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Originally Posted by pitrack_1

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It means you get a delicate (very easy to damage) little fibre running into your house instead of a copper wire.

false, it's placed in the same conduit as the copper.
more flexible than copper (more resistant to damage)

It means you get a couple of extra boxes mounted somewhere for conversion as the fibre needs to be converted to...copper wire to talk to everything else anyway!

false, your router plugs into the 1gbit lan conection

If you get it done, make sure the boxes are properly mounted in a safe, dry, protected, ventilated but accessible space. And what's inside (one of the) boxes? Why it seems to be a DSL/ADSL modem...You may have other converter boxes too (even ADSL filters) to use your everyday phones, faxes, etc.

no filter needed as the phone has it's own ip address.

It means you have one line for your phone, fax, internet, auto-dial alarm system, etc. So when it's damaged, you lose everything. Not good for a doctor 2 days before Easter.

there are five ip addresses to use if need be, you are allocated two as standard
one for comp and one for phone

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