FTTH/FTTP self cabling

Hi there - I currently have a FTTC VDSL connection which is fine but I am looking forward to my exchange being enabled for FTTH/FTTP.

I am in the middle of doing some renovations to my house which involve moving all my media/internet equipment into the basement and distributing via LAN cables throughout the house.

I am burying cables from the outside of the house down into the basement including Ethernet and co-ax but ideally I'd also like to incorporate a fibre cable so that, when the service becomes available, the ISP would just need to connect their drop cable from the street to the cable that I had already run into the basement.

The problem is that there appears to be a large number of cable types (http://www.fibrefab.com/products/cables/) and ideally I'd want to choose the cable that BT Openreach/other ISPs actually use.

Does anyone here have any experience of this?
thanks!

Won't work. Openreach won't just tag onto the end of something you've installed.


The best thing you can do is to put the ducting in place with a rope so that cabling can be pulled through if needs be if and when Fibre to the home becomes available to you however I wouldn't get your hopes up of it happening any time in the next decade if you already have FTTC.

Lee

That (your suggestion of putting a cable/rope down the ducting to help with pulling though a future cable) is actually a great idea. It's less expensive and I can do that straight away.

I will however delude myself and ignore your pessimism about FTTP (although you're probably right)!

thanks

LOL maybe I can do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abPDWi9i1SQ

Just leave the pull rope there.

Complete waste of time putting in a fibre cable, hoping that OR will connect it up to their network - they won't for a whole list of reasons...

Have a look at this as it may help and be of interest - https://www.ournetwork.openreach.co.uk/resources/sit...

May I suggest a pull wire.

I put a pull rope into a long 50mm duct, with other cables, about 8 years ago.

When I came to need to use it to pull an additional cable through it had been eaten through by mice!

I still haven't solved the problem, but it looks as if I am going to have to dig a new trench.

NJSS

if you can blow a very thin string through with a vac in reverse you could use that to pull a bigger rope through . but only when ready as you may just feed more mice!

And if your duct has mice problems they have been known to eat through fibre too

In reply to a post by NJSS:

May I suggest a pull wire.
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When I came to need to use it to pull an additional cable through it had been eaten through by mice!

Its probably wise to install a seal/plug at each end, as well as having the draw rope.

Openreach certainly mention them in the developer's guide.

I bought some small tapered bungs on ebay to do just that.