Moving FTTP Cable

[Deleted User 298457]

Hi guys,

When BT came and did the FTTP install I was a bit distracted. I hadn't realised they'd ran the ugly cable right down the front of the house and across my lovely 1930s ornate brick built porch......

I have a grey box outside, and then they've drilled a hole into the "under the stairs" cupboard.

Ideally I'd like to terminate the fibre into the attic and then relocate the modem up there, and run a cat5/6 down to the router.

Without being preached to about touching the CPE, is it a case of unplugging the modem and feeding the fibre back through the house? Or is there a connection outside to the grey box? Was the fibre from the grey box to the modem terminated on site, or is it just a fly lead?

Many thanks

 

[Deleted User 298457]

In the grey box is a spliced connection, so unless you want to drill a hole large enough to get the entire box through you will need Openreach to do the move for you. Your ISP can order an ONT shift, it's £89.04+VAT until the 1st April when it goes up to £98.93.

I guess if you can find somebody with a fusion splicer you could have them reconnect for you, but I'm not sure they'd cost less than Openreach.

Do you mean I can disconnect the modem from the grey box, and move the grey box freely?

Sorry I would go outside and check but my god it is cold/ I am on work calls.

 

[Deleted User 298457]

You can unplug the ONT, but the cable is fed from inside-out and then spliced so the connector won't fit through the hole in your wall.

The grey box will effectively be "inside" my house (attached to fascia board near loft). Can I then get a ready made cable from grey box to the modem? I.e. just bin the current connector?

 

[Deleted User 298457]

No, it's a fusion spliced joint. There's no connectors inside that box. Moving the grey box (customer splice point) to somewhere that can only be accessed by ladder is a good way to ensure nobody can repair your drop cable.

Welp, that's scuppered any easy plans then.

For anyone else interested:

 

[Deleted User 298457]

If that's not condensation on the wall then what looks like your cast iron waste pipe needs looking at

My poos are substantially bigger than that. That's gas.

 

[Deleted User 298457]

Looks like nearly the right colour compo, I see they left you a Nice Blowout where the cable comes through the wall.
In all seriousness, I'll keep this info in mind for my FTTP install. When we last had Virgin installed I pulled the old cable out the lawn which was mauled I then curled it up by the T and dug a new trench to where I wanted it to go. When the installers turned up(I already inforomed VM no cable present) I offered them a cup of Tea and £20 to go the extra mile and NOT spice the cable.

Yeah unfortunately this is what happens with unsupervised installs. The young lad has blown loads of bricks with cable clips too, and gone the most bizarre route ever. I ask him to leave me loads on the fibre so I can route it, and he came to be gleefully explaining he'd left me 6 inches...........

 

[Deleted User 298457]

Is the connection inside the house, the one that goes to the ONT, just a standard SC connector? Looks it from pics but I've never seen one in the flesh to be able to tell.

If so then in theory you could just run your own simplex single mode fibre cable with pre-terminated male/female ends on to wherever you need it to be. Though you'd have the problem of having to make holes big enough to pass the connectors through.

Yeah I could do that but the problem statement is the drop from the telegraph pole itself. Just ran an ungodly route . In the house it's perfectly fine (y).

 

[Deleted User 298457]

Need to fit a new waste pipe in the coming days (moved the bathroom to front of house) -- the cable has become an annoying consequence. I will have to have a first go at rerouting else it'll be "over the top" of the pipe for life