Wow, you both made that look easy! Huge amount of work to route a cable!

What a strange breed we are :-) People who love making and people who love watching videos on pulling bits of cable through floors and walls :-) In my life I have pulled thousands of feet of CAT and Power cable, yet I never stop learning new tricks or how to get it wrong by watching other people do it. I really enjoyed this. I never crimp, though. I always punch down.

Great video Vince. Thanks for making this and your older videos. I have cabled every room in my 1890 house to a patch panel in the stairwell using similar techniques. Fiddly but worth it.

It’s nice to see BT doing what virgin have done with their routers for telephones, it’s so useful when you need a phone socket that’s not in the wall

Excellent, I have rewired my new house (dad's old house) following your old videos from a few years ago, with cat6 cables to 12 new sockets...just in case I needed them...... Guess what? I'm getting full fibre installed next week!! I thank you for your excellent knowledge and I'm glad I found your channel when I was renovating my dad's old house. When the guy comes in to set up the fibre and says, this looks ok, I'll just reply, thank my mate Vince! Cheers.

I just recently watched your old Mr Telephone videos again and was pleased to see another similar one. Great work as usual Vince!

Great instructional, I’m a joiner and fishing cables for first fix electrics is such a pain! I’d love a similar video of a CCTV set up from scratch. How to run the cables/ install cameras. I bet your telecom engineering skills would come in handy for that! Quality as always mate

Thanks for the change in place Vince. I like your usual fixes but when I see something different I get real excited

Wow, I am incredibly impressed with your conduit hiding skills! Envious of neat and complete network installation.

I think it’s great to run the cables out of sight. No company will do that on initial installation and it’s a good idea to plan a route yourself. I think we have 2 small cable runs that I cannot hide, but I do live in a turn of the century house. Our daughters partner has done the same as your brother but did manage to get the openreach engineer to fit the termination in the loft where he can get a connection down to his under stair comm’s room!

Great video, I got my ethernet cable run done almost a year ago, some of it going outdoors, using cat6e outdoor cable going through the roof, in preperation for fiber and just last week they install an access point across the street!

Just what I needed to see. Having Ultrafast installed this week and will probably need to do exactly what you’ve shown. Thanks 🙏

Hey Vince Just wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year cheers for the all the awesome videos.

I have been watching you for a long time and I love this kind of content but honestly we love all your content thank you for what you do I have learned so much

Thanks for your video. We had fibre fitted last month and I didn’t realise the hub had built in DECT?! Now I can get rid of one extra thing plugged into the wall 😁👍🏻

I recently went on fibre and the Openreach engineer asked me where I wanted the router, I told him downstairs and he put it there, he ran an outside cable down the outer wall in to my living room, put the box next to one of my electrical plug sockets, job done. None of this ripping up floor boards etc, the guy that did your fibre was lazy and did the easy option.

As an Openreach engineer myself, that FTTP installation was crap. That grey box is the CSP, and is an external box which should only ever be installed just above ground level on the outside wall. If it was installed there at your brother's request, the least they could have done is use an internal version or hidden it in that loft void. They also didn't even run the fibre in and out of it properly, taking it in and out of the wrong ports underneath, etc. Considering he already had Ethernet cables all around the house, what they could have done instead is install the ONT (the white Openreach modem) next to any existing ethernet socket in the house, and then you could have used that to connect back to the BT hub under the stairs instead of you having to rip the house apart.

Ahhh a classic my mate vince video...loved it, thanks to your videos i was able to help my friends with their VDSL and nte faceplates

Loved this.. We went and looked at our new house today and it's got an openreach fibre connection AND a Hyperoptic (1gb) router in the living room cupboard. Can't wait to investigate it further. 😊

wow My Mate Vince that was awsome and amazing keep up the good work up and hope to see more of it

Cool to see how houses are built in other countries, also there is some crazy internet speeds!

Great video mate. I know how to do all of this however it was a nice video to watch the process there

Great Work from Dublin Ireland 🇮🇪 ☘️

Vince love all your videos an I would love to see more videos like this because I live in America an love 🙈 ng the difference between the two keep up the great work

Nice video. Had mine installed today and BT engineer was crap. Put the modem as far away from our living room as he could’ve. I now need to find a fibre extension and move the modem.

Wow, well done. I'd be daunted by that and we're having BT FTTP fitted in a few days. I have that router in its box on my couch waiting until the engineer arrives. Fortunately for us, I think we can use the hole the VirginMedia cable is being removed from.

