How to move my FTTP hardware to another room?

[cbm1992]

I have BT FTTP. I’m in the process of upgrading my third party networking hardware. This will ultimately involve several UniFi wireless AP’s connected via Ethernet to a UniFi gateway, as well as some IP cameras (also wired).

My Openreach FTTP gear is in my hallway (photo attached). My ideal plan is to have the Openreach modem, UniFi gateway, and switches all hidden behind a cupboard in my utility room, as this is the ideal location for my various Ethernet cables to terminate.

How moveable is my current FTTP Openreach gear? Is it possible to run the fibre line itself further into my house to allow the Openreach modem to be moved? Or will I have to keep it all in situ and run a long WAN cable from the Openreach modem?

I have also attached a floor plan with the red marker indicating the current location of the FTTP hardware and a green marker indicating the desired location.

Thanks in advance for any wisdom 

[Manatarms84]

You will need to contact BT and book in for Openreach to move it.  Openreach will come out and assess if this is possible and if so move it.  This will be at a cost for you, payable to BT - I believe its around £95 / £100

[licquorice]

Leave the ONT where it is and run a Cat5e cable to where you want your router.

[iniltous]

As stated , it’s an Openreach job your ISP would have to arrange, a new optical cable ran from the CSP on the external wall to the other side of your property and entering on the opposite side of the property , and as you require the ONT somewhere other than on the inside face of an external wall, then any access holes through internal walls , to get into the room/location you want , you would have to provide yourself , 

[ch]

If they move it, they'll just run a cable from where it is now to where you want it.

You may as well run the Cat-5 network cable yourself. At least then you have a lot of options about how you do it - under floor, in walls, along skirting. They have flat cat-5 cable which might be easier to hide, or can sometimes be pushed under skirting boards. 

[TimCurtis]

If you go the flat ethernet option then just make sure that that it's atleast Cat-5e spec. I'd probably go with Cat-6 myself to future proof it.

[chrisjp]

Probably my ignorance but I'm puzzled as to what the very thin cable is connecting the old Openreach mastersocket to the Optical Port on the ONT. This doesn't look like an optical cable but am I missing something here?

[iniltous]

That is the optical fibre albeit with the outer jacket on ,  the outer  cable sheath as been removed for some explicable reason , this is what the stripped cable looks like inside the CSP , the pre-made SC/APC plug end isn’t normally stripped back like this ….perhaps the outer cable sheath stopped the cable being pushed through the existing hole the copper cable used so the installer improvised to utilise the existing hole ….most FTTP  installations won’t look like this at the ONT end