FTTH help required

panyan

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Right guys, I really need your advise with this one:

- The house has been newly renovated so the install needs to be as clean and professional as possible

- The route for the cabling must go through the garage to the back of the house and then routed to the appropriate rooms - nothing can go through the front walls (missus orders :rolleyes:)

Internet: first floor, back of the house
TV: ground floor, back of the house
Phone: ground floor, back of the house

- If needs be I can install the cabling or a private company

- I havent decided upon a fibre optic provider yet but i am a heavy usenet user so that needs to be taken into consideration

- The package being taken out will be for telephone, TV and internet - probably one of the top packages I imagine


I know it is a lot of things to consider which is precisely why I am asking the forum gurus :)
 
sidethink said:
If you go with a BT backed fibre solution the service will be provided over or adjacent to the BT Master Socket (which I presume is already in the house somewhere).

BT backed? what fibre ISP's are BT backed? :)

If you go with Virgin they will pick the shortest distance from the trunk to your house and enter there. You wont get a great deal of say on the matter I'm afraid - kinda take it or leave it.

Is there a way to pay virgin media or a private company to so this as i want it?

How you route cables internally is an entirely different matter. Its a shame this wasnt considered as part of the renovation rather than tacked on afterward as cutting holes and tracking walls is much easier to cover up if you are plastering or decorating later.

So i could route the ethernet cables myself but they would have the say over the router location? hmmm something to think about

Your options are basically to draw Cat5/6 around the house (if you are concerned about neatness consider getting it done professionally);

this seems like the best alternative

use wireless; use Homeplugs.

cant unfortunately, ethernet only
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Dist said:
With Virgin media, I have a box on the wall where a single co-ax cable comes out of, this is connected to a splitter where 1 cable runs off to the modem in a different room, and another cable runs a couple feet to my V+ set top box. It even hard a 3rd cable on the splitter at one point leading to a secondary set top box in a bedroom, but this has since been disconnected.
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In that case would it be possible for me/private company to put coax cables through the house exactly where we want it and then have VM install the boxes at the ends of the lines?
 
Right then guys, thanks for all the advice - ive been researching for half the day and am happy with the procedure now

thanks again :)
 
crinkleshoes said:
They both claim it's "fibre optic broadband"... yet we only see copper wires & coaxial coming in to the house.
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A few years ago a Virgin Media van pulled up to the house and two burly men came out with a massive drill.

The guy fired up the drill and was about to drill through the wall of our front garden and I ran out out of the house to stop them.

I asked them what they were doing and they said they were the "engineers" to install our VM services. We hadnt ordered VM and there was a confusion with the spelling of the road. Whilst they were here i thought i'd ask about how they do the install in case i ever wanted to switch to VM.

I asked them what the spool of wire was in the van and they said it was the fibre optic cable to bring from the road into the house. I asked them how they connect fibre optic to the router as i'd never seen a fibre optic router before. He said they use a converter box that they screw onto the front of the house.

And since then i never questioned it, i always thought it was FTTH :p
 
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