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pair gain splitter boxes

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  • 20-05-2003 3:35pm
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    shinzon
    Registered Users Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭


    Ive read a few threads here where eircom install these boxes so its splits the line to seven different houses ETC ETC ETC, what do these boxes look like, i have a large green box situated outside my estate, tucked away so you hardly see it, and there always seems to be an eircom van parked beside it and an engineer always fiddling about with the innards

    Wish i had a digital camera so i could take a piccie of it to show you what i mean.

    just wondering is this of of these boxes

    Shin


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    spongebob
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    no, its not one of those. thats a street cabinet where a 50 pair is broken down to individual lines. its on the pavement....right.


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    Redshift
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    Probably just a street cabinet, They're all over the place and it's where your line and your neighbours lines meet to join a trunk cable which goes to the exchange. A splitter box only splits one line into two they are usually grey in colour and are about the same size as a loaf of bread they are often pole mounted or located inside a customers premises.


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    shinzon
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    thats ok then

    heres a piccie, had an old digital camera doesnt take good pics, but it sounds like what ye described


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    SkepticOne
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    Yeah, that's a standard street cabinet. Needs a bit of a paint job.


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    shinzon
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    when i fished it out i sorta went a bit mad, can anyone tell me what this is please, prolly nothing but it sounds closer to what your describing


    shin


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    Redshift
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    That either ESB or NTL or such a splitter is much smaller than that and is in a plastic housing with Multigain2000 or Spectel written on it.


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    SkepticOne
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    What did you fish it out of, Shinzon?


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    shinzon
    Registered Users Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭shinzon


    it was the webcam i was talking about skeptic, knew i had it around here somewhere lol

    oh well it was worth investigating these 2 possibilities as causes of why my line passed and then didnt for DSL

    Just have to wait for comreg to finish with their investigation of my case and get back to me

    Regards

    Shin

    Hmm i suppose while im waiting i could paint that cabinet lol

    :D


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