topic Re: Sky full fibre installation external boxes in Broadband

Sky full fibre installation external boxes

Rivs — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:12:13 GMT

Good morning can anyone tell me why I have 2 external boxes rather than one like my son for full fibre and would this be detrimental to the fibre speed.

Re: Sky full fibre installation external boxes

Chrisee — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:17:12 GMT

@Rivs the box on the left is the connection point between the fibre from the street to the connection to the internal ONT. The one on the right looks to be weatherproof connection for the hole into your home. It should not affect speeds at all. Not sure why the engineer used that method it is more common in satellite downleads, the Openreach engineer who installed my line used a clever two part plastic fitment with a dab of silicone.

Re: Sky full fibre installation external boxes

TimmyBGood — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:31:14 GMT

@Rivs

As @Chrisee says, the unit on the right is a cable entry hole cover, not a box. It's over the opening for the optical pigtail going inside the property to the ONT, which is fusion spliced to one strand of the main cable within the CSP box on the left. A circular cap is more usual, but that one should work just fine.

Re: Sky full fibre installation external boxes

Rivs — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:14:04 GMT

Thanks for the clarification cheers