05-06-2022, 11:19 AM
(08-05-2022, 05:55 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: I would like mine moved. The young person who installed it put it just above the skirting. With the connection ports facing down. For an old lady...If your Chorus ONT box is like mine, I'll tell you what you can do.
Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.
The outermost box is held on by a plastic clip on each side, about 1 inch square. Loosen them with a small screwdriver or whathaveyou pried in the side until you get the clips loose and then lift it off. Pull out the fibre connector by pulling on the plug, not the fibre. Comes out easily.
At this point you may be able to rotate the box 180 degrees and clip it back on, job done. I can't be bothered trying it.
If it doesn't fit, then remove the lid of the innermost box, same thing, a plastic clip either side which are hidden by the outer clips. Then you get to the plastic mount screwed to the wall which can be rotated 180 degrees, probably the screw holes will line up. The mount has a few inches of fibre (etc) coiled inside the mount which gives you confidence that a further 180 degree rotation won't be a problem. Then clip it all back together. The fibre connector has a key on the plug and just pushes in easily. Obviously a fibre terminated on a plug in a socket is designed to be disconnected and reconnected without causing a problem, I've done mine several times to pull a new CAT6 cable down the wall and bring it out of the baseplate knockouts to make a tidy wired connection between the router and television.
Lastly, the installer probably left a few metres of fibre cable coiled in the roof or tucked in the wall, which would allow you to move the ONT a few metres without any trouble, aside from needing to make a new hole in the wall with a clear path for the cables through the joist, fill the old hole etc. Treat the fibre gently, don't kink or twist it, don't touch the end of the connector, don't use it as a draw wire...