Fibre install

If the BT ISP bit has paid the BT openreach bit for a premium install, they will allow you extra distance internally and externally

But from the "DIY" description, it sounds more like the standard install.

Hmm. I'm not using wifi for anything currently in the office.

If I split the router output with a 4 way switch can I then send that signal to a further switch to feed a wifi outlet in the loft?

Hmm. Be more useful if it could be routed along the soffit to enter the appropriate loft.

Always:-)

Hasn't the router already got 4 ports?

But yes, you can buy a standalone wifi access point, or re-purpose an old router for wifi use (care required to avoid clashing IP addrs and clashing DHCP servers)

My experience was the connection box anywhere on the front of my terrace house (at ground level) but they had no problem putting it where I wanted. However this wasn't BT, it was CityLink fibre.

At some point soon they are going to do away with copper to the premises so this is just part of the ongoing upgrade of the system.

Actually this is most likely to be my office.

Hmm. What I have were installed prior to the plaster.

Probably:-)

Ah! This is beginning to make sense. Despite TNP's concerns, the most practical incoming route will end up with the fibre terminated on the wall outside my office. The ONT and router inside. An output from the router can be fed via the existing cat6 to a switch in the loft (existing) which can feed a standalone wifi outlet and my wife's TV. It is possible that Plusnet will forget to reclaim my current router although prospective clashes are a bit concerning.

So my only urgent job is to fit a couple of extra sockets!

Thanks all.

They will forget, in future BT probably won't

Zen just sent me a new router which is only a update of the router I already had. The main difference is that the new router supports Wi-Fi 6. I still have the old one, they probably didn't want it back because they are now only supplying the latest models.

We recently had fibre installed.

The old copper wire came over to the front left corner of the house, dropped down to ground floor window level and came in to the master socket there. A broadband extension then lead under the floor, to the back left of the house and into the conservatory, where our router, switch and home-server are located.

The copper became redundant when we switched to Virgin. They ran coax to the front of the house and connected it to coax that I'd already run under the floor. They were happy to then terminate my coax and put their router on it, at the back.

When we switched to fibre, I told OpenReach's technician that I needed it at the back of the house. He simply fitted a screw-in eye on the side of the house, near the back, ran the fibre straight from pole to it and then along the wall and around the corner to the conservatory.

They seem to be quite flexible on where you want it.

Yes, but I cant see why you would need 2 switches

Hope you have a punchdown tool!

Sounds like that's a plan anyway.

If its plasterboard, cut some holes and drag it trough. If its plaster over block, chip out some channels

In both case make good and a lick of matching paint

I do although I have long forgotten which colours go where!

At least the office will work and the house will have some wifi while I sort out the rest.

Something to feed the wife's TV.

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Haha. You don't have to live with someone who follows you around with a brush and pan!

Anyway, I think the proposed layout will work.

An unmentioned downside is that my office doubles as my bedroom. A fresh crop of flashing leds is not welcome!

That's why the internet and youtube exist :)

It's possible to pay £40 for an Openreach 'premium install', where they'll do more internal work like running cables inside. Well worth it IMHO if you want to put the ONT somewhere that isn't the front of the house.

Theo