OT Fibre connection

Possibly waiting for a connection to the outside world

That's what happened here. Although BT is my telephone provider, my internet supplier is K-Com (throuh Orpheus) - but OpenReach did the instalation.

It can be worth searching for "superfast <name of county>" to see if there is a country superfast broadband page.

So for example, ours is

Also worth noting that while you have a choice of ISPs in most places, not all the ISPs do FTTP.

A few months ago Lightspeed Broadband installed some kind of junction boxes on top of all telegraph poles near my parents' house, they shoved a leaflet through the door advertising 1Gb speeds, I just used their postcode checker and they claim it's not available ...

Yes:

Box on the wall outside for the street fibre to terminate Fibre pigtail goes inside ONT box converts fibre to ethernet (needs power) Ethernet to ISP's router

Some 'altnets' who run their own fibre converge the ONT and router into a single box which they own, although typically there's an opt-out so you can put your own router behind if you want that.

Theo

And what an Openreach engineer told me recently. The Hybrid Fibre/Copper option is now not favoured, not least because all of OR's new recruits have no 'copper' skills

Bandwidth or latency? (Lot of confusion by talking about "speed".)

Basically yes, the main fibre will come down the outside wall, into a termination box, then a more flexible fibre will go through the wall indoors, and plug into a powered ONT, which will provide a 1Gb ethernet to your router (and maybe, or maybe not) a phone socket for VoIP.

If your router is provided by your ISP, it also may (or may not) have a phone socket for VoIP.

Some ISPs don't provide VoIP, if you want a phone, it's up to you to buy the service from someone else ...

Almost certainly, either physically or virtually

Its certainly not what my ISP or the openreach engineer told me a year ago

Sounds to me like plusnet, being BT owned, are being economical with the truth.

'Not favoured' does not mean 'not available'

On 08/06/2022 10:12, Tim Streater wrote: .

FTTP installation practice is constantly evolving (or, if you like, being 'dumbed down')

As said, the information Robin heard from Plusnet, and I heard from an Openreach installation engineer (but, what does he know eh ?) is as stated

Very similar to when FTTP was installed here - but the workmanship was neater here in that the outside box covers the point of entry to the inside and a small round box covers the internal access point before linking through to the rest as you show it.

Maybe my offers of tea/coffee and biscuits/ Christmas* cake were more generous than yours?

Theres no indication of anything happening at all, here. We have FTTC with tha cab being about 400 metres down the road (I can just see it from upstairs). At the mo, copper from that comes to a pole down the road which supplies the five houses here, cable is then strung via poles to out house and enters at the eave. I'm assuming that any fibre would therefore be strung in the same manner and would then *not* go down the wall to a box at ground level; there'd be no point, as fibre from it would just have tyo go back *up* the wall to enter at the eave again. Everything is upstairs, so fibre can enter at the eave and the fibre termination box can be in the attic along with the ONT.

Haven't offered anything to anybody at this point as no installs of FTTP have been sought or offered. It's just that my home office is being redecorated and with new floor covering, so I'm taking the opportunity to have a floor pocket put in for power, phone, and the ethernet to the downstairs telly. Trying to figure if there's anything else that could be put in during this process to future proof for when FTTP arrives.

For the overhead cable to be held on my house, a "cherry picker" was needed. I don't think they like ladders anymore.

You need one more mains socket than you use at present.

Perhaps multiple ethernet cables, and run them in duct so you could potentially route a fibre through there if you wanted? You likely couldn't use a premade cable unless the duct was large, but should be possible to push a fibre through and splice a connector on the end when in place.

You could pre-run some fibre just in case, but I'm not clear on what kind of fibre they are installing - singlemode or multimode, what wavelength they use, and whether those vary from site to site. Although there is something to be said for running some OM3 / OM4 / OM5 which you could use internally.

Theo