Should be having my BT Fibre Gigabit installed Wednesday. Can't wait now I'v seen this.

back to the old school! love it. 👍 mr.📞

*You are lucky. In my street, the internet speed is a maximum of 25 Mbps. Makes me want to cry...*

I don't have fiber in my area, but man I wish I did. Enjoyed following along with you.

Good work. I just had to do the same for my BT Fibre installation.

We know INTERNET matters in this house. And I love it.

I need to do something like this really soon. Awesome

Lots of useful information ( including a method for lifting a tongue n groove floorboard ) Cheers 😊

Merry Christmas Vince and it is me Henry I watch your videos every day

Had the same issue when I got FTTP - how to shift the data quick enough. Being in a more modern house I opted to go through the hallow walls and under the bath. Still took months of planning and a full weekend to do it. Funnily enough, I wired the RJ45 plugs using a really old video of yours - worked first time.

this kinda content is such a throwback

I was a big fan of your channel from when I was in SG, I am now in the UK and I use BT as well.. bit spooky that.. I would say that at this point anything above 100mbps is a luxury for most, and not a necessity.. so would be good to avoid the wasted expense and ewaste for buying a new switch.. (I use Powerline and am happy with 30 mbps :D 🙊)

Interesting mate, thank you!

That's really useful. My Virgin router is in the hall. My office is two floors up in the loft extension . My ideal setup would be cabled rather than the homeplug option I'm using at the moment. It means braving the wall cavity though 😲

Nice video! Loved the cabling work :) I have exactly the same fttp bt 920 down 115 up. How ever, just a little fyi: If you are new to bt's fttp and finding your bt router isnt matching the advertised speeds, this is because the new bt home hub maybe locked to their old adsl firmware and needs a little update from bt to unlock its full potential for fttp so you get those juicy fttp speeds. This is what i had to do! Double check with bt if this is case becaues you certainly don't want to go through with all that effort only to find out it was bt fault and not your own wiring.

Very nice job !

Thanks for this. You always explain things in a way I can understand. I'm thinking of switching to BT when my virgin contract ends. It is almost as fast, it's fibre to the premises, and it is two thirds the monthly cost.

knowing Openreach wouldn’t want to run the fibre to where I wanted it, I ran a 20mm conduit from where they’d put the splice box to where I wanted the connection, popped in a draw cord. Openreach engineer very happy, and so am I.

It is a large job cabling up a standard home with cat5/6 if you want a structured cabling system. What you might consider is using a 5 GHz link to bridge the router to your switch if the cable run would be very disruptive to install it. The latest 5 GHz link kit would certainly run up to 100 Bits/s and you can use clean spectrum for it.

I did something similar where I needed my internet on the other side of the house in an extension. I ended up buying a very long run of pre terminated multi mode OM3 fibre and just pulling it instead, which is good up to I believe at least 100Gbps. Figured I would future proof it and it was much cheaper than CAT6e (this was surprising to me as I always thought the opposite).

Well done!

Firstly thanks for the video Vince I thought my 100 m run with cat 7 flat cable was bad, that's a huge amount of work just another consideration for your brother in the future Vince you could invest your own router for example a Wi-Fi 6 router and connect the Ethernet cable from the ONT directly to third-party router so removing the BT router completely. This is what I did, and I get over 900 Mbps via Wi-Fi. My 100 m cable was used to connect my main router AX11000 to my other router ac86u at the other end of the house in a mesh configuration.

Wow my mate vince is back .a legend..🙂

The best plug is the EZ-RJ45. With that plug you can push the wires through then crimp and cut it. When you get older it is harder to see which wires are in the channel of the plug.

Never seen a fibre drop cable before for FTTP, interesting! Where I live in Australia, all of our "neighbourhood" internet infrastructure (e.g. the part that connects the homes and businesses to the internet backbone) is all managed by the government, so all our FTTP installations are the same, and they are all done through underground trunking.

I had the same issue with the ONT being in the opposite side of the house than the network rack. I future-futre proofed the setup by running a armored single mode APC fiber from the termination point (that grey box on the right) down to the network rack and then installed the ONT (that white box on the left) in the network rack. Good times, all UPS backed up too and no random power network device in the fat far away

Here to there over there to there, from here to there, here to here from there to there, very descriptive

Absolutely brill job

good job bro enjoyed this ..

Awesome video 👍🍻

One thing I was a strongly recommended that you have done is dragged two or even three network cables through just in case any of them failed (or use the 3rd cable for hardware wifi ap upstairs)

Fibre. lnternet now. To relocate. Router. Super Quick fiber. Broadband. Like 👍

WOW ! You guys are good .

don't know if anyone said it but the two boxes on the wall at the top why don't you put them on the other side of the so they are hidden when the square panel goes back on

Can't wait for Openreach to reach my home with FTTP, soon!

