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Do you plan on having two routers powered on and connected: one feed from the OLT and the other from the NTE for a short while after FTTP is activated and prior to going to VoIP?

I only have the one ethernet cable from downstairs to upstairs to my Asus router. I could move the router downstairs but that mucks up my mesh. So the quick answer is no and it will be a swap from the downstairs modem to ONT I am hoping.

is the second mesh unit downstairs?

Yes but in a different room to the master socket.

OR CEO's office have offered to bring forward the go live date (2nd stage) which is welcome, waiting to hear back from them.

So go live date is now 8th Sept. which is this coming Monday.

Things now seem to be progressing really well...

Just had a thought, does the BT ONT LAN port autosense speed and orientation eg patch cable or straight thru.

Standard T-568B at both ends (straight through) should be OK for the RJ45 ethernet WAN connection between the ONT and router. Speeds wont be a problem with genuine CAT5e or CAT6.

I haven't done this type of wiring myself, I just use ready made RJ45 patch leads. So hopefully somebody else may correct me if I'm wrong...

In reply to a post by 4M2:

Standard T-568B at both ends (straight through) should be OK for the RJ45 ethernet WAN connection between the ONT and router. Speeds wont be a problem with genuine CAT5e or CAT6.

I haven't done this type of wiring myself, I just use ready made RJ45 patch leads. So hopefully somebody else may correct me if I'm wrong...

Thanks for that. I have what I think is a straight thru patch lead supplied by Talk Talk Biz and an ethernet socket with 5a up to the router in my studio. I think I wired the sockets straight thru but have tested with TTB router/hub which has 1GB ports and it works so it was just something that is an unknown at the moment.

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... I have what I think is a straight thru patch lead supplied by Talk Talk Biz and an ethernet socket with 5a up to the router in my studio. I think I wired the sockets straight thru but have tested with TTB router/hub which has 1GB ports and it works so it was just something that is an unknown at the moment.

So you are working with 2 RJ45 patch leads and a length of CAT5 between 2 RJ45 sockets and seeing up to 1 Gb/s transfer speeds? If so I'm sure that will be fine.

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In reply to a post by Banger:

... I have what I think is a straight thru patch lead supplied by Talk Talk Biz and an ethernet socket with 5a up to the router in my studio. I think I wired the sockets straight thru but have tested with TTB router/hub which has 1GB ports and it works so it was just something that is an unknown at the moment.

So you are working with 2 RJ45 patch leads and a length of CAT5 between 2 RJ45 sockets and seeing up to 1 Gb/s transfer speeds? If so I'm sure that will be fine.

Yes that's the idea. Just need someone to splice the fibre and fit a couple of boxes.

Am live now. Bit of a mix up with the CBT (flashing PON light and no connection) but network sorted it and OR engineer is away now.