Sky Fibre Cable

[PatrickOS1987]

Hi,

We are renovating our house and looking to instal fibre broadband at the same time. Unfortunetly Sky engineers can't attend property until after we have laid flooring (we want to hide cables under floorboard). Our builders are looking to lay the wire themselves, can anyone tell me the specification of the fibre cable used to connect the openreach box attached to the front of the house to the Sky mastersocket?

Thanks in advance

Patrick

[Chrisee]

@PatrickOS1987 that isnt going to work as a trained engineer is required to run and terminate fibre. Better would be to run an ethernet cable from the point where the  supply will enter the home ro connect from the Optical Network Termination unit the engineers will fit to wherever you want your hub. Nothing special required so long as it is at least Cat5e. The ONT will need to be near a mains socket as indeed will the hub. The ethernet cable has to be separate from any network cabling you are planning.

[PatrickOS1987]

Thanks Chrisee - we won't be terminating the cable. We just want to lay the cable underneath the floorboards connecting the outside (where the ONT will be) to where the mastersocket is going to be. So the question is really just what spec of fibre cable do Sky use for connecting to ONT? IF that makes sense. [This is simply a timing issue as Sky can't attend until after the floor has been laid] 

[TimmyBGood]

@PatrickOS1987 

You are at risk of making a fundamental error: neither Openreach (who mostly do such work) or Sky (which has a handful of fibre-trained operatives) will splice or terminate civilian-laid optical cable, as this would be completely against their regulated working practices.  As @Chrisee indicates, putting your own Cat5e cable after  the ONT is entirely legitimate, but everything up to and including the ONT is part of the Openreach national network and cannot be DIY or self-supplied.

[TimmyBGood]

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@PatrickOS1987 wrote:

 connecting the outside (where the ONT will be) to where the mastersocket is going to be. 

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This is also a misunderstanding: outside the property is the Customer Service Point (CSP) which is an unpowered plastic box housing the fusion splice.  The mains-powered ONT (Optical Network Terminal, aka 'fibre modem') is inside the property, and there is no 'master socket' involved in FTTP at all: that function is taken over by the ISP router.

https://www.openreach.com/help-and-support/full-fibre-broadband-installation-checklist 

https://www.increasebroadbandspeed.co.uk/fttp-full-fibre-broadband-installation 

[Chrisee]

@PatrickOS1987 you do not understand how fibre works. Openreach will fit an external Customer Splice Point - small gray plastic box an external wall. The standard install is for an engineer to run a special fibre lead from internally where the ONT is fitted through the wall and splices the cable to the supply. That work can only be done by an engineer approved by Openreach.  The ONT replaces the master socket and modem and it requires power. The connection from there to your router is over standard ethernet cable.