New full fibre installation

[Shaveface]

I have a slightly different setup with my current provider (non-fibre). When I had an escape of water it destroyed the interior of the house, which required stripping the building to the walls and rewiring.

While there was no plaster I put in lots of Cat 6 ethernet cable from every room to the loft, including from the BT socket where the line comes into the house. When I had broadband put back in it routes to the loft where I put a 24-port ethernet switch as well as the router.

What I want is the same setup for full fibre. In theory the Cat 6 cable is capable of 10gbps, so should handle anything the full fibre can pass to it.

So, my question is, what is the output from the point that the optical cable comes to the house? Is it converted to ethernet, or is there a fibre optic cable into the back of the router? Would there be any problem with routing the data to the loft where all the ethernet routing is?

[Shaveface]

Thanks both. I've been looking at the ONTs and it's a simple ethernet socket, so I should be able to feed that back into a new ethernet socket in place of the old BT terminator. Saves having to relocate all my kit!

[Karl-TalkTalk]

Hi

Just to add, at one point, I had a similar setup.  ONT at the lower front of the house.  I then ran an external grade ethernet cable from the ONT,  round the back of the house to an upstairs back room, where I located the router.

This worked fine.

Karl.

[ferguson]

In theory it should work. The fibre cable enters your home directly via an Optical Terminal Network (ONT) to which you connect your router via ethernet cable. So you should be able to connect your switch onwards from there if you wish. The only snag might be whether your preferred location point in the loft is suitable, that is something you would need to discuss with the installing engineers.