Hello,
This morning, the fiber guys visited and laid a cable from the property line to the house where we planned to have it enter.
The house we live in is from the 70s and consists of a wooden frame with a brick facade, the basement is habitable.
The fiber is laid at a depth of 30 cm and will enter a storage room a few square meters in the basement, which means that right now the cable ends up in the middle of the wall. My idea is to dig down a bit so that the cable can enter along the floor in the storage room.
1. What do you drill with here? Do you use a hammer drill? Any specific type of drill? Dimension? Should it be insulated in some way? Am I generally the one doing this?
Once the cable is brought into the basement storage, it will be connected to X number of products here, when that's done the cable should continue out into a large living room (through the wall). I know there are surface-mounted conduit pipes right here. When the cable reaches the living room, it should go up to the ceiling where I drill up to the entrance floor.
2. Do I use the same drill to drill in the inner wall? The walls seem to consist of some kind of lecablock just like the outer walls.
3. When I drill up to the entrance floor, I assume it's a wood drill that's necessary, is there anything to keep in mind here? We have a floor nearby on the entrance floor that has underfloor heating but it should not go under this wardrobe.
Once in the closet on the entrance floor, it should go inside the closet in the corner up to the ceiling where it goes through and further up to the attic.
In the attic, the cable is routed to the hall where it goes down into a small cabinet where I have a WiFi router and switch. I have previously had a network routed in larger parts of the house and everything goes to this cabinet where there is currently a switch, router, and modem. The reason for keeping the WiFi router there is to get good coverage.
The cable from the basement I plan to run in cable trunking along walls and flex pipes e.g. inside the closet and in the attic.
4. Is there anything else one should consider here?
This morning, the fiber guys visited and laid a cable from the property line to the house where we planned to have it enter.
The house we live in is from the 70s and consists of a wooden frame with a brick facade, the basement is habitable.
The fiber is laid at a depth of 30 cm and will enter a storage room a few square meters in the basement, which means that right now the cable ends up in the middle of the wall. My idea is to dig down a bit so that the cable can enter along the floor in the storage room.
1. What do you drill with here? Do you use a hammer drill? Any specific type of drill? Dimension? Should it be insulated in some way? Am I generally the one doing this?
Once the cable is brought into the basement storage, it will be connected to X number of products here, when that's done the cable should continue out into a large living room (through the wall). I know there are surface-mounted conduit pipes right here. When the cable reaches the living room, it should go up to the ceiling where I drill up to the entrance floor.
2. Do I use the same drill to drill in the inner wall? The walls seem to consist of some kind of lecablock just like the outer walls.
3. When I drill up to the entrance floor, I assume it's a wood drill that's necessary, is there anything to keep in mind here? We have a floor nearby on the entrance floor that has underfloor heating but it should not go under this wardrobe.
Once in the closet on the entrance floor, it should go inside the closet in the corner up to the ceiling where it goes through and further up to the attic.
In the attic, the cable is routed to the hall where it goes down into a small cabinet where I have a WiFi router and switch. I have previously had a network routed in larger parts of the house and everything goes to this cabinet where there is currently a switch, router, and modem. The reason for keeping the WiFi router there is to get good coverage.
The cable from the basement I plan to run in cable trunking along walls and flex pipes e.g. inside the closet and in the attic.
4. Is there anything else one should consider here?
The fiber stops at the fiber box, and from there it's a network cable that's needed. I don't see any direct disadvantage to having the box in the middle of the wall instead of down on the floor?
Are you going to connect things in the living room and the hallway along the way? Otherwise, it might be just as well to run the cable through the same hole where the fiber comes in, straight up to the attic on the outside. That way, you don't need to drill as many holes and avoid a lot of bends in the cable.
Are you going to connect things in the living room and the hallway along the way? Otherwise, it might be just as well to run the cable through the same hole where the fiber comes in, straight up to the attic on the outside. That way, you don't need to drill as many holes and avoid a lot of bends in the cable.
Yes, I was also thinking about this, you won't want the fiber box on the floor anyway, so it might be just as well to place the box where the cable goes directlyAnna_H said:
The installer, of course, wanted to put a baseboard on the outside of the facade and run it up to the attic there, but we want to avoid that for aesthetic reasons.Anna_H said:
The network cable from the fiber box should not be connected to anything other than the router or switch located in the hallway on the entry-level. The first idea was to go under the hallway instead in the basement and take it straight up into the hallway from there. However, the problem is that under the hallway in the basement there is a toilet, where you don't want unnecessary cables, another problem is that there is a large water-based floor in the hallway and toilet directly above, and there you certainly don't want to drill.
So to get a more discrete installation, we decided to bring the fiber into the storage room which is slightly under the hallway on the entry-level and directly under the toilet on the entry-level. We connect what is needed in the storage room and run the LAN cable out through the storage room and up into a closet on the entry-level where it continues up to the attic. In the attic, it connects to all the other network cables that continue into the network cabinet in the hallway on the entry-level.
Here again, one can consider whether the router and switch should perhaps have been in the attic instead, but I want to be able to access things if there are issues without going up to the attic. Additionally, there are a few things to consider when it's in a cold and humid attic.
Fiber ducts are usually brought into houses above ground to reduce the risk of leakage. I suspect the ducts are not 100% tight and if luck is not on your side, water can enter the house through the ducts. Additionally, the sealing of the duct against the house foundation can leak. Usually, the fiber installer drills the hole in the foundation. The division of responsibility between the customer and the fiber installer is usually stated in the contract.snowjim said:
It certainly varies depending on the fiber provider. In the cases I know of, the network owner handles the drilling in the exterior wall. They usually seal and finish with a fiber outlet on the inside of the wall when it comes to Open fiber. From there, it's not a network cable, but a fiber patch to the media converter. From there, it's network cable/cables to the router, switch, etc.
Sounds complicated. Are you going to run fiber through all those rooms to get to where the router is located? The fiber can't be bent with a radius smaller than around 6 cm, so it's difficult to make it look nice in inhabited areas. Usually, the media converter is placed as close as possible to the incoming fiber, in the basement in this case, and from there you run a network cable to where you want the router. Network cable is easier to run indoors.
Just make sure to have a power outlet where the fiber comes into the converter.
I had the fiber installer mount the fiber outlet as high up as possible in the basement storage. This means drilling a hole from there to the outside that slopes downward. On the outside, a galvanized cable protection 16/22 mm is placed on the basement wall, and you can then paint the cable protection in the same color as the basement wall.
But there are different ways to install, so if you can specify who the fiber operator is, you can get better assistance.
But there are different ways to install, so if you can specify who the fiber operator is, you can get better assistance.