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In reply to a post by zyborg47:

The cable i have is a rinocable, they are based in Ledbury, Herefordshire.

As you would imagine the cables themselves are made in China.

Everything is these days.
i did not buy them because they were based here, The price was good, and they got good reviews, in fact I did not know where they were based until I got the cable delivered.

I would love to run it either outside against the wall or down a channel, but I doubt that is going to happen, at the moment, it runs down the stairs.

If I went for zzoomm, they have two routers type things, so one would be up here and one downstairs, they run the cable outside.

In reply to a post by threelegs:

where the ont is situated has nothing to do with wi fi coverage as WI fi comes from the router. Nice to have the ont in cupboard out the way though, simply run a cat5/6 cable to the router position that gives best coverage or is the handiest position to plug the computer into and get a better more stable connection

Not knowing a lot about FTTP as I have never seen one, from reading stuff the ONT is just like a modem is it not? The router then connects to the ONT. As far as I know, the ONT for zzoomm is stuck on the outside of the house as reading about the installation, it requires power.

As far as I know, the ONT for zzoomm is stuck on the outside of the house as reading about the installation, it requires power.

Zzoomm Installation Promo Video...looks very much internal to me Adrian. I'd be very surprised if they put a typical non IP-rated ONT into an outside space.

Perhaps its a splice enclosure / CSP-style box that you were thinking of?

The only UK provider that I know of (not to say there isn't any) that installs any sort of "active" FTTP customer premises equipment on the outside of a property is...Virgin Media with their RFoG (Vector Technologies, Boostral 610 and 711) units. But these are effectively weather sealed and used the coax lead-in for DC powering. See piccie here

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Zzoomm Installation Promo Video...looks very much internal to me Adrian. I'd be very surprised if they put a typical non IP-rated ONT into an outside space.

Perhaps its a splice enclosure / CSP-style box that you were thinking of?

The only UK provider that I know of (not to say there isn't any) that installs any sort of "active" FTTP customer premises equipment on the outside of a property is...Virgin Media with their RFoG (Vector Technologies, Boostral 610 and 711) units. But these are effectively weather sealed and used the coax lead-in for DC powering. See piccie here

I found thisPDF on zzoomm's website. and by the look of it, there is a box on the outside wall, which as you say could be the splice enclosure and then there is another box on the inside wall, I presume that is the ONT and the two routers.

It is all interesting it how it all works, even if I doubt I will be going for FTTP, I won't say never, but I have no plans at the moment.

That's the typical way its done. The drop cable is transitioned to an internal or dual "inside/out" type cable with either a connector to connector (SC/APC style usually) setup housed the box or a fusion spliced connection.

Openreach were at one time doing their connections without such a CSP. Mine is one of those installs. the external cable is stripped to an indoor-friendly internal grade inner sheath once it comes through the wall, and usually a mechanically spliced connector (again SC/APC) is put on by the engineer (field termination) before its plugged into the ONT.

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In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Zzoomm Installation Promo Video...looks very much internal to me Adrian. I'd be very surprised if they put a typical non IP-rated ONT into an outside space.

Perhaps its a splice enclosure / CSP-style box that you were thinking of?

The only UK provider that I know of (not to say there isn't any) that installs any sort of "active" FTTP customer premises equipment on the outside of a property is...Virgin Media with their RFoG (Vector Technologies, Boostral 610 and 711) units. But these are effectively weather sealed and used the coax lead-in for DC powering. See piccie here

I found thisPDF on zzoomm's website. and by the look of it, there is a box on the outside wall, which as you say could be the splice enclosure and then there is another box on the inside wall, I presume that is the ONT and the two routers.

It is all interesting it how it all works, even if I doubt I will be going for FTTP, I won't say never, but I have no plans at the moment.

I’ve got Zzoomm installed, the grey box outside is just the splice enclosure, they then feed the cable inside the property to the ONT.

Zzoomm only give you one router these days unless you pay extra for the extender add on.

The ONT is 10Gbps with the ethernet port supporting 100mb 1/2.5/5/10G so is pretty much future proof.

What make/model of ONT do they supply?

[thought it was Adtran originally, but probably now a Zyxel if its all-in-one]

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What make/model of ONT do they supply?

[thought it was Adtran originally, but probably now a Zyxel if its all-in-one]

The ONT is Adtran SDX622v

From what I got from support when I upgraded to Home2000 is that the Zyxel (ax7501-b0) still connects to the Adtran so I’m assuming they use an ethernet SFP+ to connect the two.

I’m using a Netgear Orbi with a 2.5GbE WAN.

Edited by Intoxicating20 (Thu 26-May-22 12:06:41)

The ONT is Adtran SDX22v..

Thanks. Perhaps a digit missing, i.e. the SDX 622V?

https://www.adtran.com/amfile/file/download/file/221...

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The ONT is Adtran SDX22v..

Thanks. Perhaps a digit missing, i.e. the SDX 622V?

https://www.adtran.com/amfile/file/download/file/221...

Yes that’s the one. Sorry about that.