Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:16:18 +0100 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.0.3 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=18453&Focus=310938#Comment_310938 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=18453&Focus=310938#Comment_310938 Sat, 04 Jul 2026 14:48:15 +0100 Rex

Frequently happening as I get older, I am getting my knickers in a twist as technology leaves me behind.
At the moment, broadband and landline is with PlusNet via fibre to the pole. We are not paying for the landline, but it does receive incoming and we would pay per minute for outgoing calls.

My contract is ending but PlusNet are no longer offer a landline, just Full Fibre b/b. However, their associate company EE, will offer full fibre to the house and I assume, VoIP to keep the phone and phone number.

I am told that an engineer will have to assess how to get the fibre to, and then, into the house. At the moment, it is overhead to the front roof apex, then phone cable to the various RJ45 sockets which was part of the building process. The ''customer help' was not exactly helpful with my questions, but ......

Fibre has to come to the router which if it was in the loft, can I then use the existing wiring to the computers on the g/f?

The 'unhelpful' assistant was suggesting the fibre will have to be routed down the wall then drilled through the wall to where the office is located. The house is timber frame with Warmcel insulation. There is the breather paper on the frame (but that is inside the cavity) and internally, there is scrim under the Fermacel. Drilling through either of these materials is like drilling into a ball of wool; it just rips everything to shreds.

How does a fibre cable come into a very well sealed house if it has to be drilled through the frame and insulation? Once inside the house, can I use the existing wiring to use additional computers in different rooms?

Thanks and toodle pip]]> https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=18453&Focus=310939#Comment_310939 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=18453&Focus=310939#Comment_310939 Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:29:41 +0100 philedge
Our fibre comes from a pole to the peak of a gable on the house, through the loft and down into an upstairs room. I had to run their cable through the loft. No grey box on the outside but it's in the upstairs room as its needed to join the external fibre cable to the internal cable.....the internal and external works are done by different teams!

Why don't you reopen the thread you had previously on this as all the history is there.]]>