Hi, due to get FTTP installed next week. Currently have sky ADSL broadband with router centrally in the house in a cupboard under the stairs. There is an ethernet network socket in this cupboard with Ethernet running from the router to 4 rooms in the house (all installed during building work/conversion). The questions I have are:
1) What are the prospects of Openreach installing the FTTP equipment in such a way that allows me to be able to keep the router in the cupboard under the stairs (which would involve a bit of work running cables behind walls etc I imagine), therefore maintaining my current ethernet network?
2) If for some reason the FTTP equipment has to be installed in a more "convenient" location for the engineer eg at one end of the house, does the router have to be next to it? And if so, if it was in one of the rooms where there ethernet network runs to, would it be possible to connect the router back to the central network socket (in the cupboard under the stairs) along the existing network, and then using a splitter run the ethernet "back on itself" at the network socket to the other 3 rooms in the house that the ethernet network runs to?
Not sure if that makes any sense but hopefully you'll see what I'm getting at! Essentially I'm keen to maintain my current ethernet network with the new installation.
Thanks
1) What are the prospects of Openreach installing the FTTP equipment in such a way that allows me to be able to keep the router in the cupboard under the stairs (which would involve a bit of work running cables behind walls etc I imagine), therefore maintaining my current ethernet network?
2) If for some reason the FTTP equipment has to be installed in a more "convenient" location for the engineer eg at one end of the house, does the router have to be next to it? And if so, if it was in one of the rooms where there ethernet network runs to, would it be possible to connect the router back to the central network socket (in the cupboard under the stairs) along the existing network, and then using a splitter run the ethernet "back on itself" at the network socket to the other 3 rooms in the house that the ethernet network runs to?
Not sure if that makes any sense but hopefully you'll see what I'm getting at! Essentially I'm keen to maintain my current ethernet network with the new installation.
Thanks