Fibre at the house question

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NickRennie

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#229055 5-Feb-2018 15:46

Hi,

We've got the Chorus guys laying fibre in our street in Thames in the next couple of weeks. I've currently got a structured home network (cat5e) throughout the house with the distribution point being in a cupboard under some internal stairs. The location of the cupboard means that it would be difficult to get any new cable in there from outside. Internal room, two story house, concrete floor. I wish I'd put in some PVC piping for a cable duct when the slab was poured.

With fibre, what happens? Is the cable from the ONT on the external wall to the modem in the cupboard a fibre cable? I'm guessing it is. If it could be cat5e I could use one of the existing runs to the outside wall (there are heaps).

Are there any websites with information that would help?

Thanks,

Nick

kiwifidget

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#1952062 5-Feb-2018 15:50

it's normal ethernet from ONT to router.

I use the structured house cabling to get from ONT to router.

Works fine for internet but may not suit landline depending on your provider.

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froob

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#1952072 5-Feb-2018 16:25

Just a bit of a terminology issue here. The ETP is the box stuck to an external wall, the ONT is the “fibre modem” inside. It is fibre from your ETP to your ONT inside, then ethernet from your ONT to router as kiwifidget said.

If you can’t get fibre to under the stairs easily, the next best bet will be to install the ONT next to one of your existing ethernet jacks around the house, then patch it from there to your router.

It sounds like you have a choice of existing runs to the outside wall. Look for one where it will be easy to get the fibre from the point on the street to it, where you will be able to drill through the external cladding, and where the ONT will not be in the way. It is wall mounted and would be vulnerable to kids and knocks, etc.

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k1w1k1d

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#1952155 5-Feb-2018 19:11

Don't forget that the ONT needs power too.

froob

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#1952203 5-Feb-2018 22:36

Also, ideally you will want two ethernet jacks at the place you install the ONT. That will let you patch both phone and voice back to your distribution point, if you have a landline through an ISP that serves it as VOIP from the ONT (e.g. Spark).

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webwat

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#1955158 11-Feb-2018 13:12

And if there is anything that needs Ethernet next to the planned ONT location, that needs to be another cable from the router (under the stairs) back to the device. There are splitters you can get that share the one Ethernet line but cut the speed on each output down to 100Mbps.

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