Some FTTP questions.

BobsonUK

Thinking about upgrading to FTTP, just have some questions, hope someone can answer.

Our current setup as follows:

Cooper cable is overhead from a pole at the rear of our property.

The master socket is located on an external wall at the rear of the property, next to a double socket, that's where the router is also.

Questions:

1. Do they replace the cooper cable with the fibre cable, just following the same route/hole on the external wall at the rear of the property.

2.What happens with master socket does the phone still get plugged into it, or into the router which is plugged into th ONT.

Thanks for your help with this matter.

iniltous

If the fibre connection block (CBT) is on the same pole as where the copper line comes from ( it usually is ) then the fibre dropwire will replace the copper one , it will terminate in a CSP ( a new block on your house wall ) and a second ‘internal’ cable ran to the ONT location, this can be in the same place as your master socket if you want , or somewhere else if that is better for you.
The phone service will be Digital Voice , so your handset plugs into the router , the master socket becomes redundant 

BobsonUK

Thanks for the help.

Compared to the master socket what kind of size is the ONT?

EssexExile

Around here the route for the fibre depends on the company. BT and Zzoomm via the pole, Lilaconnect underground.

iniltous

TBH , I assumed in the OP case , the FTTP would be from Openreach, if another network operator using PIA ( access to Openreach assets like poles and jointboxes ) the existing dropwire may not be taken down , although a trial apparently exists that allows these Alt Nets to remove Openreach’s dropwires when the Alt Net provides its own fibre dropwire to reduce the ‘stress’ on the pole.

HaroldWhistler

BobsonUK said:

Thanks for the help.

Compared to the master socket what kind of size is the ONT?

The ONT box is usually a small thin box on the wall. About 20cm by 20cm. It will have a power cable that will be plugged into a regular power socket. And the Fibre optic cable that was drilled into the house will input into the ONT. It replaces the old Master socket. 

35har1old

HaroldWhistler said:

BobsonUK said:

Thanks for the help.

Compared to the master socket what kind of size is the ONT?

The ONT box is usually a small thin box on the wall. About 20cm by 20cm. It will have a power cable that will be plugged into a regular power socket. And the Fibre optic cable that was drilled into the house will input into the ONT. It replaces the old Master socket. 

Will they lay cable to a different location from the master socket because mine is in a hallway behind the front door with no adjacent power sockets. If they do who picks up the cost of excavations.

iniltous

The ONT used by OR are roughly 8cm by 9cm.
https://www.openreach.com/content/dam/openreach/openreach-dam-files/images/fibre-broadband/fibre-for-developers/guides-and-handbooks/oct-2020-update/1+0%20ONT%20factsheet.pdf

The cover  only is fitted on new builds where the internal cable was provided at ‘first fix’ into an electrical box box ( pattress box ) , the cover designed to use the fixings of the back box