Speaking of Bhell's "fib" service -- this past winter a crew bolted one of those bulgy brown boxes on to the neighbourhood distribution panel (a larger fin-shaped brown box). And this past week another crew actually hooked up power (240V) to it.

But it's still an empty brown box right now. I guess another crew will eventually arrive to populate it with the "remote" electronics for VDSL. There is no fibre anywhere near it.

This stuff is being deployed for "IP TV" service; the internet add-on is secondary (in Bhell's mind). I'm hoping to eventually get a line on the remote with my teksavvy service.

Cheers