AT&T have just run fiber internet in our neighborhood. They replaced the old wire along the poles with the new and have had work trucks in at out at a couple of my neighbor's homes running the wire from pole to home. I have a question for those of you that use this service (with any provider, I suppose).
When we purchased this house the phone and cable wiring was a HUGE mess. I pulled everything out aside from one phone line from the block to the kitchen. I have never tested it. I never intended to go back with Bell/AT&T and for the last nearly decade cable was the fast player where it came to internet.
My phone and cable block are on the end of the garage, street side. This is the only area of the house over slab, the garage floor. The phone and cable wire went up into the attic from there. This is the corner of the house and getting to that area is nearly impossible at this point.
The first phone termination was the kitchen where it then went down into the basement to connect to the other lines. I re-ran all the cable and have sided the house. When we sided, I ran a feeder cable into the basement and ran all new cable, tied everything into a distro, etc.
All that to say that basically, where the phone block is now there is no way to run a concealed wire back inside the house without removing siding, which I am not inclined to do. It's that cement board stuff, hardy plank? If it were vinyl, it would make things so much simpler...
To get to the point. If you have swapped over to fiber from the traditional copper line, I would assume they run the fiber (or some new wire) from the pole to the block. From that point, where and what gets pulled into the house?
The only fiber installs I have seen were at other folk's house and really didn't take any time to actually look it over. I have been an installer for years, but this particular situation is a bit tricky without running something visible along the side of the house or inside the garage.
Edit- To be clearer about what I am asking. Do they bring the 'fiber' connection from the street to the phone block and then another fiber into the house? Do they run the same wire inside to the equipment?
IE, if I were going to set this up the way I want the tech to run the wire, do I go find a piece of fiber and run it myself, set up a pull string?
When we purchased this house the phone and cable wiring was a HUGE mess. I pulled everything out aside from one phone line from the block to the kitchen. I have never tested it. I never intended to go back with Bell/AT&T and for the last nearly decade cable was the fast player where it came to internet.
My phone and cable block are on the end of the garage, street side. This is the only area of the house over slab, the garage floor. The phone and cable wire went up into the attic from there. This is the corner of the house and getting to that area is nearly impossible at this point.
The first phone termination was the kitchen where it then went down into the basement to connect to the other lines. I re-ran all the cable and have sided the house. When we sided, I ran a feeder cable into the basement and ran all new cable, tied everything into a distro, etc.
All that to say that basically, where the phone block is now there is no way to run a concealed wire back inside the house without removing siding, which I am not inclined to do. It's that cement board stuff, hardy plank? If it were vinyl, it would make things so much simpler...
To get to the point. If you have swapped over to fiber from the traditional copper line, I would assume they run the fiber (or some new wire) from the pole to the block. From that point, where and what gets pulled into the house?
The only fiber installs I have seen were at other folk's house and really didn't take any time to actually look it over. I have been an installer for years, but this particular situation is a bit tricky without running something visible along the side of the house or inside the garage.
Edit- To be clearer about what I am asking. Do they bring the 'fiber' connection from the street to the phone block and then another fiber into the house? Do they run the same wire inside to the equipment?
IE, if I were going to set this up the way I want the tech to run the wire, do I go find a piece of fiber and run it myself, set up a pull string?
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