Righty-o .............. we've just received a new communique stating that we can go back to terminating the data-extention cable directly onto the krone terminations of the VDSL frontplate. This is preferred over connecting via the RJ45 method.
Well, I'm glad they finally realised how stupid their previous instruction was then.
It's a shame that what you have/are allowed to do is subject to such contrariness, but hey ho!
So, Kitz, the easiest method of installing FTTC at your premises would be to .......... leave the original NTE5 where it is in the hallway (as it could feed other extention sockets, SKY set-top box, alarm auto-dialler, anything really). Then, ask the engineer (if he can't suss it himself) to terminate the CAT5 pair onto the krone strips of the VDSL frontplate. Now, upstairs, he only has to change the existing telephone extention socket over to a data-extention socket and hey presto ......... job done.
The modem and router can now be sited upstairs and no new wiring need be run.
Yes, it would be, especially as Kitz is unlikely to want to change the location of her equipment room, and it also avoids the need for the (temporary) trailing power socket and DSL filter when testing at the NTE5a test socket.
However, the new instruction leaves an interesting debate on the location of the 'soft' (VDSL) NTE location. IMO, it will remain where it always is, which is now be upstairs
in the VDSL modem (where this is separate). So, no need to traipse back downstairs to test except where there is evidence to believe that the CAT 5 data extension cable (which it has now become) is itself faulty, then?
But somehow I suspect that trailing power socket will still be useful for those 'play-it-by-the-script' sceptics (which excludes you, obviously!)
[Edit] The more I think about it, I suspect that OR will quietly abandon the 'soft' NTE boundary, as, with the new Cab-only installations, the time will come shortly when OR will no longer be providing the VDSL modem, and so won't need to 'support' them like they currently do.
Is there any known instance of OR using TR069 to actively manage any of these modems, e.g. by updating firmware, or (god forbid) switching them off while they work on tone-tracing pairs in a cabinet.