Re: FTTP in house with multiple flats

albwil2022 · ‎03-05-2022

Hi BT Community,

We recently have gotten the news that FTTP has become available in our street, which is something we are very interested in. We live in a house made up of 5 flats and we were wondering if for the installation each individual flat needs to have a separate cable/modem installed or if we can have a central installation and share this between the flats ( have multiple connections from a central modem)?

Obviously we would like to be economical here as well as minimize disruption and avoiding 5 different installations/cables. We currently have only copper phone wires running through the shared entrance.

licquorice · ‎03-05-2022

Each house will have a separate cable, ONT (optical modem) and router.

iniltous · ‎03-05-2022

If you wanted to use one connection for all flats , then obviously one person would have to get it installed and then be responsible for all the internet activity on the connection , and pay the bill ( presumably collecting a fee off the others ) and it would be upto yourselves ( not Openreach or BT ) to provide the wiring from the router within one flat to all the other flats , in other words it’s not really practical.
There are some student flat type situations where the landlord may get a single connection and effectively include internet access as part of the rental agreement , but the connection would be in the name of the landlords business and likely would use a proper networking equipment

-Richie- · ‎04-05-2022

@albwil2022wrote:
We live in a house made up of 5 flats and we were wondering if for the installation each individual flat needs to have a separate cable/modem installed or if we can have a central installation and share this between the flats ( have multiple connections from a central modem)?

That depends how the property is made up, each property can have 1 ONT but if the address is properly setup as an MDU (multi dwelling unit) then each flat can have an ONT, if it's a house being let out to 5 people like shared accommodation then it would be 1 connection only.