Scarlett
Member
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!
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!























