sbaggs
Pro Member
After a Gigabit Voucher Scheme campaign, Openreach are in the process of making FTTP available in our village (digging up roads, pulling fibre through ducts etc). Now it's time to think about how the fibre installation might be done in our home. I've come up with a solution, and would welcome comments on whether Openreach are likely to go with it.
We're in a detached bungalow, with an overhead telephone line from a pole on the other side of the road (no ducts to our property). The telephone line is attached to the house near the top of the gable end, and that's the only part of the building which offers the height to get a line across the road. Below the gable end is a one-piece fibreglass flat roof to the utility room (was once a garage), and I doubt if OR would want to cut a hole in that - and I wouldn't want them to, either. Because of the utility room roof, getting the fibre down to ground level outside and then and going into the house would be awkward and involve quite a bit of work.
The attic is boarded and lit, with access via a normal stairway - plenty of room to walk about up there. If the fibre is brought into the attic through the gable end, it can then drop down through the ceiling below into the living room. I'm happy to put mini-trunking down the corner of the room which is below the highest point of the gable. There are power sockets at skirting level in that corner, so I thought the ONT could go there. That corner is where the existing BT socket and my router sit, I know get satisfactory WiFi coverage from there and I already have ethernet running from there to my "office" - so all very convenient.
Does that sound like an idea that OR would run with?
We're in a detached bungalow, with an overhead telephone line from a pole on the other side of the road (no ducts to our property). The telephone line is attached to the house near the top of the gable end, and that's the only part of the building which offers the height to get a line across the road. Below the gable end is a one-piece fibreglass flat roof to the utility room (was once a garage), and I doubt if OR would want to cut a hole in that - and I wouldn't want them to, either. Because of the utility room roof, getting the fibre down to ground level outside and then and going into the house would be awkward and involve quite a bit of work.
The attic is boarded and lit, with access via a normal stairway - plenty of room to walk about up there. If the fibre is brought into the attic through the gable end, it can then drop down through the ceiling below into the living room. I'm happy to put mini-trunking down the corner of the room which is below the highest point of the gable. There are power sockets at skirting level in that corner, so I thought the ONT could go there. That corner is where the existing BT socket and my router sit, I know get satisfactory WiFi coverage from there and I already have ethernet running from there to my "office" - so all very convenient.
Does that sound like an idea that OR would run with?























