Broadband cabling inside house

[DiyNutJob]

I got ripped off by vodafone and looking to jump ship at contract end. I want to stick with the existing telephone wires in the house for minimum hassle. I know it can do 65mb/s. Anyone has experience of higher speed than that?

I believe Community Fibre installs optic cable inside the house. Anyone has experience of that and how do they run the cable inside the house, surface mounted along the skirting board?

 

[Winglet]

For fibre you will normally have a small box on the outside of the property where the fibre connection comes in off the street.
There would then be an ONT box on the opposite side of the wall inside of your property which then connects to your router by ethernet cable.

 

[DiyNutJob]

Is the ONT box universal and works for more than one broadband provider?

 

[Winglet]

Yes. Most installations are done by OpenReach but then you connect it to whichever ISP's router you go with.

 

[Sally2000]

It's not quite that simple. If Openreach install the ONT then yes, any of the ISPs that use Openreach lines can use it.

But the OP mentions a Community Fibre installation. Their own fibre and their own ONT have the same functions as OR, but if a Community Fibre (or one of the other Altnets) subscriber were to switch to Openreach it's an interesting question whether OR would want to use that ONT. Particularly since they would very likely run their own fibre from their own street cabinet. This situation may not have arisen yet, but I'm sure it will.

And of course Virginmedia are different again.

 

[DiyNutJob]

Yes, I was concerned about each provider coming to drill a big hole in the wall. I will stick with copper wires for less hassle.

 

[DiyNutJob]

I got switched over to Shell Energy broadband yesterday, half expecting it to be bad because it was the cheapest and came with an amazon voucher. But, wow, the switch over was completely seamless and speed was acceptable from the get go. I didn't even have to change the router and the vodafone one kept working. The only odd thing is I have a talktalk IP. I used talktalk in the past and they were fine. I will have £80 to spend on amazon. An angle grinder and an SSD drive could be on the cards!

Shell has an expensive out of contract price and their router has to be returned free of charge. I will have to switch away from them after an 18 month contract.