Cityfibre Install Q - Via Pole

Looking to take out a line soon with Vodafone (using Cityfibre). CityFibre installed a CBT/Fibre terminal on the BT/OpenReach pole some time back.

When the contract is taken out, I assume Cityfibre will come out to then pull the fibre from the pole to the house.

The question I have is, are they quite 'understanding' in the sense if we say to install it in a specific location?

The current BT copper line (from same pole) comes at the back of the house, then the wire goes all the way to the round to the side of the house.

As the ONT requires power, we were thinking of putting it at the front of the house (the closest place where there's a power socket - no other location coming all the way round is there a power socket or close to one). As I believe the ONT requires continuos power.

How likely are CityFibre to run it all the way round for this? I don't actually have any other way to get power to the side of the house it's at.

Current Virgin Media coaxial 'box' is in this same location (front) were I am thinking.

I did try and do a few searches to see if others had any success in 'longer' fibre installs, but either I'm searching the wrong keywords, or someone hasn't documented it, yet!

Sorry can't answer question but if you get any information on the install or the actual Cityfibre/Vodafone service in general please post there doesn't seem to be much detailed information especially when it comes to how and what flexibility there is when installing and the service in general. TIA.

I'd expect they will be 'reasonable' much like most operators in this respect. A lot depends on who you get turning up on the day.

They may decide for instance, depending on where you would like the ONT to be located, that the existing aerial drop and cable route makes less sense than to fix to a new point on the property, and run a different way.

At the end of the day, they want happy new customers, that will be a revenue stream for years to come, so I'd be reasonably relaxed that they will find a way of getting the cabling to where you want/need it. Within reason of course 😀

As the ONT requires power, we were thinking of putting it at the front of the house (the closest place where there's a power socket - no other location coming all the way round is there a power socket or close to one). As I believe the ONT requires continuos power.

How likely are CityFibre to run it all the way round for this? I don't actually have any other way to get power to the side of the house it's at.

The ONT is inside you house/flat that will places near to power point. The ONT is not located outside.

The length of the fibre dosn't have same issue's as copper/coax has, fibre biggest issue is tight bends ie the bend around a finger would be to tight.

This one of ONT that cityfibre uses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyEVvEOX3nU
https://youtu.be/Fg3gnW4OSzQ

Edited by amiga_dude (Tue 03-Aug-21 19:19:53)

The way you've written that it sounds like the pole is at the back of your house? Which sounds odd to me.

Edit: Or is the pole on a side street, the "wrong" side of the house for the copper? In which case if you want the fibre at the front presumably they could get to the house at the same point as the copper then run up that side wall, (not the copper one), and round to the front?

Edited by pluralist (Wed 04-Aug-21 18:19:59)

Why would it be odd for the pole to be at the back of a house?

How many houses have you seen where that is the case? Then compare with the number of houses where it is not.

What is normally at the back of a house but not part of the premises? What is normally at the front but not part of the premises? (Ignore the position of the "front door" which can be at the side, as can the "back door").

Edited by pluralist (Sat 14-Aug-21 10:23:06)

I have seen several times on here people making reference to having a telephone pole in their back garden or being fed from the rear (of the property) rather than the front. In my neck of the woods its usually from the front so I always thing its strange when people say differently but for those folk where it does it probably isn't strange.

In reply to a post by pluralist:

What is normally at the front but not part of the premises?

I think it may be tricky to define "front and back". I know of cases where there is no road at the "front" as the house faces a green park. I know of other houses that have a road at the front, and a service road at the back. Those people are lucky to have underground wires

All the '50s builds around here have the poles at the rear of the houses, presumably to keep the wires from crossing busier roads and to keep the streets looking less cluttered.