Fibre Splicing?

[talksr]

Hi,

We have a 200mbps fibre line provided by Virgin. Recently the line was chewed underground by hungry rats. It was re-instated by Virgin by way of splicing the cable.

 

Would this have any effect on our line speed? We can upgrade to a max of 500mbps.

I can't say I performed many speed tests prior to the damage caused by the rats as it always seemed more than sufficient.

[FN-GM]

Whilst my OCD wouldn't like it, you will be fine.

 

The cable will be spliced a few times, for example the connectors in your server room that you connect the patch cable in will be spliced.

[rad]

We had to be spliced after the builders went through the line. All is fine here too.

[talksr]

Thanks guys, I just hope the pesky rodents don't go and do it all over again.

 

Otherwise they may need to lay a reinforced version.

[Tefters]

We have had a few satellite switch uplinks munched a few times by rats and squirrels, had them all spliced fine with no issue.

 

It sounds worse then it really is.