FTTP 500 Install

[Brugie58]

Hello All

At last, we have some more FTTP in Truro

So Openreach have been and installed the cable from the pole to the house, the final install is being completed on the 3rd of January by a Sky engineer

My Question is, how accommodating are the Sky Engineers?

I need the cable to come from the CSP,  then go through the wall into the loft where I can assist by pulling through and down a 20mm solid tube to my office below where I will install a "Brush Plate" where the cable can come out to the ONT

Thanks 

[TimmyBGood]

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@Brugie58 wrote:

I need the cable to come from the CSP,  then go through the wall into the loft where I can assist by pulling through and down a 20mm solid tube to my office below where I will install a "Brush Plate" where the cable can come out to the ONT

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Sky has only been carrying out second stage installs for a short time so it's difficult to say.  What you are describing is outside the remit of a 'standard' installation though, and Sky personnel typically won't either drill into or enter unconverted loft space.

[Brugie58]

It's a bungalow, so the height of the hole will only be about 10' from the ground

I will personally go in the loft and pull the cable through and down the tube, I can't see this being a problem.

I did the same thing when my Sky Q was installed, the engineer drilled the hole, and I pulled the cable through to above and into the lounge 

[TimmyBGood]

@Brugie58 

Realistically it will be up to the installer who attends.  One significant factor is that coaxial cable for satellite reception is rather more robust that a fibre-optic pigtail.

[Brugie58]

@TimmyBGood 

True, although fibre optic cable is not as fragile as people think, it can't have any sharp bends though

[TimmyBGood · Accepted solution]

@Brugie58 

The optical pigtail also doesn't have any strain relief other than its own sheathing, so can't be pulled with any significant force.

[Brugie58]

So, it's all up and running now !

Took a few days, Openreach unfortunately had my connection on the wrong splitter, but to their credit it was fixed quickly

[Chrisee]

@Brugie58 as a data point can you tell us if the engineer did as you asked and used the loft and conduit or as I would have expected ran the cable down the external wall and drilled through near where the ONT was to be mounted?

[Brugie58]

On the install day I changed my mind how we were going to do it from my original plan, so we ran the cable from the CSP along the wall on the outside straight though into my office 

[Chrisee]

@Brugie58 thank you for that.

I was told running the connection externally is preferrred due in part to the miimum radius curves that have to be used. My own connection was run from the ONT to the CSP not the other way round due I suspect to the fitment that plugs into the ONT was already on the made up cable. 

[Brugie58]

Yes, the plug was pre-fitted on the cable, so it would have been a pain in the butt feeding it via my original plan

Luckily, the fibre comes in exactly where I wanted it, so all good in the end 

All running on my Draytek 2865 router, will post set up guide for this when I some spare time 

[TimmyBGood]

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@Chrisee wrote:

@Brugie58

the fitment that plugs into the ONT was already on the made up cable. 

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Strictly speaking it's a simplex single-mode 9/125 OS2 fibre pigtail preterminated with an SC APC plug.

/pedantic