topic Re: Drilling location in Full Fibre

Drilling location

albridge — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 12:17:38 GMT

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to receive the go-ahead for the drilling from my landlord and he wants to know, where exactly they going to make a hole. I realise that it is hardly may be specified before the engineer visit, but may be some rules or best practices are known? For example, may I choose any room and any external wall of the flat or it should be strictly the shortest path from the existing fiber equipment?

Re: Drilling location

jab1 — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 12:23:19 GMT

@albridge Is this an overhead or underground link? Which floor are you on?

Re: Drilling location

albridge — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 12:27:57 GMT

It is the first floor of the four-storey house.

Re: Drilling location

jab1 — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 12:29:46 GMT

Is it an underground or overhead (pole) feed?

Re: Drilling location

albridge — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 12:53:12 GMT

I have no idea. How can I check it?

Re: Drilling location

jab1 — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 12:59:37 GMT

OK. How is your current connection made - overhead or underground. I'm no great expert on FTTP, but if it is underground,I think you should see a sheath on the building at ground level.

@MisterW - help. 😉

Re: Drilling location

MisterW — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 13:03:32 GMT

If there's a wire going from a telegraph pole to the house , then it's overhead

Where is the current master socket located ?

Re: Drilling location

bmc — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 13:22:56 GMT

@albridge

Put your phone number in the following. You need to see WBC FTTP in the left hand column.

https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/#/ADSL

More to the point for this topic is look below the results window. There should be a narrative about FTTP including UG or OH feed and if any problems are expected.

Brian

Re: Drilling location

albridge — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 14:56:58 GMT

Thank you for the answers. Unfortunately my landlord finally declined to drill any wall. Instead he suggests to set up the Internet using the existing Openreach BT box.
I have just entered the UK and some things are new for me here, therefore I want to ask what should I do further. The box looks like the phone line for me, hovewer I don't have phone number. Can Plusnet set up the the Internet in this case? Should I cancel the engineer's visit or change something in my order?

Re: Drilling location

jab1 — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 14:59:37 GMT

Can get the phone number - you must have known it to be able to place the order, anyway?

Re: Drilling location

bmc — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 15:15:29 GMT

@albridge

Try an alternative version of the Checker.

https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/#/ADSL/AddressHome

Enter your Post Code only and select your address from the drop down list.

Brian

Re: Drilling location

MisterW — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 15:24:25 GMT

you must have known it to be able to place the order, anyway?

Not necessarily if it was an FTTP order.

Unfortunately my landlord finally declined to drill any wall. Instead he suggests to set up the Internet using the existing Openreach BT box.

If WBC FTTP is available, then that might not be possible! If the exchange is Fibre priority then no orders for copper based products will be accepted by Openreach

As @bmc suggested , a look at the results from the checker would be useful

Re: Drilling location

jab1 — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 15:27:25 GMT

@MisterW Didn't think of your first point - sorry. Not quite up to speed with the FTTP route yet, as is still about three years away - if I'm lucky - for me.

Re: Drilling location

albridge — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 16:20:25 GMT

@bmc, @MisterW thanks for the link and for the explanation.

WBC FTTP is available, but the exchange is not in a current fibre priority programme. VDSL is available. Does it means I can set up the Internet using the existing line and equipment as my landlord wants? What changes should I make in my FTTP order?

Re: Drilling location

jab1 — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 16:27:46 GMT

@albridge I'll leave it to @bmc / @MisterW to answer, but I am a little confused. That doesn't sound quite correct to me. Could you post a screenshot of where you got that information, obscuring any phone number/address, please?

Re: Drilling location

MisterW — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 16:28:21 GMT

You're probably best ringing customer options 0800 013 2632 explain that your landlord won't allow drilling of holes and ask to change your order to FTTC(vdsl). Thaft will connect to the existing Openreach socket

Re: Drilling location

jab1 — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 16:30:15 GMT

@MisterW Will OR accept an FTTC order on an FTTP area?

Re: Drilling location

MisterW — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 16:33:39 GMT

As long as the exchange is not 'Fibre priority' , then yes

Re: Drilling location

albridge — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 16:41:47 GMT

@jab1 here is it

Re: Drilling location

MisterW — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 16:56:55 GMT

Those are pretty good estimates for FTTC. You should get close to the maximum 80/20 on the Fibre Unlimited Extra product

If you still really wanted to risk FTTP, Openreach would probably be able to use the existing cable route and hole I the wall, replacing the master socket with the FTTP ONT .

The landlord is going to have to allow it sooner or later because the exchange will likely go fibre priority in the near future.