High Fibre

 The Gorse Fox was up and ready. It was gorgeous start to the day and BT/Openreach were due soon after 8:00. The Silver Vixen took over Ellie's school escort duty and the Gorse Fox waited for the engineer.

The first thing we discovered was that the current ducting was hidden behind some boxing. This took a great deal of effort to take apart and gain access. Then the engineer fed the flexible rod back down the duct towards the junction. It only got about 15m and then stopped. He fiddled and faffed and then called for help. Another engineer arrived. They examined the inspection ducts but could not determine what was happening. It was at this point that engineer no.2 thought it may be a junction in the duct and that the flexible rod wasn't bending on impact. He came up with a cunning plan. The rod was removed and cable ties were looped onto the end. This made it look a bit like a kitchen whisk. When this was fed back into the duct it reached the junction and the flexibility of the cable tie was enough to deflect the rod... job done. Fibre was fed back and terminated. The new connections were made and the new router was installed. He left.

The Gorse Fox spent the next hour going through the tables and checking that all the IP addresses were correct and that everything was working. He then conducted a speed test and seems to be getting a 505Mbps download speed. He's very happy with that.

This afternoon we took Jasper to the cattery. As usual he wasn't too pleased to be in his carrier, but was perfectly happy once he got there and had started his spa break.

Ellie is with us overnight tonight.