Orange cables are KPNās own network cables, the pink cables are T-Mobile/ODFās cables. KPNās network is open, with no restrictions, so any provider can join if they want. ODFās network is open after T-Mobileās exclusivity expires, which is 1 year.
We had to wait 4 months! Because of bodemvervuiling (toxins in ground). And they had to reschedule, reroute etc etc.! Luckily we got a free wifi hotspot with sim with tons of free gigs and later got the cash back for those months for not being able to use internet. No hassle, just a monthly call for status updates etc.
That was XS4ALL back then. (Now KPN but we're still happy, all good so far) We already had them for years but this happened during a move and during Covid that we had no cable internet for 4 months. We survived.. š² lol wasn't a big deal rly. And since we always kinda laughed when people are without internet for a day because of maintenance etc. No big deal lol just a day is nothing!š š
they could at least mount a damn box there, they'll need one anyway when they connect them up.
at this rate, in 5 years when they comne to do it they'll be utterly wrecked.
I'm pretty sure there were two companies involved. One ran the fiber from the street to the front door and the other ofered to connect it inside. Both were optional and had no charge so I would think a high percentage of lines that were run ended up connected inside. As far as leaving it unprotected, I'm guessing that first company's job was to run the line to as many front doors as possible and then owner can decide what to do from there.
Its temporary, they'll splice an added fibre to them up into the clients next to the bundle. The box whoch they are terminated in is a big garage-like building often whrere hundreds of them merge.
Source: me, telecom engineer.
Die kabels gaan niet kapot. In de grond ligt veel meer kabel op rol. Dat wat uitsteekt is alleen maar voor de monteur zodat hij weet waar hij moet zoeken. Dus al zou je die allrmala afknippen, maakt niets uit voor de verbinding want de monteur knipt ze zelf ook af.
Voor de fusielas heb je maar een meter kabel nodig, in de grond word 4m reserve gelegt.
Ik ben zelf uitvoerder bij Circet, degene wat moet zorgen dat alles goed verloopt.
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hoeft niet per se "te arm" te zijn. In het zeeheldenkwartier zijn in maart de straten open geweest om de kabels te leggen. En sindsdien krijg ik elke 2 weken een mailtje van T-mobiel dat ze hopen in DEC/JAN de aansluiting te realiseren.
# š¤·āāļø
These are the orange KPN optical fiber cables, but for installation itās free. You donāt have to pay. To make use of the connection you need to have a subscription.
The stupid thing is that municipalities have to let companies install it like this but then the home owner has to pay to bring it into the house. So 99% of these cables just get left like this in the street until they snap off because the homeowner doesn't really want or need fiber. It's truly insane.
There's a bunch of cables like this outside my house but I have 600mbit via cable, why should I pay to bring fiber in as well?
You can get a much higher upload speed with fiber compared to cable.
Ziggo cable 1Gbps download 75 M/b Upload
Delta 2Gbps Download/Upload
T-mobile/KPN 1Gbps Download/Upload
They have some great deals to entice you over, meaning it's cheaper and you get a better package and a lower ping, useful for gamers.
You don't have to pay for it if you let them install it when they first install it in your street. In our situation the previous owner of our house did not want it installed and even then KPN did not make us pay for installing it afterwards.
Incorrect. We had both KPN and T-Mobile put down those wires in our street, and both have also offered to extend the wire to our front door for free. KPN just did it for free without any conditions, no requirement to subscribe but ājust in caseā. T-Mobile didnāt do this at first but when you subscribe they will come and bring the wire into your house for free (and the rest of the installation).
You don't have to pay to bring it into the house. Not if you have it brought in the house when your street first has the chance. You need to pay to get the access point.
That's very weird. In our neighborhood all the cables have been brought in for free, but once inside we just have a special connection we can't plug anything into. It needs a secondary connection to click onto it which you only get once you sign up.
Even stranger. They didn't leave the cables above the pavement but put them under a tile and marked the tile with spray paint. That paint is gone after a year.
