Splashee
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I walked down the road to the where I heard the cable broke during the Dennis storm, and found it. This is the telephone cable that my ADSL is taking to the telephone station:
The photo is blurred because it was very dark, and I used a flashlight. Looks like there are 100 pairs in there. It will take a while reattach every single (copper) wire. Shouldn't be too difficult if you know what you are doing. But the pole that broke also had a street lamp, and there were a lot of other fiber cables as well (the fiber cables are to blame + Dennis storm, they were attached by idiots, heavy and have broken poles before).
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@Deerie Some cables do. But it is cheaper to have them over ground on poles.
The problem is not the old cables (they have been through storms for decades), it is the new ones: A different company put up too heavy fiber (fast internet) cables on the same poles as the old ones, and they are moving too much in the wind/storm they cause the poles to break. They didn't dig the new cables down, to save money, and they saved even more money by putting the cables on the old poles as well.
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@Splashee yeah i know nothing about this lol
I just know everything is underground here -
@Bas The company takes care of it. I am just there to hack the telephone lines and get free calls
