Fibre installation around the side of a property - A Question

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@TimXJR1300 

Couple of things to think about if OR agree to a survey.

Can you lay a duct along the front of the house from approxiately where the copper cable comes in to the point of the garage where the cable would come indoors.

You spoke in an earlier post of the ONT being in the garage. If this is acceptable to you then OR need only drill one hole for the install. You would be responsible for drilling through the internal wall to run an ethernet cable to the router indoors. However, unless it's a big hole you'd need to be able "make up" an ethernet connection once the cable is pushed through.

Brian

[#2]

You spoke in an earlier post of the ONT being in the garage. If this is acceptable to you then OR need only drill one hole for the install. You would be responsible for drilling through the internal wall to run an ethernet cable to the router indoors. 

I believe OR will run up to 10m of Fibre internally to the ONT. So if they can be pursuaded to put the CSP (grey box) on the garage wall, then they can probably run the internal fibre through the garage to the ONT in the house. You will have to drill any internal walls yourself though...

[#3]

Just for context, my FTTP installer was very flexible, I drilled the holes first as I wanted the best chances of getting the ONT in a cupboard not used previously for FTTC, I was worried about their policy about clipping the internal part of the FTTP line to the wall and using the round plastic liners to go in the wall but he wasn't overly concerned, in fact left it lose so I could put the line in trucking and left the ONT in the cupboard lose so I could put where I want on the wall later on.

A take from this then is that if you think it all through first they will probably accommodate where you want it as long as it's sensible. Unsure about distances however the connectors on the end of are pre made and molded so there will be a max length cable they are sent to the job with.

[#4]

To everyone..

Thank you for your support and suggestions which were very helpful.

For me, drilling holes and laying ducts are not something I am willing to do or capable of undertaking. I get that this is new infrastructure but I don't get why it is up to me to do a whole bunch of civil engineering to make it happen.

The complications of no power at the front, 15 internal cable metres  between the front of the house and the router location  together with the apparent random willingness of different engineers to either do the minimum or go above and beyond means that this project will go on the too difficult pile for now.

I will renew my current contract though seek improved price or speed or both.

This at least gives me 18 months breathing space and it gives the industry 18 months to improve their game and do proper installs.

Once again, thanks for your responses.