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OR FTTP - 1 overhead phone line for 2 properties?

Scarlett

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Appreciate any insights into the practicalities of having FTTP on this setup…

We rent a semi-detached house built in the former front garden of the landlord’s house.

I fancy OR FTTP now it is available (currently on Virgin Media), and next door (the other side of the semi) have recently had it installed.

I understand OR normally replace the overhead phone line to run the fibre, which seems to have been done next door.

However, on our house, I notice it looks like a single overhead cable that runs to ours, but it also has a junction up near the roof that runs a cable back to the landlord’s house, as if it’s daisy chained somehow.

If OR replace the overhead cable - does that mean both us and the landlord would lose the existing phone line, or is this a common setup and OR would run an addition fibre cable around the existing one, or something?

Interested to hear whether this is a common setup and not likely a problem, or whether I’m going to have to hope the landlord either doesn’t use his phone line (probably on VM for internet), or also wants FTTP… I thought I’d ask before I worry him about it!

Thanks!
 
If you wanted FTTP from an Openreach-based provider, then you will have a separate aerial drop cable installed to serve your premises. They won’t daisy chain it from next door.
 
Thanks, so they would presumably run another cable from the pole but also leave the existing one in place so it can still link back to the landlord’s house behind?

The pole is directly at the end of the drive, which is handy.

Is it common for the existing phone lines to run to more than one property like this?
 
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They’ll leave the copper in place and run a separate drop for FTTP. They do the same again if your landlord wanted OR-based FTTP.

It wasn’t unknown back in the day to serve multiple properties especially in a semi-detached or terraced situation from a single copper drop (or other feed) from the street using a multi-pair copper cable into a junction box and then separate feeds to the respective dwellings. This is how my old / existing copper BT cabling was done in London. Common? Hard to say. I suppose yes.

FTTP is discrete connections from the street infrastructure. Each connection goes back to a single port on a Connectorised Block Terminal (CBT) which could be either pole mounted or stashed away in a footway chamber if UG feed is the predominant local method of access.

I won’t muddy the water with what happens with higher density flats / multiple dwelling units as they use a different method of distribution within the building. Similarly if you want multiple FTTP connections at the one dwelling.

Enjoy.
 
Thanks for the detailed responses Pheasant, that’s really helpful to know.

I’ll have a word and we can hopefully crack on with an installation.

Cheers.
 
My neighbours had two existing copper drops (one newer done a few years ago due to issues on the previous line) and they added a third drop for FTTP. When they asked about removing the existing copper lines the installer said they weren't allowed to do that yet. So for the time being it's all new drops for FTTP. Go for it, FTTP is a much better internet irrespective of the speed you pay for.
 
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