My install is a bit different to the one in that link (though its also underground not via pole).. I have (I think) a single fibre all the way from the street cabinet to my router with no joints.. The guy fed it through the wall in the black jacket, then stripped that back to the thin white jacket inside the white plastic cover box with a bit of spare coiled up).. which runs a couple meters to the router, and that has a little green connector applied directly to it, at the modem.
The fibre is much thinner than the one in those photos attached above.. I was worried about getting it into trunking round a 90 degree bend, but it works fine.
The router is awful.. If you mess with the settings too much.. itll just reset itself to defaults.. When I first got it (6 months ago) changing the SSID on the WiFi was enough to cause problems, though that does seem to have been fixed recently as I can now change that without issue.
That said the WiFi signal is much better than my old superhub, and the XGS-PON itself has been significantly better than my old cable service in my old house.
Had my install on the 8/11/23 after a delay, said a hard dig was needed, when the cable was put under the lawn & across a concrete path Virgin only just arrived on our street,
