Full fibre installation - Status changed to: Mission Accomplished

[Nigelb1972]

Just want to send a big thank you to everyone involved in my Full Fibre installation... Openreach were brilliant, the chap arrived two days after I put the order in because he couldn't do the original job he was booked for so just popped by and the Sky chap who did the final hook up... Arrived in his slot and completed his bit within an hour... Absolutely faultless service and the broadband speeds are cracking. To say I'm happy with how it all went is an understatement.... Two weeks from ordering to being connected is amazing especially how my previous ISP (BT) said there was no Openreach appointments for at least 3 months 🤣

Excellent work Sky & Openreach 👌

[GeoWolf58]

Ok, just to put some ghosts to bed about what you get and what you can do to get your Full Fibre the way you want it.

My brother is up and running with his Sky Full Fibre. He ordered 100Mbps but is getting way over that at moment.

He ordered about two weeks ago.

Had an OpenReach engineer visit last Friday who ran an overhead cable from the nearest pole ( 20 metres away ) to his wall outside of kitchen. Fitted a junction box and connected fibre cable.

Sunday, I ran a 15m Ethernet RJ-45 Cat 7 from the kitchen to the living room via his loft space to beside his Sky Router.

Today Monday, Sky engineer visted and fitted a ONT box inside kitchen and connected to the outside OpenReach junction box.

Connected Ethernet cable between ONT box in kitchen and Sky Router in living room, and connected phone to Router.

Had a minor problem with installion connection, but after making a phone call to Sky HQ, they altered settings at Local Exchange and hey presto, everything was up and running.

So, to summerize.

Openreach fit external junction box to outside wall of house. Sky engineer fits ONT box to interior of house, but on inside of wall to where external box is fitted.

You can run a RJ-45 Ethernet cable how you want to where you want your Router to be situated.

Your phone plugs into your Router, thus becoming digital.

Your old OpenReach phone socket becomes redundant.

Easy peasy.