So, the tradesmen are in my house at the moment making a complete mess and taking forever to install the OTO.
For someone who went through this process, how long did it take from OTO installation to it being lit up and able to sign-up with a provider.
Making a mess? Strange, “my guy” didn’t make any mess at all.
It’s been quiet a while and I’m a tenant. They did all flats in two houses so I guess I had to wait until they were all done but afaIremember when the guy is done, it works.
So if you live in your own house I would say - tonight? Then of course it depends on your provider. If you ask the guy now what OTO-ID you will have you could speed that up by a few hours I guess 
It was quick and easy here, no mess. They gave us some information and it was done.
Dust from drilling through several walls, muddy feet and spilled lubricant everywhere when fishing the fiber through the conduits.
OTO-ID is already stuck on the box 
Your house has no wireways? You do have electricity though, right?
They pulled it all through the old phone-wire ways here. No more use for those anyway.
that’s already installed? Or are you sneaking through his tools. Well then go for it, chose the provider.
I might have to be more patient. Just checked online and Swisscom says April 2026.
huh?! We had our fiber to the home installed a decade ago by our local internet provider, InterGGA. Our place had the internal wiring, so no drilling was necessary, it all took 10 min really. He just plugged in the modem, tested it and waved us goodbye.
Btw, unfortunately, our wiring is only CAT6A, has anybody went through the process of upgrading to CAT8? If there’s a magical way to do it without drilling, I’d do it.
Yep, they installed fibre in the village a while back and they’re in the process of getting it to all the properties who signed up for it which I suspect is all of them because why wouldn’t they when it’s been done for free. They brought it to our house back in October then a different team did the internal part a couple of weeks later so we have everything there ready to go but according to Swisscom it will be October before we get it because they want all the properties to be equipped beforehand.
They didn’t make a mess on the inside but we did have to walk a narrow plank over a big hole to get in through the front door for a few days when they were doing the external work. They put the paving back really well when they were finished though.
How fast do you want your internal network to be?
I have a homeserver and ripped blu rays stored on the server lag when streamed over the network to my nVidia Shield. I think at peak a blu ray requires 50 Mbps (someone correct me if I’m wrong). In theory, CAT6A should be plenty, but somehow it isn’t. At the same time, when i plug in an external HD with a bluray movie, it plays without lag
I assume you mean you need 50 MB/s. This is easily handled with a 2.5Gbps network and Cat 6a should be fine.
I recently put in 6a and run 2.5Gbps network. 300 MB/s no problem.
Nvidia shield anyway only supports gigabit ethernet.
LOL, most people check that first.
I’m hoping that is just out of date