Afternoon all. We're currently on Halo 3+ via FTTC, with a SH2, the backup mobile router, and a disc at the rear of the house. Next week OR will attend to install Full Fibre 100.
Will the existing internal kit still work with full fibre? They haven't specifically said they'll send anything new. The existing main router says it's a 2 on the back, but doesn't have the little coloured icon next to the BT logo, and we've had it a year or two - so it may be 1st gen v2, if you see what I mean.
However, my main question is this. About 2yrs ago the internal house telephone wiring developed a fault resulting in the router constantly recycling. The engineer couldn't isolate it and as we don't use landline phones anyway, in the end bypassed it altogether and ran the cable behind the gas box and across the front of the house and drilled straight into the back of the existing master socket. He left me enough slack so I was able to bury it along the front wall where we never dig. Everything rock solid since.
Will OR be able to run the new fibre cable the same way and in through the same hole to the new internal box? I know there'll be a new external box too - we're on UG ducting from the street chamber a few metres away. Does fibre need protection? Can it bend down out of the new external box, and bend up to go through the existing hole - or must it run as straight as possible?
I'm hoping they can replicate what we already have as that would keep everything together inside where we really need it.
Sorry for the long post. I'm just not not sure what's feasible and how amenable OR will be.
TIA. BR, Mike
Thanks licquorice. The main hub has that firmware so should be OK for full fibre - although since I posted I've got an email from BT saying that at least 2 packages are being despatched, so we'll see.
We are already on DV, so they'll remove the copper I guess?
I appreciate the new cable doesn't *have* to enter the house at the same point, but I'd prefer it to, hence my wondering about the external run and feasibility of burying it again. Where it comes in now means I'm straight onto the router where I have a bit of AV and smart home kit adjacent.
I understand they'll junk the existing master socket and be replaced by the new powered ONT.
If they insist on running it from the back of the new external box it'll come into the hall and need routing across the front wall of the living room. For reasons relating to domestic harmony I want to avoid that at all costs.
