Position of optical network terminal box

[JoeP11]

Hi All

I'm getting full fibre installed this coming week. The OpenReach box has been installed at the rear of my house by the kitchen, but the current internal router is at the front of the house in the living room.

Will the engineer on installation day be able to run a fibre cable through the house to the living room? Or even better, run a fibre cable around to the front of the property and use the existing wall hole for the copper cable.

[JimM1]

@JoeP11 Were you not there when they put the outside box on the wall? You can only ask on the day per the installer, but ideally if your hub is working well where it is now you want to keep it there! Two power points needed, one for the new Fibre ONT and one for the sky Hub, short sky cable supplied 1 to 2M length but you need longer then it's get one yourself to use.

[JoeP11]

@JimM1 Thanks for the reply.

No one was in when the outside box was installed. We only found out because our bin was misplaced. The only installation text I've received was about the inside, scheduled for this coming Monday. The wall with the outside box has a kitchen with tiled walls and a bedroom, neither of which is suitable for drilling through.

I'll speak with the engineer when he arrives to see what options I have.

[Waveman]

When my openreach engineer came this week, i asked for the connection to be in my garage, which he wasnt expecting. They carry various lengths of the final connection fiber in 10m increments, the length i used was 30m!

if you look at how they would be able to run the fiber they will usually be accomodating. As they normally expect to just go to the other side of the wall, offers of cups of tea/coffee will help, as this connection is spliced you won't end up with miles of slack coiled up. 

I was able to run the fiber for the engineer which helped him keep on track for the additional 4 installs he had that day.