Subj : Re: fibre experience, anyone?
To : Ogg
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat Apr 20 2024 11:58 am
-=> Ogg wrote to All <=-
Og> Anyone here have techinal insights and experience about fibre
Og> installations?
Og> I was scheduled to have a fibre installation the other day.
Og> First, the tech was given the wrong address. After that was
Og> rectified, he told me that he was told that my building "didn't
Og> qualify", even though we could see spare loops of fibre cable
Og> on some nearby poles, *and* there were even two spare ports on
Og> the terminal. My neighbor had a fibre feed to his building, no
Og> problem.
I'm considering AT&T Fiber, been concerned about the install. We have
fiber on the pole, we have a long stretch that crosses the street
between poles. AT&T Fiber is the lowest on the pole, and my neighbor
has had his knocked down thrice in as many years by passing trucks. It
takes AT&T a day to dispatch a guy in a van to look at it, confirm that
it's cut, and call for a truck - which takes a week or so to repair the
line.
There's a logical place to bring the line in, but I'd need to run the
fiber along the roof to get into where I'd want to bring the fiber in.
I'll probably need to have my own cable/path run for that.
Rumor has it they don't use exterior ONTs any more - it would be nice
if they could hand off copper at the outside of the building and save
me from having to route fiber through the wall, but you need to route
power from somewhere.
If they can get fiber into my office, which is on the outside of the
house near where they'd bring the fiber in, I'd be golden.
Og> When I asked what "didn't qualify" meant, all he could tell me
Og> was that first there wasn't any "assignment" for my address -
Og> which was later corrected - but something else is behind the
Og> "didn't qualify". As a tech installer, he had no idea what is
Og> behind those classifications. With two spare "unassigned"
Og> ports, that seemed strange to the tech. He was simply told
Og> that they weren't available to use.
