FWIW, I had my own install done last week and ended up running the indoor portion of the fibre myself as the engineer was not allowed to enter the floor void that was by far the easiest way to get it where I needed it. He happily gave me a 30m role of fibre (I needed around 15m) with the ONT termination at one end, and bare fibre at the other, and it took me an hour to drill the hole at the front of the house, route the cable and clip it neatly into place for when the engineer returned from the previous job.

All dead straightforward with no issues. As a note, it would have been tough to run the indoor fibre around walls because it cannot be curved in a radius of less than around 6 inches, so doesn't go round sharp corners very neatly. Fine under the floor, but keep this in mind when planning the route or putting in ducting. The outside, overhead fibre is even worse, with a minimum radius of around 12 inches! It's pretty robust stuff otherwise, but definitely better put somewhere out of sight if possible.

I wanted to do this so that the ONT was next to the old BT master socket and, most importantly, in the same place as the rest of the kit and the UPS that keeps it all running if the power glitches. Would have been a pain to have the ONT elsewhere, although I'm sure it could have been managed if needed.

Edited by daern (Tue 18-Jun-24 10:21:34)

In reply to a post by daern:

I wanted to do this so that the ONT was next to the old BT master socket and, most importantly, in the same place as the rest of the kit and the UPS that keeps it all running if the power glitches. Would have been a pain to have the ONT elsewhere, although I'm sure it could have been managed if needed.

Why PoE ONT's would be ideal. No need to have power near the ONT.

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Why PoE ONT's would be ideal. No need to have power near the ONT.

I agree, but I don't believe that Netomnia's is and while there are other PoE power breakout solutions that could be used, the easiest solution for me was definitely to get under the floor myself and put it in the right place!

I wish you luck if you ever have technical issues with your service

getting openreach to admit to fix the fault for free when they can charge you £160 a visit and blame YOUR piece of fibre is going to be very interesting. even if the fault is outside your house and csp.

The ‘radius less than 6 inches’ thing isn’t correct … more like a bend around a fifty pence piece

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I wish you luck if you ever have technical issues with your service

getting openreach to admit to fix the fault for free when they can charge you £160 a visit and blame YOUR piece of fibre is going to be very interesting. even if the fault is outside your house and csp.

Technician presumably 'adopted' it when he put the connector on the fibre and activated the ONT. No issues at all.

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In reply to a post by pyarwood:

I wish you luck if you ever have technical issues with your service

getting openreach to admit to fix the fault for free when they can charge you £160 a visit and blame YOUR piece of fibre is going to be very interesting. even if the fault is outside your house and csp.

Technician presumably 'adopted' it when he put the connector on the fibre and activated the ONT. No issues at all.

Yeah, exactly. It's really not a big thing. I used their supplied cable, routed according to their rules by agreement with the engineer who said that he would have done the same, except that he couldn't enter the floor void. It's all tested end to end so there really isn't anything to go wrong here. It only followed the same route as the old Openreach copper anyway, so it's hardly anything revolutionary. I would bet good money that OR would have gone under the floor anyway (they did the last time the copper cable was replaced), but the Youfibre guys have to tread much more carefully and play exactly by the rules.

I'm quite chilled about this.