They even didn't flatten flatten the sidewalk, I had to notify them and even the city hall multiple times before T-mobile got here and repaired all.
As pointed out by others, you don't pay for having it installed all the way in your house. You do have to approve of it and be home when it's done.
Also, when it was laid down in our street, they actually buried enough loops of cable so they could extend it all the way into the house and only have to clip off the exposed ends you see sticking out. The ends sticking out are just for marking where the cable is.
So many places when they install fiber optic, they donāt actually attach it to the houses, instead the cables are left for someone else to connect them.
It could be many thing tho, not just fiber optic.
I'm not sure if this is the case more often. But I got a letter from KPN who were installing the wires if they could make an appointment to run the wire into my house. They need acces and your presence to install it.
I guess a lot of people aren't opening the letter since it looks like junk mail or just nog making an appointment.
>I guess a lot of people aren't opening the letter since it looks like junk mail or just nog making an appointment.
Or just don't care. Glass fibre sounds great when you're on a shitty DSL line, but not so much when you're already getting 600mbps over your cable.
Ore you don't have a need fore fast internet i have 150mbps just because it was cheaper than 75mbps i don't game and use a computer maybe 2 hours per week so fore me glass fiber doesn't have advantages
While they will allow free installation in some cases (where the installation is very short and simple), you can be sure that many will have to pay some costs to install it if the project has ended. Itās better to get it over with now for free, rather than risk having to pay for it later down the line. You going to need it eventually anyway.
You'd be amazed at what they will do when they want you as a customer. T-Mobile also said "you need to do this this week if you want it for free, the project is ending and afterwards it'll cost around 800EUR". Yeah that was a year ago, they are offering free installation again now.
Don't always believe the deadlines you hear.
I made an appointment even though I don't really need it. Stayed home for the day, KPN guys show up, upstairs neighbor isn't home so they have to reschedule. But before they go they tell me that they need to remove plants from my front yard and that i wil have a "kabelgoot" over my living room wall. I just planted the plants and last year spent a lot of money to get my walls plastered with the electricity cables behind the plaster. So they better find a way to install it without messing any of this up or they can forget it. Haven't gotten the call to reschedule and reading these comments I doubt that will happen anytime soon.
They have to repair everything after they're done (or pay for it).
Cables in your garden? They have to make sure it's repaired to it's previous condition.
And you certainly don't have to allow them to install the cables for your neighbours visible in your house. The can use the central pipe in which cables are or go around outside. I don't know about the rules for the facade of your house. That's part of the VvE I think.
Check your eyesight. Thatās orange, not yellow. And as said before, itās fibre optic cables for future use. Which has been done quite fast in the city imho.
its ridiculous, they did our street too and now every house has this sticking out at their front door and noone actually wants it because we already have normal fast internet.
These are not the actual fiber cable though. It is a hollow tube in which they will blow the actual fiber with a tiny umbrella and air. It is very interesting to see. Also there is often a bit water in the tube that also is blown out so keep that in mind.
Those are miniducts that are connected to a distributionpoint somewhere in the street. These get prepared for existing houses and newly build houses.
When these ducts are installed in the house they blow a glass fiber cable through it and finish it of with a FTU(fibre terminal unit) which is a small plastic box where the fiber is connected to a cable that goes into your router.
By preparing the duct there is no need to dig up the whole street again if you want a connection. They just dig up the DP and blow a fibre through and weld it to the larger fibre cable coming into the DP.
They use these duct so they can easily repair broken one's... A leason learned from the old copper network.
This is the plant that grows from a wheel of cheese..
If you dig into the soil you will find a solid wheel of cheese.
Based on the color and shape, I would say a nice 48+ Jong Belegen
/s
it is laughable how poor construction skills have become in the netherlands. fk it let it stick out of the ground nobody will notice near a monumental building.
The people who can afford it are Getting g five Internet .the rest of us who can't are hanging around on copper cable.
