We recently had Brsk fttp installed. I had expected the fibre to follow the same path as the existing (but unused for years) copper phone wire. Brsk use Openreach ducts and poles.

When the engineer arrived, he said it can't go that way because the phone wire goes between the branches of a tree.

Luckily, it was possible to find a path from the same pole to the eaves that bypassed the tree.
The fibre comes in through an existing hole, which was previously used by a TV aerial cable (which we had removed some time ago).

I think there is a splice where the fibre meets the house. I'm not sure why, but it certainly seems to work well enough. It's supposed to be 500mb/s but it tests at about 535 each way on speedtest.net.

The ONT is a fairly neat box, though it has four green LEDs lit. Why is it that everythng has to twinkle nowadays?

Edited by hoopla (Tue 18-Apr-23 14:49:05)