Location of Openreach external plastic cover

MaxterMind

neilmcl said:

MaxterMind said:

Thanks for that.

As an aside: I'm aware that from the internal Openreach socket there are usually two short cables (perhaps ~50cm) which connect directly between this and the router.

If I wanted to position the router elsewhere in the house, presumably there's no reason why I couldn't get longer versions of these two cables and connect the router to the internal Openreach socket despite these being in two different rooms?

Unless you have VOIP you should only have the one (ADSL) cable coming from your master socket to the router, but answer to your question, yes you can get longer ADSL/VDSL cables or if you want to make the cabling more discreet then you can connect up directly to the socket using some Cat5e cable.

A picture of your current set up would be handy.

Thanks - I'd just see it elsewhere, so I'd just assumed it was all the same; but that clarifies things for me in any case.

neilmcl

MaxterMind said:

neilmcl said:

MaxterMind said:

Thanks for that.

As an aside: I'm aware that from the internal Openreach socket there are usually two short cables (perhaps ~50cm) which connect directly between this and the router.

If I wanted to position the router elsewhere in the house, presumably there's no reason why I couldn't get longer versions of these two cables and connect the router to the internal Openreach socket despite these being in two different rooms?

Unless you have VOIP you should only have the one (ADSL) cable coming from your master socket to the router, but answer to your question, yes you can get longer ADSL/VDSL cables or if you want to make the cabling more discreet then you can connect up directly to the socket using some Cat5e cable.

A picture of your current set up would be handy.

Thanks - I'd just see it elsewhere, so I'd just assumed it was all the same; but that clarifies things for me in any case.

I actually deleted my post as I wasn't sure if you are referring to an existing ADSL/VDSL setup or a future full fibre setup. Clearly if it's the latter and you're referring to the ONT then there's a single ethernet cable going from this to your router, which of course can be as long as you like. If it was the former and you were referring to a standard BT master socket then again only one cable (ADSL) should be connecting to your router from the master socket, and again can vary in length.

JenB79

MaxterMind said:

Thanks for that.

As an aside: I'm aware that from the internal Openreach socket there are usually two short cables (perhaps ~50cm) which connect directly between this and the router.

If I wanted to position the router elsewhere in the house, presumably there's no reason why I couldn't get longer versions of these two cables and connect the router to the internal Openreach socket despite these being in two different rooms?

No sockets will be installed for FTTP. You'll get a wall mounted ONT and from there you run a RJ45 cable to your router. You can have the ONT installed pretty much anywhere in the home, within reason. This is mine installed from 2017, though the latest ones are much smaller albeit with a single RJ45 port (mine has 4):

neilmcl

JenB79 said:

MaxterMind said:

Thanks for that.

As an aside: I'm aware that from the internal Openreach socket there are usually two short cables (perhaps ~50cm) which connect directly between this and the router.

If I wanted to position the router elsewhere in the house, presumably there's no reason why I couldn't get longer versions of these two cables and connect the router to the internal Openreach socket despite these being in two different rooms?

No sockets will be installed for FTTP. You'll get a wall mounted ONT and from there you run a RJ45 cable to your router. You can have the ONT installed pretty much anywhere in the home, within reason. This is mine installed from 2017, though the latest ones are much smaller albeit with a single RJ45 port (mine has 4):

Interesting. Where's the entry point for the fibre?

JenB79

neilmcl said:

JenB79 said:

MaxterMind said:

Thanks for that.

As an aside: I'm aware that from the internal Openreach socket there are usually two short cables (perhaps ~50cm) which connect directly between this and the router.

If I wanted to position the router elsewhere in the house, presumably there's no reason why I couldn't get longer versions of these two cables and connect the router to the internal Openreach socket despite these being in two different rooms?

No sockets will be installed for FTTP. You'll get a wall mounted ONT and from there you run a RJ45 cable to your router. You can have the ONT installed pretty much anywhere in the home, within reason. This is mine installed from 2017, though the latest ones are much smaller albeit with a single RJ45 port (mine has 4):

Interesting. Where's the entry point for the fibre?

Same as copper (copper NTE5 is next to ONT):