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    Fibre, meet Not Spot.

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    Ben
    , 4th November 2011 at 07:24 PM (Ben's Talk3G Blog)
    It happened.

    Friday 28th October was the eventual glorious day when the etherflow was provisioned by my ISP Spitfire, following a 'fit and test' by Openreach on the 26th. The gear they've installed is rather nice; just a single fibre is used these days for transmit and receive, with 3 spares, and the fibre modem, or "BT NTE", has dual power supplies for redundancy and 21CN (21st Century Network) branding. It supports redundant fibre inputs, but the spare isn't being used ...
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    Fibre to the Not Spot

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    Ben
    , 20th January 2011 at 11:35 AM (Ben's Talk3G Blog)
    There's a theme that has driven me all my life. At nursery school I'd connect together all the toys. The staff said this wasn't a problem in itself, but it did become problematic when, post connection, I'd disallow any of the other children to play with them. Paper cups and string. Fairy lights were amazing to me; all those little bulbs connected up together. When a friend, for reasons that still escape me, was given a pager by his parents I was truly misty-eyed and, admittedly, incredibly jealous ...

    Updated 20th January 2011 at 01:36 PM by Ben

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