09-03-2025 12:59 PM
Hi ... I have just renewed my contract with EE was a BT FTTC customer and I will be getting FTTP on the 26/03/25 . I just wanted to check/make sure that Openreach can place the ONT where my router is currently in the hall way and place the wire from the front door wall. I live in an old brick house and it's imperative my router box stays in the hallway so I get the best WIFI signal throughout. Please can anyone help with my concerns. I don't want the ONT box in the front rooms as that will cause issues with WIFI. The telegraph pole is right outside my house. I just want to keep my router where it is currently and don't want it moving. Thank you.
09-03-2025 02:41 PM
We downsized to a new little townhouse a decade ago. Boring as hell, but the estate uses pavement ducting, then individual house ducting. I saw OR pulling the fibre up and got my FTTP order in a nanosecond after. Originally, the deal (BT) was Fibre 100 for the same price as we’d been paying for FTTC then abt a week later, they offered an upgrade to Fibre 900 for £1 pm more. Well, that was a tricky one 😂
From the house external box the fibre runs across the front outside then curves gently up, through the wall and into the ONT the other side. So right angle changes no good, but gentle curves should be OK. Certainly, ours is fine. I can now print from downstairs to the Epson upstairs, which I couldn’t w the BT router. A WiFi TV and assorted Alexas upstairs are fine too. For my main internet device, the EE app speedtests as this:
That side of things, I’m happy with.
TV/SIMs, not so much.
09-03-2025 02:41 PM
@Axx If you are getting new EE Router/Smart Wireless etc, JUST hang on to any BT Equipment until you are 100% happy, there is 60 Day's before returned has to happen so no rushing to post anything back....
09-03-2025 02:55 PM
Not everyone has found the new EE kit better than what they’d had. Your old router would need to be suitable for fibre tho.
09-03-2025 02:58 PM
Hmm I won't be posting my BT router back in a hurry but just depends what happens on the install day.
09-03-2025 03:52 PM - edited 09-03-2025 04:09 PM
OR are pretty flexible where the ONT will go, particularly on the same side of the house as the telephone pole, & will fit in with your requirements as to its positioning as long as there's a spare power socket nearby.
From where they fit the external junction box they can run any length of cable to the point on the outside wall opposite to where the ONT is to be positioned, e.g.:
09-03-2025 03:56 PM
Thank you.. I really hope so.