In reply to a post by MHC:

Why armoured - that really is overkill and a pain to run and connect. External grade - yes but not SWA. And is Cat6 really needed? Cat5e will be sufficient for Gbit.

That's probably what he meant. He quoted for cat6, and honestly price was pretty nice. I just didn't know enough to go ahead with it at the time, and I wasn't sure how it was being terminated on the other end etc. The person in questions job and main customer base is for TV aerials/satellite.

Thanks for all the replies. It makes sense the ONT can't be installed at height. Also would have made it too easy, I suppose.

Consider running two cables to each room (i.e. to a dual socket). It'll cost very little more, and you may kick yourself later if you don't. For example, you can later add an extra wireless AP, or a wired printer, or whatever, without needing an extra switch.

Bring the cables back to a central point, preferably a cupboard of some kind to keep it tidy and out of site. Then you can have your ONT, router and/or switch in there.

Just sticking in my tuppence worth ...
I would also suggest any switch should have PoE capability for the Wifi APs as well.

Any recommendation for a decent external CAT cable?

which part of te country are you in?

Excel brand is good, the problem is that it comes in 305m boxes.

I ran Cat6 to my garage buried in duct and used stuff from Kenable and found it easy to work with and it performs fine, and you can buy it in less than 305m quantities.

In reply to a post by timandhaylea:

OR generally won't install the ONT at height, so you are likely stuck with it in the living room.

You can’t split an ethernet cable and have two connections plugged in the same port. All the cables have to come back to the router or network switch.

Presuming that you can’t drop any cables in the wall cavity, then running the cable(s) outside, either surface mounted or (my preference) in 20mm conduit. You can then either run two cables from the living room to each of the bedrooms, or one cable to the loft, put mini network switch in the loft and drop cables down into the two bedrooms.

There are of course other considerations (router location, additional WiFi points, etc.)., but you should ensure all the cables are terminated to wall sockets, not RJ45 plugs.

the ONT wont be installed at height as it is in the bedroom. are you confusing the ONT and CSP

In reply to a post by threelegs:

the ONT wont be installed at height as it is in the bedroom

"At height" means "not on the ground floor", i.e. installer would have to go up a ladder to drill the hole for the ONT. Floorplan posted by the OP shows all the bedrooms on the 1st floor.

As far as I have seen on many posts on this forum the ONT can be installed virtually anywhere in a property, generally on the ground floor where the underground cable entry is which could be in a garage area, but also in first floor bedrooms where the fibre is run outside the house and also sometimes in a loft area, particularly if from an overhead cable feed. So to state that an ONT cannot be installed at height is absolute nonsense.

In reply to a post by Realalemadrid:

As far as I have seen on many posts on this forum the ONT can be installed virtually anywhere in a property, generally on the ground floor where the underground cable entry is which could be in a garage area, but also in first floor bedrooms where the fibre is run outside the house and also sometimes in a loft area, particularly if from an overhead cable feed. So to state that an ONT cannot be installed at height is absolute nonsense.

When CityFibre did my installation I asked them to put the ONT in the loft, next to all my networking gear. This meant drilling at 6 metres AGL. They were perfectly happy with this provided I denied even seeing a ladder if anyone asked. So I went away to prepare more tea and biscuits while they did whatever it was that they did.

Edited by cjn (Sun 07-Apr-24 22:12:06)