Digital home phone switchover - PSTN nerds needed!

Murmansk

Second floor flat

Copper phone line comes in via bedroom window and master socket sits on the sill there. I wired a twisted pair cable from the master socket, up into the loft and down through the ceiling into the hall in the centre of the flat where it ends in phone sockets into which the wireless router and DECT base are plugged. 

Question: when they replace the copper with fibre I'm presuming there'll be a little square box thingy they'll insist goes on the sill near the old master socket and it'll need mains power?

Will there be a new router and will it need to go near the new fibre box thingy?

Will they refuse to put the router in the centre of the flat at the end of my cable?

I'd like everything to be in the hall but I don't think that will be what happens?

Thanks

Vitor

Not sure MSE can advise on 'naughty' use of an Internet service. 

Murmansk

Vitor said:

Not sure MSE can advise on 'naughty' use of an Internet service. 

All traces of naughtiness have been cleaned up!

QrizB

I think, from reading other threads on the "Broadband" board, that OpenReach will take the fibre wherever you want (within reason). So it won't have to be the bedroom windowsill.

I'm less sure whether they'll be happy to take it through your loft. Could they eg. pin it to your skirting instead?

Spies

Yeah they won't go through the loft, has to be external

HillStreetBlues

Murmansk said:

Second floor flat

Copper phone line comes in via bedroom window and master socket sits on the sill there. I wired a twisted pair cable from the master socket, up into the loft and down through the ceiling into the hall in the centre of the flat where it ends in phone sockets into which the wireless router and DECT base are plugged. 

Question: when they replace the copper with fibre I'm presuming there'll be a little square box thingy they'll insist goes on the sill near the old master socket and it'll need mains power?

Will there be a new router and will it need to go near the new fibre box thingy?

Will they refuse to put the router in the centre of the flat at the end of my cable?

I'd like everything to be in the hall but I don't think that will be what happens?

Thanks

You can have a same setup as you currently have if you wanted, just a different cable from bedroom to hall

outtatune

Can you not just replace the twisted pair cable from the master socket to the hall with a cat 7 ethernet cable?

GDB2222

Does the DECT base station have to be plugged into the new router? 

sandyman80

GDB2222 said:

Does the DECT base station have to be plugged into the new router? 

My DECT base station is plugged into my router so you need at least 3 sockets.

Router, ONT socket and DECT base station

Murmansk

outtatune said:

Can you not just replace the twisted pair cable from the master socket to the hall with a cat 7 ethernet cable?

Thanks all but yes, I think this is the key conclusion I have come to and I've ordered a 15 metre ethernet cable to do that very thing. 

Interestingly, I pasted the same text I posted here into Google Gemini and it produced an AMAZING response that was incredibly well written and helpful - try it for yourselves?

Frozen_up_north

Don’t forget to get a UPS/battery backup. Unlike the old fashioned telephones, no mains = no phone service.

I was in Spain during the recent countrywide mains outage that lasted around 12 hours, it was quite scary as the mobile networks all failed as soon as the mains went off, there are no public phones anymore and the fibre broadband/phone to the villa was down as well. Should you need to contact the emergency services, you are completely stuffed.