Broadband Fibre to the Property Question (FTTP)
Sept 20, 2022 19:51:24 GMT
Post by Rob on Sept 20, 2022 19:51:24 GMT
Anyone had FTTP installed or know of someone. Around here as most places it would be BT Openreach's FTTP whoever you get the bill from. The only difference is the hub/router.
I held off doing anything because I thought we might have sold up and moved by now but still looking to where to base ourselves in the UK. We want a change here.
So instead of just getting a better deal for FTTC which would be a swap of VDSL modem/router it now seems I cannot avoid FTTP. Well they have been really busy here lately.
Some of my questions related to how much internal work they will do. Our BT Infinity FTTC install in 2010 replaced the 'master socket' with the new one and then they routed a twisted pair telephone type wire to upstairs to install the router there. But the actual 'master socket' is still the old style in the cellar from where a cable goes to under the corner of the hall floor and into the new 'master socket'.
So I am hoping they could route the external black fibre inside to put the box inside and then take the smaller/thinner white fibre cable up into the hall to the new ONT socket. From there someone (them? me?) would need to route a CAT6 Ethernet cable upstairs to the office which is not that difficult. I could have done a better job than they did in 2010 but now it's CAT6 and not a phone line/socket which needed tools.
The other query relates to the phone now being over the Internet so you need to plug the phones/phoneline into the back of the router.
I wish 2 months ago I swapped to say Vodafone for FTTC which was all that was available then.
I held off doing anything because I thought we might have sold up and moved by now but still looking to where to base ourselves in the UK. We want a change here.
So instead of just getting a better deal for FTTC which would be a swap of VDSL modem/router it now seems I cannot avoid FTTP. Well they have been really busy here lately.
Some of my questions related to how much internal work they will do. Our BT Infinity FTTC install in 2010 replaced the 'master socket' with the new one and then they routed a twisted pair telephone type wire to upstairs to install the router there. But the actual 'master socket' is still the old style in the cellar from where a cable goes to under the corner of the hall floor and into the new 'master socket'.
So I am hoping they could route the external black fibre inside to put the box inside and then take the smaller/thinner white fibre cable up into the hall to the new ONT socket. From there someone (them? me?) would need to route a CAT6 Ethernet cable upstairs to the office which is not that difficult. I could have done a better job than they did in 2010 but now it's CAT6 and not a phone line/socket which needed tools.
The other query relates to the phone now being over the Internet so you need to plug the phones/phoneline into the back of the router.
I wish 2 months ago I swapped to say Vodafone for FTTC which was all that was available then.
