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I’ve still no idea how they’ll get the cable across the hall and into the living room

Is the living room at the front of the property, sharing the same wall as the BT66 box shown in your photo?  If so, as others have said, the installer will likely run the cable externally along the front wall to reach the living room, then drill a hole there to get it inside.

If the living room is at the back of the property (and you've said it's a mid-terrace), then the fibre would need to be run internally - clipped to skirting boards as you mentioned in a previous post.  There's a limit to how far Openreach allow for this - 10m from memory, but I could be wrong - so if it's further than that you could be out of luck.  In that case you'd need to agree a different internal location for the ONT (where the fibre terminates), which will need to have a power socket nearby.  You could then run ethernet cable from here internally to wherever you want the Hub to be - it doesn't need to be next to the ONT, it can be up to 100m away connected by a Cat5e (or better) ethernet cable.

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Message 22 of 25

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That’s helpful, thanks. The living room is at the back of the house and the current BT socket is in the furthest corner. However, it’s a tiny house and the front door to the back wall is only about 6m so, hopefully, they’d sort something out.
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Message 23 of 25

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So what was the outcome?!

Realise this is an old thread but very interested to know as I'm in a similar boat. Although the first nearest power socket in my house isn't set back quite as far as in yours

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Message 24 of 25

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I was really lucky. I got a BT Openrreach engineer who said he liked a challenge and laid a cable from next to the front door took it under the stairs, through the understairs cupboard and along the skirting board to the original BT point so now I have super fast broadband.

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Message 25 of 25

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Exactly, it is entirely dependent on the engineer on the day and what he/she is prepared to do.

If you are unlucky and get a contractor on piece work, they will not be amenable to spending any extra time than necessary on the installation

 

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