Fibre-optic connections at last in South Tenerife

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

Just in case, you had better clear your calendar of any other commitments for the next three months so that you are free for Movistar to arrive.

[NAH]

... my existing ADSL socket is hidden behind a large cupboard... which supports (and is screwed to) one side of a bridging unit which is screwed to the wall 

If it's FTTP it has nothing to do with your ADSL / phone connection and therefore access will not be required to the phone socket, unless they intend to pull the fibre through that conduit and terminate in a new face plate next to it.

When we had our fibre installed it was pulled through an existing (unused) conduit which terminated behind a blanking plate on the wall behind our TV unit, which is the other side of the room to the phone socket.

[Nova]

What if all my conduits come out behind the cupboard?    Ok, not all, obviously, but all the electric/ADSL/coaxial sockets on that side of the room are behind the same cupboard, and I think my router has to connect to the TV box with LAN, which is why it's all there together.

I wonder though, I do have at least three ADSL sockets in this apartment.  Do you think they'll put fibre to them all or will the others be rendered useless leaving me with just one internet socket for the fibre?

[Delderek]

I believe the modem which is where the fibre terminates has to be connected to your router via Ethernet. So I would think all other sockets would no longer carry broadband connections.

[NAH]

The fibre will have a single point of presence within the apartment. The fibre terminates on a standard square plastic face plate (in the UK these are 86mm x 86mm) and will connect to the modem/router (one single device) using a fibre patch cable. You connect to the router either with LAN or Wifi to get an internet connection. The limitation will be if a device (your TV box) does not have Wifi then obviously you will have to use LAN.

Forget ADSL, once you switch to fibre those phone sockets will cease to be ADSL sockets, unless Movistar don't terminate that service but I can't believe that.

The fibre will need to be pulled in existing conduit to somewhere within the apartment, the modem/router will require a wall outlet to provide power and coax is irrelevant (with the exception of the fact it will already be run inside conduit)

Does that answer your questions?

[NAH]

I seem to re-call you were using powerline adaptors, obviously they will continue to work fine. New router to powerline adaptor then the other end powerline adaptor to device just like before.

[Nova]

   No powerline adaptors, no, just a repeater. My point about the coax is that all the conduits on that wall come out behind the cupboard. There's no point putting the fibre into the other wall because I don't particularly want the router to live on the dining table or with its power cable trailing across the floor. I think they're going to have to move the cupboard......

[Marion]

Or they might say moving a cupboard is not our job......

[Nova]

Or they might say moving a cupboard is not our job......

I know, that's what worries me. But they'll have to at least help me because I can't move it on my own. Even the handyman who put it up originally needed me to take the weight of the bridging unit while he screwed it to the wall. I'm not even attempting it on my own.

[Marion]

Could th y access the conduit through a hole cut in the back of the cupboard? I'm presuming it is made of hardboard and not some really expensive cupboard with fact wood at the back. I've got holes in mine in Scotland to access power points etc.