In reply to a post by jabuzzard:

Well if Openreach are going to be picky about where and where not they will put ONT's you can't blame people when they go to fs.com get an APC coupler and length of simplex APC SC fibre and then spend more on the postage (to give you an idea of how cheap this stuff is) and move the ONT to where they want it.

+1 but you’re pretty tech savvy Most ‘ordinary’ folk would be doing well to identify the name of the connector - might not realise that green is an APC face colour and end up buying the more common blue UPC type...that usually doesn’t end well.

In reply to a post by AyeUp:

Had it installed this morning, supplied Nokia ONT and have to say a very tidy installation.

Now what puzzles me is the difference in speeds using BT Smart Hub 2 and my Orbi WIFI. On the former speeds don't go above 490Mb dl with around 50Mb ul. Yet using my Orbi wifi in place of the BT router it reaches the speeds expected around 850Mb dl and 110Mb ul, I wonder what the cause of that is?

I was surprised to see even when connected to ethernet on the satellite of the Orbi achieving in excess of 800Mb dl, I might get away with not needing to run an ethernet cable after all.

So no internal CSP?

Is your satellite Orbi attached to the main unit by Ethernet? If not, and you are using Wi-fi, then it is very unlikely that you will be able to get 800mbps by connecting to the satellite; I would double check your results

In reply to a post by PianSomB:

In reply to a post by AyeUp:

Had it installed this morning, supplied Nokia ONT and have to say a very tidy installation.

Now what puzzles me is the difference in speeds using BT Smart Hub 2 and my Orbi WIFI. On the former speeds don't go above 490Mb dl with around 50Mb ul. Yet using my Orbi wifi in place of the BT router it reaches the speeds expected around 850Mb dl and 110Mb ul, I wonder what the cause of that is?

I was surprised to see even when connected to ethernet on the satellite of the Orbi achieving in excess of 800Mb dl, I might get away with not needing to run an ethernet cable after all.

So no internal CSP?

Is your satellite Orbi attached to the main unit by Ethernet? If not, and you are using Wi-fi, then it is very unlikely that you will be able to get 800mbps by connecting to the satellite; I would double check your results

The fibre was spliced externally and protected by the grey cover, engineer then fed another cable along the property to my chosen location.

As for speeds on my Orbi, I connected to the ORbi via ethernet and the satellite in turn connects to the router via WIFI backhaul which is about 1.2Gb theoretical. When I run the speedtest connected to satellite I am getting speeds circa 800Mb dl.....I have checked several sites and using different servers, the results are broadly the same. Now when I try a speedtest on WIFI say on my iPhone then yes it doesn't achieve those speeds only around 500Mb.

In reply to a post by AyeUp:

As for speeds on my Orbi, I connected to the ORbi via ethernet and the satellite in turn connects to the router via WIFI backhaul which is about 1.2Gb theoretical. When I run the speedtest connected to satellite I am getting speeds circa 800Mb dl.....I have checked several sites and using different servers, the results are broadly the same. Now when I try a speedtest on WIFI say on my iPhone then yes it doesn't achieve those speeds only around 500Mb.

Very impressive. I had not thought that Wi-fi backhaul had improved so much.

In case you hadn’t spotted it amongst the other bits ...

that was a ‘yes’ but an external CSP that was supplied.