Full fibre

superM

Hi, 

i’m currently have 67mb broadband with EE. I am paying £25.99 a month and the contract started in March this year. I’ve visited an EE store recently and they’ve upgraded my broadband to full fibre. It works out £25.99 a month and it will go up in March 2026 and then March 2027. The speed on the full fibre 150 MB.

An openreach engineer has been booked to visit my property next week to install the full fibre. I have External Wall insulation all around. Are Openreach engineers qualified to work through an external wall insolution. 

Secondly, the current router is set up in the middle living room. When I spoke with EE they said the engineers  normally install the cable to the room front of the street. We normally sit in the middle room so I am not sure how the WiFi connection will be like.  If I ask them to install the box in the middle room would that be an issue? 

Thanks 

NorfolkCanary

Not sure about external insulation qualification.

In terms of setup (not sure about your house internals & wiring), but when I had mine upgraded from ADSL to Fibre:

City Fibre ran a cable from the pole (back of the property) to the eaves, down wall with connecting box outside, drilled O/S wall, ran cable along skirting to nearest mains socket for the ONT connection point. The router needs to be connected to the ONT, so depending on where your power points are will determine what you do next. The ONT needs power as does the router, though not necessarily next to each other.

You could of course drill your own, or employ a handy-person to drill internal holes through walls, subject to scanning for existing cables or obstructions to place the router where you like.

Signal shouldn't be a problem through the house, assuming you'll receive a replacement router anyway? (my router on kitchen floor to front of house, though solid walls, is absolutely fine). There are options to extend or use the house wiriing as 'extenders'.

Nb. I still have a defunct OpenReach cable & pole stay connected at the front of the house. 

DiamondLil

We moved from EE to Vodafone full fibre a few weeks ago. We, too have external wall insulation and the Openreach engineer did a great job. He was very knowledgeable about EWI and the connection is clean and tidy. Ours comes in at the front of the house and is pretty much invisible from the street. It's an old house, solid brick walls and the wifi reaches all rooms, including the "office" at the far back end and upstairs. 

iniltous

A standard installation which is almost certainly what your ISP has ‘ordered’ includes upto 10m of internal surface wiring from where the cable comes in from outside to where the ONT is fitted , this isn’t that far if you consider running over door frames etc , if you wanted to go through a wall to get from one room to another you probably woukd have to make that hole yourself, the ONT also needs to be near a power outlet (actually a double outlet  if the router is next to the ONT ) so chances are this will be in the room with an outside wall , not a ‘middle’ room .

If WiFi coverage into every room is an issue there are various solutions available, some you ‘rent’ , some you buy and fit yourself, but it’s probably the case the WiFi coverage will be adequate anyway 

JSmithy45AD

If your current router is in the middle of the house, then presumably it's connected to the master socket in a different room via an extension cable? If so then just use the same cable, as long as the new ONT is nearby to the existing master socket.

EssexExile

JSmithy45AD said:

If your current router is in the middle of the house, then presumably it's connected to the master socket in a different room via an extension cable? If so then just use the same cable, as long as the new ONT is nearby to the existing master socket.

Not necessarily, our incoming copper line just appears in the middle of the house, presumably dropping down from the attic. Now fibre comes in the front and a mesh system gets it around the house.