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FTTP in Loft Conversion Flat - Any Advice?

Ah thanks very much, that's very helpful. I'm not sure I can do that myself, but would you suggest I find a subcontractor that can run a conduit for me? Sorry to ask a silly question...
Exactly. As long as there is a conduit laid out for your ISP installer and a string to be able to pull he cable they will be more than happy to use it. It simplifies their installation and they don’t need to deal with the issues they don’t want to deal. Also consider that you can use this conduit for multiple ISPs (if you are lucky to have multiple ISPs provide FTTP at your address). So make sure you have a couple of strings to pull another fibre cable if needed.
 
Exactly. As long as there is a conduit laid out for your ISP installer and a string to be able to pull he cable they will be more than happy to use it. It simplifies their installation and they don’t need to deal with the issues they don’t want to deal. Also consider that you can use this conduit for multiple ISPs (if you are lucky to have multiple ISPs provide FTTP at your address). So make sure you have a couple of strings to pull another fibre cable if needed.
I have at least 3 or 4 ISPs that offer full fibre in my area, so its even more frustrating that I can't seem to be able to install considering how many provide fibre along my street! Sorry if I'm coming in with an obvious question here, but where do you recommend I start in terms of finding a sub-contractor who could do this? Would this be a loft specialist?

The previous tenants had FTTC & my area does not have a stop-sell enforced on copper connections just yet, so that may well be what they end up offering when they turn up on Wednesday as a short-term solution, after which I'll make a call on whether to use this or mobile broadband. While I'm sure there's benefits to swapping copper for full fibre across the country, it's very worrying that flats that are higher up/not as easily accessible risk being completely shut off from fibre because of these new rules.
 
Bonanza66.

Why are you so determined not to try and see if you can get good enough broadband from a cellular feed?

Contractors running conduits.....You must be mad if you have not even tried using cell feeds.

Tony
 
Bonanza66.

Why are you so determined not to try and see if you can get good enough broadband from a cellular feed?

Contractors running conduits.....You must be mad if you have not even tried using cell feeds.

Tony
Hi Tony,

I'm just exploring all of the options I have, especially after being told I had none. I am definitely considering cellular broadband, in fact it's my top choice at the moment and I'm looking into getting new SIMs to explore signal strength. I'm quite new to all of this and was not expecting to face all of these problems when moving into this flat, so I am just taking in all of the options, so I can make a plan if my top choice is not feasible.

I hope that clarifies things.

Thanks
 
B66. I was in a similar situation. A block of flats where the management refuse to allow full fibre cabling. So I have fibre to the cellar and 100 year old copper from there to my flat. Total rubbish.

I bought the cheapest phone I could find on eBay that had 5g and proper ethernet tethering. I tried each network for as long as it took to work out which was best and most reliable and where to put some receiving device.

As you will learn you can continue with the phone if you get one of those devices that let you keep it charged. Quite a few folk around here stay like that. I decided to buy a Huawei CPE Pro 2 and sell the phone. A wiser man would have kept the phone as a backup probably.

T
 
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Just wait until OpenReach have been to look at the installation - it may well be that they put more effort in than Community Fibre to find a way to install FTTP.
If there's copper service already there it *should* be ducted/cable clipped either up or through the building to the property. From a BT perspective it *should* be easy as they can just pull alongside the copper install - providing it's not too far from the CPE.

All depends how bodged the BT install was done though I guess.
 
The internal install is unlikely to have been done by BT, they will have installed a DP in a communal area and then the developers would have waved some phone wires at them to link up to each flat.

Regarding cellular options, if a little bit of effort results in FTTP then that's a far preferable option to relying on 5G.
 
Yes they did! I had really great engineers who were determined to find a solution, so they ran the fibre cable to the flat via the hallway and installed everything. Hoping for no more issues now that the ONT is installed.
Good to hear there are some engineers out there...
 
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