Some good tips👍

nice to meet your bro

well done mate.

This makes me happy that Virgin haven't bothered to provide fibre in my area but BT are starting to now. Not sure if they are FTTP or FTTC though.

great vid

Brilliant video once again! I find your videos quite good because you explain things in a simple manner for confused people. Could you do a video on the turn off of the copper phone lines and transition to VoIP by 2025 even though I know whats happening and have pre done everything myself I think a video on the topic would get alot of views as alot of the older generation are confused by whats going to happen.

😲😲😲😲😲😲 another video yes yes and yes Vince 😊

do you know how to replace my sky sr203 as its poo and use my new asus dsl-ac55u instead but i have no idea what to do on settings etc etc

This also does great for those who have FiOS or Google Fi here in the States.

Here in the US, if you have 1 Gbps fiber it is usually symmetrical download/upload. Only caveat is that FTTP is mostly in select urban areas. In the town I live in, they are in the process of putting fiber internet in and the 1 Gbps internet goes for $80/mo.

I wish BT had brought my fibre into the top of the house instead of coming into my house at ground level. As I pointed out to the installation engineer, it only takes someone with sidecutters and you've lost your connection including any security connection. You certainly won't be joining your own fibre optic cable any time soon. On that note, my engineer pointed out to me that you have to be very careful how you handle fine fibre optic cable - because you don't want it puncturing the skin and then snapping off inside you!

I just bought a cat 6 cable and run it down the stairs from the third floor to my router in the hall way and I use another router which allows me to have more than one Ethernet port in my room, I only use one wired device at a time. Wi-Fi is ok but the speed is tripled over wired and a solid connection.

Another great video Vince... I am surprised your brother didn't just throw the cable out of the velux window and bring it through the letter box. That would have been a much classier job than removing half the house. Your brother must work out... he has huge biceps. Is he a body builder ?

Woooo BT! Mine came with 2 free telephones they are great! Just uhh well good thing you didn’t have to deal with the 2 giant BBUs they also sent!

BT Wi-Fi discs compatible with SH2 But great video guys really enjoyed it 👍🏻

Good job mate. Tbh I would've just either run the inside out cable to move the ont or router the csp into the cupboard but hey I fit fttp for a living so I'm lucky enough to have a splicer to hand 🤣

Nice video

I'm in South East and fttp was canceled as all under ground, but I got a starlink dish now and have 430mbs so far max :) , ally networking and phone lines moved to the loft :)

Dude, your brother just got fiber installed?! That’s insane, ‘cause I had fiber installed yesterday as well, and I’ve been asking for fiber FOR YEARS ON END! What a bloody coincidence! EDIT: And I can see that your initial plan didn’t pan out the way you’d hope it would. But what are plans for if not for failing and being revised?

Big thumbs up!

If anyone wants to know the name of the cutting tool, it's called an Oscillating Saw... I picked one up similar on ebay for about £35, brilliant bit of kit, my bolt keeps unscrewing though, will have to invest in some PTFE tape to be able to tighten the screw further

Never use washing up liquid Vince, it's designed to dissolve grease and will destroy the insulation on cables, the best thing I find is baby powder, it lowers friction, smells nice and doesn't leave everything in a mess including the inability for insulating tape to adhere.

I had it installed about a year ago and they put it in my garage as thats where the gear was being a newbuild. they wouldnt put it in the main house, so i had to route a cable up through the garage , over the loft and down into the airing cupboard where the router now sits, When a BT tech engineer came out recently to follow up a new improved fibre package he was not happy that i had moved the Router lol , said it should be left where bt put it !! Almost klicked him out

I still need to do mine but i bought around 8 meters of Cat 7 outdoor cable for only £4 so may as well chase it up the wall and into the server room fingers crossed it goes well lol

I need this yesterday! I’m on 13 mbs fibre.

Yes! A how to video!

Plastic curtain track works well for feeding through. Bit tougher than trunking lid. Hope that helps someone.