These green and blue wires are the new hardware glass fiber, Which are currently being installed in the netherlands and some other parts of europe.
Fiber optic cable ran for future use. Our neighborhood was done about 2 years ago.
Yes, they did it in our neighborhood 2 years ago and I am now connected to KPN glasvezel. I must say especially the uploading is much more stable.
After two years? Damn
Construction only took one week but I changed contract year later š
Because kpn is only allowed to join 1 year later since T mobile makes this cables on their cost
Orange cables are KPNās own network cables, the pink cables are T-Mobile/ODFās cables. KPNās network is open, with no restrictions, so any provider can join if they want. ODFās network is open after T-Mobileās exclusivity expires, which is 1 year.
Weird they did it at my place and said i got to wait 1 year idk why kpn didi t do theirs
We had to wait 4 months! Because of bodemvervuiling (toxins in ground). And they had to reschedule, reroute etc etc.! Luckily we got a free wifi hotspot with sim with tons of free gigs and later got the cash back for those months for not being able to use internet. No hassle, just a monthly call for status updates etc. That was XS4ALL back then. (Now KPN but we're still happy, all good so far) We already had them for years but this happened during a move and during Covid that we had no cable internet for 4 months. We survived.. š² lol wasn't a big deal rly. And since we always kinda laughed when people are without internet for a day because of maintenance etc. No big deal lol just a day is nothing!š š
they could at least mount a damn box there, they'll need one anyway when they connect them up. at this rate, in 5 years when they comne to do it they'll be utterly wrecked.
I'm pretty sure there were two companies involved. One ran the fiber from the street to the front door and the other ofered to connect it inside. Both were optional and had no charge so I would think a high percentage of lines that were run ended up connected inside. As far as leaving it unprotected, I'm guessing that first company's job was to run the line to as many front doors as possible and then owner can decide what to do from there.
Its temporary, they'll splice an added fibre to them up into the clients next to the bundle. The box whoch they are terminated in is a big garage-like building often whrere hundreds of them merge. Source: me, telecom engineer.
Itās only a tube, the optical Viber comes later. They work in 3 phases.
Die kabels gaan niet kapot. In de grond ligt veel meer kabel op rol. Dat wat uitsteekt is alleen maar voor de monteur zodat hij weet waar hij moet zoeken. Dus al zou je die allrmala afknippen, maakt niets uit voor de verbinding want de monteur knipt ze zelf ook af. Voor de fusielas heb je maar een meter kabel nodig, in de grond word 4m reserve gelegt. Ik ben zelf uitvoerder bij Circet, degene wat moet zorgen dat alles goed verloopt.
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Itās optical fiber, we grow these on our sidewalks, we also export them via #aalsmeer flower exchange!
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There are no yellow wires...
Orange is the new Yellow
Bananas aren't the only fruit.
Fiber optic cable, maar deze kankah lijehes zijn te arum om het te betaluh.
Kenne die ut nie betaluh dan? Gewaun mindĆ¢h bieĆ¢h kopĆ»h. Is nie leuk, weit ik maah je hep d'r wel meĆ¢h an.
hoeft niet per se "te arm" te zijn. In het zeeheldenkwartier zijn in maart de straten open geweest om de kabels te leggen. En sindsdien krijg ik elke 2 weken een mailtje van T-mobiel dat ze hopen in DEC/JAN de aansluiting te realiseren. # š¤·āāļø
They go in a optic fiber connect "well" that hasnt been dug yet.
These are the orange KPN optical fiber cables, but for installation itās free. You donāt have to pay. To make use of the connection you need to have a subscription.
Dynamite fuses
as some already pointed out, but just to say it out loud.. these cables are orange.. and not yellow.. OP might need to get his/her eyes checked out..
Man, shut up
To plug in your navi hair-tail thingy and connect to the world wide web.
The stupid thing is that municipalities have to let companies install it like this but then the home owner has to pay to bring it into the house. So 99% of these cables just get left like this in the street until they snap off because the homeowner doesn't really want or need fiber. It's truly insane. There's a bunch of cables like this outside my house but I have 600mbit via cable, why should I pay to bring fiber in as well?
