FTTP tomorrow, where to put the ONT

[DHR]

Typical busy week, only just thinking about the installation and ONT location now

The existing phone point, and therefore most equipment, router, firewall, nas, various iot things and an 8 port switch all tidily tucked away in a cabinet, smack bang in the middle of the house in the hallway Everything in there has wired connectivity.

Looking at it now, I can't see that they'll be able to run the ONT to where it's at, without taking cable along a skirt, over a door etc and I really don't want that, it'll look terrible and there is way more chance of the cable getting damaged with shoes and stuff being thrown around by the front door

I know in theory I could run a cat5/6 cable between the ONT and the router, but again, structurally I don't think I can do that with the building layout.

What have other people done to sort out similar situations? House is about 15-20 year old so can't see this being an uncommon problem

 

[DHR]

How does the phone cable get there?

That's what's bugging me, it's a total mystery. I believe that cable runs up toward the ceiling, not convinced it goes into the loft though.

There is a door frame to the right, then the wall along to the door from there has a bell box on it for the door bell. Just have a horrible feeling it's all been put in by the builders before it's been plastered etc.

 

[DHR]

Think I have a work around that would be tidy, just whether they'd be willing to do it or not which I'll hopefully find out soon

 

[DHR]

It's difficult to explain without drawing a diagram, but we have a dining room / front lounge to the right of the hallway where the phone socket currently is, this is on an external wall, so I'm hoping he's going to be able to go around that side of the house, through the wall and mount the stuff on that wall, only leaves a 3-4m cat5 cable needing to be run from there to the hub in the hallway cabinet that way.

Going to where the socket is in the center of the hallway is too complicated as it joins onto a utility room with tiling and washing machines etc in the direct path from the phone socket to the outside world.

 

[DHR]

All done, up and running, i'll take some pictures later if i get chance @Bluecube - not a good idea putting cable behind skirt though as if you need to repair it at any point, its more of a job.

I fortunately had a spare bit of tidy trunking that's empty across the small run of wall the ethernet will have to go by.

Disappointment part one (and it's my own fault!) Ended up getting the black wifi discs, which apparently need the smart hub 2 (SH2) to work, not necessarily a problem but you can't configure DHCP on the SH2 to point to pihole. I'll have to have a try to see if I can get the discs working with the hub without it providing DHCP. PITA though!

 

[DHR]

You can turn DHCP off on the hub and have your PiHole do DHCP and DNS. Possible that you might have to pair the discs up with the Smart Hub with DHCP enabled and then turn it off later.

Yeah I did think that but heard a couple of reports re the discs not working after which I thought was weird, they should just pick up a lease from anywhere. The discs aren't even here yet thanks to another postal delay so i'll have to wait and see.