What Are FTTP Installation Options?

[#1]

Looking for some basic information on what OR installation techs will do or are allowed to do.

I have a bungalow. My copper cable comes from a telegraph pole at the foot of my garden to the apex of my roof and the phone master socket is screwed to the wall in the loft. The broadband line goes from there through the loft the length of the house and down through a wall to the study where the modem/router and switch are.

The fibre lines are being distributed via the telegraph poles too so I guess my FTTP will come from the same pole. Would the installer be able/allowed/willing to install the ONT in the loft near where the current master socket is? (There’s a power point nearby). The reason for wondering about it is that the 2 rooms nearest the pole aren’t suitable - one is the bathroom (no power and obviously unsuitable) and the other is a dressing room with the walls fully lined with wardrobes and a radiator and no accessible power socket (there is one but above the dressing table on the side of the room opposite the outside wall). If the ONT was in the loft I could easily replace the current cable with an Ethernet one so it’d leave the rest of my wiring not needing any changes.

I’m a bit unwilling to shift to FTTP without a fair idea up front of what cabling I’d need to do to hook it up and ideally get it in place prior to the install.

[#2]

The first question is the loft easy access, boarded out, safe to work in?

If yes, the engineer on the day is the only person who can say if the ONT and possibly the CSP can go in the loft. The CSP is usually at ground level for safety reason. Would seem pointless putting the CSP at ground level if they agree to put the ONT in the loft.

Best to have plenty of biscuits and cups of tea/coffee and a willing engineer.

[#3]

@quelquod 

I assume FTTP is actually available to you. We've seen posts in the past talking about things like this when only FTTC is there.

If the loft is boarded and easy to access then I see no reason why the ONT shouldn't be put in the loft. Power's available so that's not a problem. The engineer might even agree to put the CSP in the loft beside the ONT.

As stated, you just don't know until the day.

Note that the engineer will only install the CSP and the ONT. Anything after that is your resonsibility. You would need to run an ethernet cable from the loft down to the study for the Router.

Going to FTTP will also cost you your phone line if that matters.

Brian

[#4]

As I said, FTTP  - I’ve FTTC just now but they’re stringing fibre around the poles now and my next but 1 neighbour already has it. The loft’s floored and I already have CAT6 in place as it’s the easiest way to get it round the house - across the loft and down the partition walls.

its not too handy not knowing until the actual installation as I don’t want it being stuck in some difficult-to-access corner of course. The phone (and FTTC of course) is in the loft already which is why I’m keen for the FTTP to go there too. I guess I could just cancel at the time of course?

not bothered about the phone. No one ever rings it and we don’t use it.

thanks for the info.

[#5]

From reading some terms and conditions of various ISP's, if a FTTP installation was cancelled within 2 days of installation date charges would be applicable. I know Vodafone and Sky this is the case, dont know about Plusnet

[#6]

Just picking this up again for a couple of questions. To recap I’ve a bungalow and the phone line (and FTTC of course) comes from a pole to the apex of the eves and into the loft. If possible I’d prefer the FTTP to go the same route as that’s where my internal wiring all is. It’d suit me to have both the CSP and ONT in the loft.

The apex is around 18 feet high or so - any problem with that?

How is the strain relief done? I’ve got plastic rooflines.

How bendy is the fibre from the pole to the house? Is it stiff enough to just poke through the existing gap where the phone cable (and TV coax) goes or would it need a short conduit? Is it bendy enough to poke it into the loft and down inside clipped to the timber framing?

thanks.

[#7]

@quelquod 

Because your phone supply is overhead you'll get an engineer qualified to work at height and the equipment to do so (a ladder). Note that two small holes are drilled in the wall to secure said ladder (health and safety you know what). Your fibre cable is secured to your house in the same manor as your copper phone line.

Don't know if the current cable entry point is usable but I do recall people posting in the past  saying it was used iin their property.

Fibre optic cable is not "bendy" and needs to be treated with care. Unlike copper if your twist or break the glass fibre core it stops working. It doesn't do right angled corners without sticking out.

Brian