Possible problem from FTTP Upgrade due to house layout

I live in a rural location which is likely to be near the bottom of the list for FTTP provision. However, I am thinking about the possible complications when it arrives because of the nature of my broadband set-up. The point of entry is in my integral garage. I have a study above where I have my router plugged into a phone line extension. I run 2 computers hard-wired to the router. I would not want a router in the garage because it is dusty and inconvenient for access, and I would then have to run the computers on WIFI. Would the Openreach installer provide a connection to a router in my first floor study? Or is there another possibly solution?.

As long as they can route the cable (probably around the outside of the building) then they usually are quite flexible. Installing into a first floor room is not that unusual.

Thanks Ian72. That is reassuring!

I had a similar situation, where the fibre would need to be run through my loft which they were reluctant to do. So the ONT and router ended up in a bedroom that was poor for wifi. I solved the problem by running an ethernet cable from the ONT though the loft and so I now have the router where I wanted it.

The router and the ONT do not have to be near each other, you could run an ethernet cable from the ONT to the router even if the router is the other side of the house. So you could have the ONT in the garage and the router in the study above.

My ONT is behind the TV and the router is on the other side of the room, a 20 meter Ethernet cable connects them and it is fine.

In reply to a post by threelegs:

The router and the ONT do not have to be near each other, you could run an ethernet cable from the ONT to the router even if the router is the other side of the house. So you could have the ONT in the garage and the router in the study above.

Since I may be faced with a similar problem, is it possible to hardwire the ethernet cable to the ONT similar to what can be done with the current ADSL NTE5 boxes? The less neat alternative is to have an ethernet socket adjacent to the ONT and use a short patch cable.

For my setup, the easiest would be to hardwire a length of external Cat5e to the back of the ONT and route the cable round the outside to a convenient bedroom. It's a bungalow so no real problems doing it that way since the roof space is not that easy to move about in.

Why use an ethernet socket and patch lead? I've a bungalow and I just used an ethernet lead straight into the ONT and it runs through the roofspace (very limited space as well) to the other end of the property and down to the router, maybe 20Mtrs or so. I've had no issues with this setup.

In reply to a post by Tacitus:

is it possible to hardwire the ethernet cable to the ONT similar to what can be done with the current ADSL NTE5 boxes?

No.

The ONT only has a standard ethernet port on it that any cable must plug into.

You can either put an ethernet socket next to where you want the ont to go and hardwire your cat5e cable into that, or get a premade lead and then plug into the ont when it arrives.

In reply to a post by Adduxi:

Why use an ethernet socket and patch lead? I've a bungalow and I just used an ethernet lead straight into the ONT and it runs through the roofspace (very limited space as well) to the other end of the property and down to the router, maybe 20Mtrs or so. I've had no issues with this setup.

Yes you're perfectly right. But my real question is, are you able to hardwire the Cat5 into the ONT or does it have to plug in?

My ideal would be to hardwire the Cat5 into the ONT and take that through the back of the ONT to the wall outside, round the side wall and into a spare bedroom where the router is. It's there because it's about the best place to give decent WiFi across the bungalow.