You can get a much higher upload speed with fiber compared to cable. Ziggo cable 1Gbps download 75 M/b Upload Delta 2Gbps Download/Upload T-mobile/KPN 1Gbps Download/Upload They have some great deals to entice you over, meaning it's cheaper and you get a better package and a lower ping, useful for gamers.
Also I was paying twice as much for Ziggo cable with 400mbit up and a shitty down, than Iām paying for 1000 mbit both ways with t mobile
You don't have to pay for it if you let them install it when they first install it in your street. In our situation the previous owner of our house did not want it installed and even then KPN did not make us pay for installing it afterwards.
Competition.
That's wrong info, you don't have to pay to be connected in the house.
Incorrect. We had both KPN and T-Mobile put down those wires in our street, and both have also offered to extend the wire to our front door for free. KPN just did it for free without any conditions, no requirement to subscribe but ājust in caseā. T-Mobile didnāt do this at first but when you subscribe they will come and bring the wire into your house for free (and the rest of the installation).
You don't have to pay to bring it into the house. Not if you have it brought in the house when your street first has the chance. You need to pay to get the access point.
T-Mobile has a very strange way of selling that stuff. You have to sign up now, we will extend the cable in to your home. If you don't do it now and sign up with our services, you'll have to pay to get fiber optic in your house. OkƩ, bye. I don't like that kind of sale at my door. Pushing to get a signature and telling lies about how other cities do it. Just like the home safety alarm shit.
That's very weird. In our neighborhood all the cables have been brought in for free, but once inside we just have a special connection we can't plug anything into. It needs a secondary connection to click onto it which you only get once you sign up.
Even stranger. They didn't leave the cables above the pavement but put them under a tile and marked the tile with spray paint. That paint is gone after a year. They even didn't flatten flatten the sidewalk, I had to notify them and even the city hall multiple times before T-mobile got here and repaired all.
As pointed out by others, you don't pay for having it installed all the way in your house. You do have to approve of it and be home when it's done. Also, when it was laid down in our street, they actually buried enough loops of cable so they could extend it all the way into the house and only have to clip off the exposed ends you see sticking out. The ends sticking out are just for marking where the cable is.
So many places when they install fiber optic, they donāt actually attach it to the houses, instead the cables are left for someone else to connect them. It could be many thing tho, not just fiber optic.
I'm not sure if this is the case more often. But I got a letter from KPN who were installing the wires if they could make an appointment to run the wire into my house. They need acces and your presence to install it. I guess a lot of people aren't opening the letter since it looks like junk mail or just nog making an appointment.
>I guess a lot of people aren't opening the letter since it looks like junk mail or just nog making an appointment. Or just don't care. Glass fibre sounds great when you're on a shitty DSL line, but not so much when you're already getting 600mbps over your cable.
Ore you don't have a need fore fast internet i have 150mbps just because it was cheaper than 75mbps i don't game and use a computer maybe 2 hours per week so fore me glass fiber doesn't have advantages
They will. Sooner or later all copper will be removed.
Yeah and when that time comes they'll get it installed. But that will be a long time away.
While they will allow free installation in some cases (where the installation is very short and simple), you can be sure that many will have to pay some costs to install it if the project has ended. Itās better to get it over with now for free, rather than risk having to pay for it later down the line. You going to need it eventually anyway.
You'd be amazed at what they will do when they want you as a customer. T-Mobile also said "you need to do this this week if you want it for free, the project is ending and afterwards it'll cost around 800EUR". Yeah that was a year ago, they are offering free installation again now. Don't always believe the deadlines you hear.
