VDSL faceplate question

gtg60

So, finally, my exchange has been upgraded and just ordered fibre and told the usual 'wait for eircom engineer to install', have a few questions I would appreciate if somebody could answer.

From reading here I understand that the engineer will give me a new VDSL faceplate and I assume my ISP (Vodafone) will give me a new modem/router, what is different about the faceplate? What modem/router am I likely to be supplied? And what cabling is used to connect it to the faceplate?

Have ran a cable from my existing faceplate to my router in the attic so want to have everything ready to go when the engineer arrives.

phog

Have a read if the eircom fibre rollout thread. All your questions are probably covered there and a few photos.

The cable you ran from you connection to where you want the modem needs to be Cat5.

crawler

gtg60 wrote: »

So, finally, my exchange has been upgraded and just ordered fibre and told the usual 'wait for eircom engineer to install', have a few questions I would appreciate if somebody could answer.

From reading here I understand that the engineer will give me a new VDSL faceplate and I assume my ISP (Vodafone) will give me a new modem/router, what is different about the faceplate? What modem/router am I likely to be supplied? And what cabling is used to connect it to the faceplate?

Have ran a cable from my existing faceplate to my router in the attic so want to have everything ready to go when the engineer arrives.

Modem is the Huawei HG658c
New faceplate has two ports - one for phone, one for broadband - replaces existing face plate
Cat-5 is fine for extending service or use home plugs
HG658c supports mimo wifi and 802.11b/g/n so provided you have a good wireless card in PC laptop (with "n") then you should get good connectivity anyway