I drove past there again and checked. They have pulled the cable about 250 m since yesterday.
They are pulling it through existing ducting under the road.
Unfortunately for them nobody had the foresight to leave a rope in the ducting so they are having to push drain rods through first with a rope tied on, then they are pulling the cable through with a winch on a Landrover. The cable itself was on a fairly large drum but i couldnt tell the length of it.
I expect they will have to join it together en route. I might see if i can watch them doing that, could be interesting.
If i drive any slower past these guys they are going to think i am a right pervert !!!!
There are only 2 of them doing it and the rain sleet and snow has been sideways today.
It will take them a week to get to the exchange at this rate and who knows how long it will take for it to be put in to service.
Like i have said we are pretty rural here, about 700 people live in this village so its going to take a while for them to make their money back and i was surprised to see them out this way at all.
The only major employer round here ( about 30 staff i think) is a weapons testing facility so it kind of makes sense now.
I get high speed broadband..... the rest of the world gets cluster bombs.
Im not kidding, thats what they do there and other equally shitty stuff.
So maybe a month.
I can wait.