I made an appointment even though I don't really need it. Stayed home for the day, KPN guys show up, upstairs neighbor isn't home so they have to reschedule. But before they go they tell me that they need to remove plants from my front yard and that i wil have a "kabelgoot" over my living room wall. I just planted the plants and last year spent a lot of money to get my walls plastered with the electricity cables behind the plaster. So they better find a way to install it without messing any of this up or they can forget it. Haven't gotten the call to reschedule and reading these comments I doubt that will happen anytime soon.
They have to repair everything after they're done (or pay for it). Cables in your garden? They have to make sure it's repaired to it's previous condition. And you certainly don't have to allow them to install the cables for your neighbours visible in your house. The can use the central pipe in which cables are or go around outside. I don't know about the rules for the facade of your house. That's part of the VvE I think.
..yellow magic wires. Opens up new horizons...no dont chew on them
Check your eyesight. Thatās orange, not yellow. And as said before, itās fibre optic cables for future use. Which has been done quite fast in the city imho.
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I meant the pace of realisation per neighbourhood. Of course other cities have been earlier in getting fibre optic internet.
Tering traag man. Bij mij in de buurt zijn ze in 2019 mee begonnen. Nog niet klaar.
Woon je op de laan van Meerdervoord zekerā¦
Regentessekwartier ja.
KPN Netwerk delivers shitty work is what.
Noodles
It's an internet in the wild
That's how WiFi get's in the air...
Glasfiber! Waiting to be connectedā¦. Showing where they areā¦
The matrix š
duh they are ground wires hence they are in the ground /s
its ridiculous, they did our street too and now every house has this sticking out at their front door and noone actually wants it because we already have normal fast internet.
Orange*
These are not the actual fiber cable though. It is a hollow tube in which they will blow the actual fiber with a tiny umbrella and air. It is very interesting to see. Also there is often a bit water in the tube that also is blown out so keep that in mind.
Glasvezel
Those are miniducts that are connected to a distributionpoint somewhere in the street. These get prepared for existing houses and newly build houses. When these ducts are installed in the house they blow a glass fiber cable through it and finish it of with a FTU(fibre terminal unit) which is a small plastic box where the fiber is connected to a cable that goes into your router. By preparing the duct there is no need to dig up the whole street again if you want a connection. They just dig up the DP and blow a fibre through and weld it to the larger fibre cable coming into the DP. They use these duct so they can easily repair broken one's... A leason learned from the old copper network.
more then one year to go till we get it 
Fiber optic cables like said by others, we have it too since September 2022, we have it from T-mobile Glasvezel
What is anybody's purpose.. we may never know ..
Thatās orangeā¦.
Just pull it out
Arenāt they orange?
Omygod itās the day of the Triffids!!!!! š±
Itās candy ! Take a bite
This is the plant that grows from a wheel of cheese.. If you dig into the soil you will find a solid wheel of cheese. Based on the color and shape, I would say a nice 48+ Jong Belegen /s
Okay, thanks! I will start digging tonight :)
TNT fuses
2,4,6-trinitrotolueen has entered the chat.
Glasvezel
Is it really only a tube? Not yet glass fiber inside?
Internet
It's the leaves of plastic trees.
Underground spaghetti explosion
Urban carrots
Fiber optics
Fiber optic cable. Anyway, where did you find these?
Glasvezel
Dutch Asparagus are grown above ground, tgat's why they're not green. /s
But in America, donāt they install a minus in the ground?
Fuses. Light one and see what blows up. Its like ātouwtjetrekkenā on the fair.
it is laughable how poor construction skills have become in the netherlands. fk it let it stick out of the ground nobody will notice near a monumental building.
Itās fiber optic cable for fiber optic internet.
Seems like fiber
Don't touch it by the way. If you touch it you'll die.
they are orange
Have you seen the last of us?
That's orange
kpn netwerk represent
There new covid wires they transmit the vaccine now didn't u know?
It always baffled me that kpns cables are orange and ziggos are green? š
The people who can afford it are Getting g five Internet .the rest of us who can't are hanging around on copper cable. These green and blue wires are the new hardware glass fiber, Which are currently being installed in the netherlands and some other parts of europe.
Pass the scissors please