topic Re: Cable from pole to house . in Broadband

Cable from pole to house .

edgie700 — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 20:57:52 GMT

Hi all , due to get fibre 500 B/B soon , my copper cable comes in to the house from under the ground , wondering if they might put the new cable from the pole on to my house and drop it down the brick work instead of underground??? Also ( stupid question ) but I presume the new cable is fibre optic ??? Just asking in case it gets placed next to an external aerial coax and hope it doesn't interfere with signal....thanks

Re: Cable from pole to house .

peter-marlow+1966 — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:24:07 GMT

i have gigafast broadband 900mps comes from the pole to the house to a box like this outside

and then from here to the optical network terminal box inside the house like this

Re: Cable from pole to house .

Highlinder — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:36:29 GMT

@edgie700 Could you please fill in the form from the link below. When posting the image please make sure to hide the information in the top-left corner please and then the community can look at what steps that Openreach will take to install the cable to your property. That could be from the pole or it might be underground.

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

Re: Cable from pole to house .

edgie700 — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:45:24 GMT

is that ok ?

Re: Cable from pole to house .

cookiemonsteruk — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 22:01:13 GMT

@edgie700

Looks like openreach will use the underground route as there is an existing duct. I don't believe they are likely to change that to overhead

Re: Cable from pole to house .

edgie700 — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 22:20:26 GMT

Ah right , yes there is a plastic duct from the ground against the wall, how on earth do they pass a cable underground to that , in front of that plastic duct is the garden

Re: Cable from pole to house .

cookiemonsteruk — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 22:26:16 GMT

@edgie700

Its called rod and rope . A flexible carbon fibre rod is pushed thru the duct with the fibre "rope" attached. I assume the duct leads somewhere for them to do that

Re: Cable from pole to house .

edgie700 — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 08:31:43 GMT

The pole is actually next to my house and I do have on the pavement next to my house two man hole covers , one BT and one worldwide fibre, so for ease the pole to house would be the easiest

Re: Cable from pole to house .

edgie700 — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 08:33:59 GMT

Re: Cable from pole to house .

edgie700 — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 08:37:49 GMT

BT next to my house

Re: Cable from pole to house .

TimmyBGood — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 09:37:20 GMT

@edgie700

They won't go from a pole when the survey says there's a duct: it's not just that final section which is significant, but the rest of the local distribution topology including the locations of the Connectorised Block Terminals and Passive Optical Splitters.

One might suggest that having a 21st century communications network suspended from slowly decaying timber uprights not entirely unlike a bronze-age ship mast is something of a contradiction ; )

Re: Cable from pole to house .

edgie700 — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 09:09:50 GMT

Haha gotcha , I'll be happy if they use a duct , I honestly thought it was the way they would choose ( off the pole ) but if that survey says it's a duct at least they will be prepared, thanks

Re: Cable from pole to house .

JimM1 — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 12:10:15 GMT

@edgie700 Also looks like the Fibre on the pole is not OR but someone else.

Re: Cable from pole to house .

edgie700 — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 13:37:12 GMT

Ohhhh now that I don't know , never looked or checked tbh and I've only lived here 30 years lol

Re: Cable from pole to house .

JimM1 — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 13:42:41 GMT

@edgie700 The sticking out one looks very much like what Virgin Media use for there fibre, the other one in the middle do not know who, not enough detail from expanding the picture to see, but anyhow the do not look like OR, there one will be in that ground chamber box, so when they are doing your's take a peak, always handy to know where your cable is going to!