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
