Full fibre replacement

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Durhamlandy1

Original Poster:

30 posts

79 months

Saturday 4th May
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Hi, my house has two traditional copper(?) phone points a master downstairs and a secondary in a room upstairs. Open reach have been to upgrade the property to full fibre, so I now have new fibre connection next to the old master socket. Is there a way that I can easily connect the new fibre to the old copper master internally so that I can utilise the connection to upstairs? All my stuff is up there and WiFi including using three eero 6 repeaters is rubbish. all was better the old way - I'm guessing they won't come and put the old back in😁
Failing that I fear I'm running a cat 6/7 up the front of the house through the roof and back down the other side?
Thanks

quinny100

960 posts

193 months

Saturday 4th May
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You could ask Openreach to run the fibre upstairs, possibly externally but unless you make it very easy the engineer may push back, especially if you get a subcontractor assigned the job as they work on a fixed price and tend to just walk away from anything that takes any time.

Is your property served overhead or underground?


surveyor

18,119 posts

191 months

Saturday 4th May
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Power line adapter? Quite quick nowadays.

I can’t imagine you will get any joy from BT.



Defcon5

6,295 posts

198 months

Saturday 4th May
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I’ve got TP power line plugs and can’t fault them. 100mb speeds easily.

Obvs depends on your wiring I suppose

Blockbuster

228 posts

68 months

Saturday 4th May
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Sometimes, especially with more modern builds, the master socket and extension are linked using CAT 5 cable (using 1 pair)

If this is the case, then it wouldn’t be difficult to replace the sockets at either end with RJ45 sockets.