When BT shipped our SmartHub they forgot to put the network cable in box.
So from fibre modem on wall to hub we handed the BT installer a standard patch cable I rescued from a datacentre years ago. It actually has “Enhanced Cat 5 ETL Verified Patch Cable” stamped on it 
Works absolutely perfectly.
Yes it is a regular 4P Ethernet lead is fine … because it is actually Ethernet. (But keep seperate from your LAN)
@Simon-in-Suffolk are you able to guide me as to what this means,…
A55 raised for new CBT
I don’t know what all the acronyms mean,
Howard
The main reason for changing from BT Openreach to Giagclear was the service issues we were having. After a year of problems and many Engineers visits, they identified the problem of the connection in the box in grass verge down the road. They advised that the existing copper was so corroded that they couldn’t cut it back anymore and a new cable to the house was required.
This meant digging up the verge, the path, lifting my block paving to lay the new cable, as with the age of house, the cable was not in trunking.
As this would still only provide FTTC with speeds of 70/18mbs, I decided that if digging was required, I may as well go with Giagclear and get 200/200mbs, for less than one third of the BT, plus I never used the landline.
Giagclear order placed, survey done and installation arranged. On the day of the installation, the fibre from the POT Box was put underneath the driveway gravel, then a Stihl Disc Cutter was used to put a thin slit in the path for the fibre, then connected to the Junction Box on the external wall.
One Engineer then made all the internal connections, whilst the second Engineer filled the slot in the path with resin, then came inside to assist his colleague.
All very neat and tidy, very quick and done in about 45 minutes, including set up and training for me.
BT cancelled and job done.
DG…
I assume this is for the install by Openreach or other infra provider?
A CBT is a connector block terminal, and is used to connect the fibre drop line typically from a pole or underground box to your premise and ONT.
No idea what an A55 is … possibly an order request.
On the roads surround ours, but not ours sadly, Toob appear to have a partial system of ducting that links between existing Open Reach poles and connection pits.
Thank you - appreciate your guidance here.
I shall chase the ISP/Openreach for clarity
Well I now have BT FTTP!
After a bit of non information and poor communication from BT/Open Reach when I was told that my original outside installation was provisional, I came home from walking the dog to find the OR engineer working in our drive and pulling the fibre through to the outside of our house, actually the garage!
So far so good, he was very helpful and terminated the cable in the best position for us. CIRCET arrived 10 days later to make the internal connection, which according to the engineers (there were two of them) usually takes 20- 60 mins,
2 1/2 hours later it was completed. Without my input they would have packed up and left after an hour or so as it was all bit difficult for them. But we’re now up and running at 900+Mb wired to my com Peter, the WiFi speed is a problem, see following topic.
Not overly impressed with their work, the photo on the BT website shows a nice neat outside installation, ours is a bit of a mess here are a couple of photos:
The Reality:
Only the thin cable is the fibre installation, it looks a bit vulnerable to me.
Oh well it works!
Chris
What a mess! 
Get 'em told. Water ingress is just waiting to happen.
BT still can’t drill brickwork then 
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ATB, J
Err… that doesn’t look right. BT Openreach are normally anal on this stuff… I wonder if it was a contract agency.
Simon it was Circet as a contractor to BT, I will contact them!
Are you happy to say how much you are paying BT per month? Our 900Mbps with Toob is £29 a month. BT isn’t available here at the moment.
Nige, who are you using for email serving? (I know that Toob don’t do email)
After the Openreach engineer finished fitting my full fibre, i was disappointed to see the old obsolete copper cable left dangling on the outside brickwork… so asked for it to be removed but was told it was a job for the recycle team to visit on another day to remove it. 
Six months later it’s still there and no sign of any recycle remover person.
I’d like to rip this old cable out myself but i know this old (1989) copper cable is still connected below the BT manhole cover.
So if it’s still connected maybe best not (?)
That is an appalling installation, no protection whatsoever.
I would certainly complain and get them to re-do it.
Not only potential water ingress, but general security for your internet service, particularly if you have any burglar alarms / CCTV systems.
DG…
I’ve used Gmail for years.
I use Ionos for my email.
Got a domain and 3 email addresses years ago.
It doesn’t matter which broadband company I use ,I just keep the same email.
Doesn’t cost much and you can personalise it to your name
Ie, fred@brown.co.uk
