In reply to a post by sajid1971:

I got an engineer who told me he couldn't install the fibre where i wanted it because you can't bend the fibre cable 90 degrees around corners. It was kelly comms engineer. Is this true?

Yes, a fibre cable can not be bent as sharply as a domestic telephone cable. The cable will have a minimum bend radius, maybe round the top of a champagne cork.

In reply to a post by Michael_Chare:

round the top of a champagne cork.

I have an imagine of Openreach engineers having champagne corks in their tool boxes just in case

In reply to a post by dect:

I have an imagine of Openreach engineers having champagne corks in their tool boxes just in case

I believe a £2 coin is the rule of thumb for bend radius these days. A champagne cork might be slightly smaller - unless, of course, Openreach are issuing jeroboam-size bottles.

That's safe it it is a day or so since it left the bottle. Very unsafe if you provide it to them out of the bottle as well as the full bottle.

If they like champagne, the unopened bottle might help results to your requirements, as long as it isn't dropped whilst curving the fibre. Particularly if you are standing underneath.

Around the top of a champagne cork?
If that's the nearest comparison you can come up with, then I suspect you shouldn't be fraternising with ordinary folk

So correct me if I'm wrong but a way of getting around not being able to have the ONT box installed along side my preferred smarthub location is to have the ONT box installed next to the external wall and run a patch cable from the ONT to the smarthub (approx 8 metres)?
Do you know if its a standard cat5e/6/7 patch lead?

Don't run a patch lead.

Install an RJ45 socket at each location and ordinary Cat5e between them. Can be riuted as you need and hidden from view quite easily. Then a short patch lead at each end

A patch lead can also be hidden. I'm thinking of running a flat patch lead which can easily be hidden under carpet

Do what you want but don't complain when it fails.

Flat patch lead will NEVER meet Car5e (or above) spec, it will be susceptible to noise and crosstalk. Under a carpet, it will ssoon be damaged and fail.

Always considered flat patch leads a big no-no