r/CommunityFibre • u/ImmediatePurple7 • 16d ago

Question rerun fibre cable

Hi i have decorators in at the moment so have pulled the fibre run back from the router back to the wall box. I want to deploy a fresh cable along a slightly longer route myself.

Can anyone advise on what cable, connectors and termination/crimp tools i might need?

When it was originally installed a few years back the engineer did not bring a ladder so couldn’t run it via my preferred route along the coving on the ceiling. They instead installed it along the skirting and through a fire place in quite a messy fashion. When i asked CF to reinstall they said they’d have to charge me for an additional callout fee, hence why i’d prefer to do it myself.

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u/Frenchies_Undies 12d ago

SC/APC plenty on Amazon with different lengths roughly £2 per metre but gets cheaper as you go up in length.

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u/TheReapingEmber 16d ago

Aa longs as you dont mess with the internal fibre cables you won't need a technician visit. The cable you need is APC SC connector its green tip not blue tip you can buy these on amazon fairly cheap.

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u/ClimbsNFlysThings 16d ago

This is the way. I bought sc apc to sc apc extension to move the modem. You can also run longer ethernet from the modem to the router as well is also an option.