New BT FTTP Install - 2nd Floor, via roof? Is this possible

Hi!

Having a BT FTTP install done next week, and I want it installing on the 2nd floor (Loft Room)

I was hoping the engineer could just send the cable up the roof and then drill in via the roof, or the extension window box thing on top of house? is this doable?

The reason I want it up here is, its a private line only for me to my room, there is already a Virgin connection installed in the house via a room below. (Houseshare Rental)

Pictures of the Front and Rear of the property, showing the room in question where ideally I'd like the cable to come in for the ONT box

Front of House

Rear of House

I’m gonna say - no.

You want it there, then run cat6 from a position that will be accessible up to your inaccessible point.

Agree with Zarjaz - The install point / CSP will most likely go above the virgin entry point if suitable, which means the person in the room below will likely have to be disturbed.

Hope you have your landlords permission.

In reply to a post by bogey_man50:

I was hoping the engineer could just send the cable up the roof and then drill in via the roof, or the extension window box thing on top of house? is this doable?

Run externally: The cable would have to be routed, from the wall up under the eves, over the gutter and then run over the slates to the edge of the dormer window frame.

Run internally: there'd have to be a void with a (workable and safe) crawl space between the eves and the dormer...it looks very tight. Otherwise if the top room is boarded out to the line of the roof, he'd have to come through the eves again and fish it through...

I'd say 'no' too. The landlord probably wouldn't be particularly happy either with that.

Yeah after assessing it all, I am just going to have the ONT installed in the front hall near the door next to stairs, as there is a double socket there, so it'll be neat & tidy on the wall.

Then I will just run a CAT7 cable from the ONT up to my room where the router will be,

much easier, and very minimal work needed from the engineer, 1 easy hole through next to front door.

And yes, I have permission.. basically as long as I pay for it I can do whatever I want here!

Plus it leaves BT nicely set up & installed for future tenants if I ever leave here.

I would humbly suggest you park the Cat7 - if it indeed is proper Cat7 - then it will be an absolute [censored] to work with and route nicely in amomsgst the fixtures and fittings. I'm presuming your not going to start lifting floorboards and opening walls in a rental....

Find a nice drum of Cat5e - it will do the job just as well and be 100 times easier to work and route.

Oh really?

Whats wrong with Cat7? its just a 30M roll of flat ethernet cable, which i have running all round my room already to connect up my other devices to my Ethernet Switch, and from the virgin router downstairs too, works fine!

I won't be putting it up through floors etc, just pinning along the skirkting boards then up the side of the stairs where it will join in with my other cables that go up to my room, and just route with them in the clips i already have.

Not a permenent placement, will all come out whenever I leave here

Good luck. Hope it all works out for the best.

In reply to a post by bogey_man50:

Whats wrong with Cat7?

From your description its not Cat 7 and also may not meet any actual specification. (You may have been mis-sold).

Cat 7 is not "better" than Cat 6, it should be something very different, for different purposes.

For info:
https://www.cablematters.com/blog/Networking/what-is...

Edited by jchamier (Fri 18-Mar-22 08:01:32)