As an FTTP engineer, I can tell you that whoever did that job was either inexperienced or couldn’t be bothered. A few issues I’ve already spotted: 1: at 3:02 we can see that the fibre only drop wire clamp (FOD) is installed incorrectly. I can see that by the amount of metal protruding from the end of the clamp. These clamps are designed to grip the cable from both sides once it is closed and the tension of the cable will keep pulling the cable tighter therefore the cable doesn’t slip out over time. The way it is installed here can potentially cause premature failure by squashing the delicate fibre inside as the metal insert bites into the fiber too hard or can potentially slip out completely. At the other end of the clamp, the metal part has little teeth that stick out stopping the metal part slipping out, but here they’re not deployed as the metal part is too far out. This is the most concerning issue. 2. The internal grey box is called the CSP - customer splice point and as you pointed out it is meant to be installed externally. Not usually an issue other than aesthetics, but I can see by the entry and exit loops at the bottom the cables are going the wrong way meaning the internal part of the box isn’t dressed as per the instructions. The most delicate part - the splice where the two fibre cabled join is very delicate and this box is designed to house a few metres of extra cable in case the splice fails or for example the internal or external cable is damaged and needs to be replaced, we’d only have to replace one cable and rejoin it to the old one. If the cables are reversed, there is a chance that the cable isn’t siting correctly inside, as there is only one way of installing fibre in these. Also, the white internal cable seems to be completely stripped of its black protective sleeve meaning the gripping screws inside are not protecting the fiber if it is pulled by accident. One can accidentally pull that cable and damage the thin fiber inside or break the splice inside causing failure and complete loss of signal. If the cable breaks in an unfortunate place, it’s likely the whole run of the cable needs to be replaced. The only place the cable can be joined is inside that box. The most obvious solution to me would be to use a internal CSP which is much smaller, place it in a more out of reach position and leave more cable that’s cleated to the wall. 3. The white box with ‘openreach’ written on it is called the ONT. it seems quite loose on the wall, and if that falls off, it can break the fibre going into it, again leaving you with no internet. We’ve had such failure documented this month actually. It may seem like nitpicking, but fiber is very fragile and we get failures all the time and it’s a shame to see this as I would personally not be happy with this install. The points noted are just concerning the longevity of the install and there are ways which were invented to prevent failure and it’s a shame these were not used/used properly. One thing I agree with, is that it’s easier to install the ONT in a safe place and then run cat 5 wherever you want. It saves having fragile fiber running through your house where it’s prone to damage. Fibre has got a lot of tensile strength because of Kevlar inside the cable, but it does not like being bent or squeezed at all. Overall, I’d rate this install 3/10. If this install was audited, I’m 100% sure the engineer would get pulled for those things. Hope this is helpful or at least informative.

How did he get BT to install the grey box inside the property? They insisted it went outside when the did ours.

Wow I gave your cable guys that install the Internet around the place credit I can’t believe how high … they have to go Wow 😯 No way

madness! that's one hell of a fish story :)

Your brother just wants the world doesn't he Jeeze man 🤣

Nice guide for UK houses, most guides I've seen are for American homes which seem to be more drywall and easier to wire up. These past few years I've been using Powerline plugs which have worked well, but I've been putting off running Cat 5e or Cat 6 cables for a while now. The powerline is good but it technically acts like an oldschool Hub and the more plugs and devices talking the more collision avoidance would start to slow down my traffic, so it's time I run proper individual cables to my various switches if I want to run more devices and start streaming Netflix and gaming more.

I work in IT and the speed with which you crimped that cable was impressively fast, I always struggle with getting the wires in the right order.

Bloody hell, that's a bit of a torturous route... we had Cityfibre installed about a year ago now but ours was the other way round (underground fibre coming in on the ground floor of our 3 storey house with the main router in the first floor living room). Cityfibre installed everything on the ground floor as you'd expect. Fortunately they were more or less in line with each other on their respective floors, so I just had to drill through and run a Cat6 cable between the floors, throw an RJ45 socket on each end and plug them in. Think I'd have had a breakdown if I'd had to follow your route lol

07:42 Making good use of the things that we find. Things that the everyday folk leave behind.

Bear in mind -BS 6701:2004 Telecommunications equipment and telecommunications cabling - Specification for installation, operation and maintenance, when it comes to segregation between power and telecommunications circuits. From this Standard we have the requirement to maintain a distance of not less than 50 mm between power cables and communications cables, unless: • There is a non metallic divider between them • The power cables are themselves in an earthed metallic conduit • The power cables are mineral insulated • The power cables are flexible double insulated • The power cables are of an earthed armored construction. Electromagnetic interference, or EMI as it is known, is external interference caused by radio frequency interference (RFI) generated by electromagnetic fields close to data cables. Typically, sources are power cables connecting motors, generators and fluorescent lamps etc'. This can reduce bandwidth in a cable amongst other things. Well done on the installation though it looked like it was a pain.

Well I'm blown away... My 4g gets a staggering 1mbps⬇️ and 3mbps⬆️!!! Thanks MetroPCS!!!

Take half the house apart to upgrade your broadband! I'd have probably done the outside route, but those speeds are seriously fast!