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Hi

We are converting a public house to 18 flats over 4 floors and 1 landlord communial

We are in the middle of first fixing ie electrics and fire alam

We have a meter room in the basement where all the utilies be situated.

We would like to serve each flat with a telephone and ethernet point with the thought of each tenant having there own router and service provider (billed for each flat)

Thers plenty of room in the basement for the incoming
So how will this work will the service provider install in each flat? Or do i cable from each flat to the basement?
 
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Could you allow for a service duct, or even a 25mm conduit from each flat to that meter room? The choice is then left with the installer, what he installs.
 
Hmmmm

Very dificult flats are all over the place and noise impact and all that carry on
 
You need to provide an accessible duct from the meter room to each flat. Most flats will have a single unit comprising modem and WiFi router. The feed from the street to that unit will be different types of cable depending on the service provider and they will want to install it. If the modems are shut away in the meter room they will still need separate routers in the flats.
All new telephone installations are VOIP over broadband, so separate phone lines would be redundant.
 
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Ah so if the service proviser installs modems.in the meter room than cat 5/6 to each flat??
What is all in on modem/ wifi router that will be situated in the flats so what cable for that?

Thanks
 
The service provider usually installs the one combined unit. If that is put in the meter room then another router will be needed in the flat, so that doubles up the equipment. Also it is sometimes necessary for the user to make adjustments or reset the modem which is difficult if it is locked away in a meter room.
The service provider's cable could be fibre or coaxial - both of which will be connected by them. If they are not able to run this internally there will be a demand to run it on the outside of the building and drill through walls which may conflict with lease covenants or need for wayleaves..
Both Openreach and Virgin Media publish guidelines for site developers and you should check these out.
 
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if each flat is to have their own router fit cat 6 to each flat and leave in the basement for the service provider engineer to pick up on... mark each flat number on each cable
 
I would run a cat 5/6 and a phone cable to be on the safe side ….the cable is cheap enough , people go on about fibre but is it actually available in your area ? It may be fibre to the cabinet only ?
 
A single ethernet will be useless to someone who wants Virgin Media. It requires a splitter on the incoming coax feed with one coax to the modem and another coax to each video box. That will all have to be within the flat.

Get the official guidelines from the ISPs.
 
Spoke to virginmedia construction.
They advised to run rg11 to each flat from the meter room in the basement.
Just 1 RG11 in each flat, telehone will come from the unit in the flat
 
Yes as I said, the splitter and modem will be fitted in the flat by Virgin Media when the user subscribes.

But Openreach customers (BT etc) will need something entirely different. And if one of the smaller fibre companies covers that area, something different again.

The one thing they all have in common is that none will use a separate phone line on a new installation.
 
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Im waiting for a callback from Openreach landlord department and see what they say
 
Which cable do we need to each room?
A minimum of 2 off CAT5 or better CAT6 cables; a telephone will work on CAT5 or 6 cable.
However if you are planning on providing communication services to each flat from a central point you need to consider that Fibre To The Premises (i.e. individual flats) is going to be in place in the very near future so a duct from central point to each flat would seem to be a better idea.
 

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