Having checked the situation behind the BT master socket, I’ve come to the conclusion that to use that for the new FTTP installation, my assumption that it would have been easy to pull the new fibre cable through with the existing copper wires cable would not be the case. For one reason, when they installed the metal back box in the wall, they wrapped the cable around the metal box and cemented it in. Also, without actually removing the back box, it would not be possible to tell how the copper wires cable had been run and it now seems highly likely that even if the metal back box were removed to release the cable, it would still not be possible to use it as a pull wire for the new fibre-optic cable. So, with that in mind, I have taken out the BT master socket and put a plastic blanking plate over it. I’m going to ask the engineer to run the fibre-optic cable under the front door and into the immediately adjacent outside storage cupboard and from there to drill a hole through the wall to bring the fibre-optic cable close to where the BT master socket was previously located. With that in mind, I have run my new Cat 7 Ethernet cable from that point to where my ASUS RT-AX88U router is located on the first-floor landing. I’ve made a sketch of how I think this will work, but I’ll post a photograph of the finished job once the engineer has been.
