In reply to a post by broadbandman:

In reply to a post by PaulKirby:

Well once we finally got all our issues resolved which I won't get into, ours was done in 2 stages over 2 to 3 days, but the Chairman's Office and the CEO of BT was involved, but with a 2 stage install there is normally around a week between the external and internal work.

Not really sure about a 1 stage install.

Paul

did they have to dig up around your house?

Nope, all fibres from DP goes up phone pole to the Manifold and then hangs to the CSP on the wall of my house.

I am just guessing here but if yours requires digging then planning permission may / will be requested and have to be approved which "can" take a while to be processed and then the work gets a scheduled date and once completed engineers "should" then be allocated / booked.

Paul

so I rang BT and said I'm moving to zen do I need a pac code? ( I'm not stupid, but it was a way for me to ring them, or else I wouldnt need to do anything )

they said " no, why are you leaving"

I said because cerebus is offering 300mb/s cheaper, so they gave me 300mb infinity 300 for 48 a month including line rental, and dropped my bt sport price from 25 a month to 5 a month, so quids in

technical question, if I want to connect the BT hub to a computer upstairs via ethernet, will any ethernet cable do or do I need a special one for these speeds?

Assuming this is just internal cabling then a standard ethernet cable, at least cat5e. Will you need to put it through walls? If so you can do smaller holes by buying a reel of cable and then terminating yourself (easiest way being to terminate with a wall socket each end that way you don't need specialist crimping tools).

In reply to a post by ian72:

Assuming this is just internal cabling then a standard ethernet cable, at least cat5e. Will you need to put it through walls? If so you can do smaller holes by buying a reel of cable and then terminating yourself (easiest way being to terminate with a wall socket each end that way you don't need specialist crimping tools).

there are already holes where my phone line cable goes from phone hub downstairs to my PC, I just wanted to know if I needed a special rated ethernet cable

As you are going for an FTTP service then I would go for CAT6, as this way you would be covered when FTTP get's faster speeds.

Cat5e will very happily do gigabit - I'm guessing that will keep most people going for quite a while. Cat5e is the minimum - cat6 might possibly be worth it.

I assume the holes are fairly large? It needs a reasonable diameter hole to fit the plug of an ethernet cable through - if they are large then fine but worth being sure.

In theory Cat5e can do gigabit speeds, but in practice it just falls short. Which is why when I install networks for people who have FTTP I always put in at least CAT6, that way they can have such things as NAS devices running at full speed without fear of loosing any speed and it also future proofs them up to 10 gigabit internet speeds.

Edited by robertcrowther (Thu 11-Jan-18 12:10:32)

In reply to a post by ian72:

I assume the holes are fairly large? It needs a reasonable diameter hole to fit the plug of an ethernet cable through - if they are large then fine but worth being sure.

generally you don't use patch cables, therefore you either use keystones or just a punchdown faceplate. So the holes don't need to be so big.