New Sky Fibre Installation

[Mark214]

Hi.

I am installing sky fibre for first time this week.  This will be brought  into the front of my house. However my router is currently at the back of my house connected to the current BT box and a smart hub system which distributes internal cat5 cabling to Ethernet ports in each room of the house. I therefore need to keep my router at the back of the house alongside this smart hub. 

In the room where the new fibre installation will be brought in from outside  is one of those Ethernet ports which connects back to the smart hub by internal cat5 cabling. 

Can I use that Ethernet port to connect by a cat5 cable to the ONT at the front of the house on the wall to then feed everything back to the router through the internal cat5 cabling? Would it impact performance or even work?

Thanks 

[TimmyBGood]

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@Mark214 wrote:

Can I use that Ethernet port to connect by a cat5 cable to the ONT at the front of the house on the wall to then feed everything back to the router through the internal cat5 cabling? 

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As long as it's a contiguous cabled link or a physically patched circuit, yes.  What you can't do is run it through an ethernet switch.

[TimmyBGood]

@Mark214 

There should be no impact on speed: ethernet is potentially quite capable of being faster than gigabit.

[Mark214]

Great thank you 

[Mark214]

What would happen out of curiosity if it was going through an Ethernet swith.

I do have an Ethernet switch but it's on the output of my router which I use to patch into my smart hub ports to take broadband into various rooms.  

[TimmyBGood]

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@Mark214 wrote:

What would happen out of curiosity if it was going through an Ethernet swith.

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That would tear a hole in the fabric of space-time and let through the many-tentacled beings from the other side, probably.

Or it just won't work, because WAN traffic can't be switched before it hits a router.

One or the other, possibly both.

[Mark214]

Thanks again!