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Elle72
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‎11-11-2025 20h45 - edited ‎11-11-2025 20h51

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Full fibre query

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I am on fttc, due an upgrade to fttp soon.  I have a telegraph pole outside my home so assume fibre will come to my house via that.  My hub is in the dining room as I have no power sockets in the hall.  The hub and phone have always been connected to an extension lead to the main socket in the dining room and this has worked with no issues.  I've heard the ONT should be near the hub and with an extension lead this will be okay but I can't get my head around how the fibre will connect to the ONT and if its placed elsewhere then how the ONT will connect to the hub via ethernet cabling.  I have awful visions of cabling trailing all over the place.  Google searches haven't provided clarity.  I'm hoping the community can help me.  

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licquorice
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on ‎11-11-2025 21h46

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Re: Full fibre query

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The ONT can be up to 100 metres from the hub and will need to be connected to it with an Ethernet cable that you would have to install. The fibre cable connects to the ONT which is normally sited on an outside wall. Both the hub and ONT require power, how that is delivered is up to you.

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imjolly
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If fed by pole then fibre cable should follow that to your home then connect to CSP  at ground level. Then the internal cable is joined to external cable and a hole drilled in wall to allow cable to enter home. The ONT (fibre modem) does not need to be where the existing master socket is positioned



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WSH
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on ‎11-11-2025 22h12

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Provided you can run the cables discretely, using an extension lead is not a problem.

I’ve had two routers running off a 9m extension in the hall, (with two ethernet cables and a phone line running into the living room to feed the rest of the house), for the past 10 years now.  No problems.  The last two months they have been joined by an ONT and everything works just as it did before.

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