Subj : AT&T Fiber - installation questions?
To : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Apr 14 2025 10:08 am
Re: AT&T Fiber - installation questions?
By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Mon Apr 14 2025 07:58 am
PF> I'm looking at AT&T fiber, and I'm curious as to other fiber users what
PF> your experience has been.
PF> How well did they run the fiber into your house?
PF> Is the box they hand off the fiber to interior or exterior? Do you get to
PF> choose? From what I understand, they can either put a powered ONT on the
PF> outside of the house and deliver copper into the house, or bring fiber in
PF> and use an interior ONT, then hand off copper to their modem. I have a
PF> copper terminating block that's near a protected power plug, I could run
PF> the wire from a wall wart to an external ONT easily.
PF> Do they do a pre-install visit/survey to let you know their options?
PF> Did they run cabling inside of interior walls, or just poke through where
PF> they could?
I've had fiber internet for almost the last 10 years, thought not from AT&T. When I first got it, I was living in a house that already had an ONT on the outside, and there was an ethernet port from the ONT going to inside one of the rooms of the house. The fiber company may have been the ones that ran the ethernet cable (along the outside of the house) to the ethernet port inside.
I'm currently living in an apartment, using fiber from the same company, and the ONT is on the inside (in one of the bedroom closets). The ONT was also already here when I moved in.
The fiber company doesn't have a modem, just an ONT, and you can plug a router into the ONT via the ethernet connection. The fiber company can let you lease a router, or you can buy your own router and use that (which is what I'm doing).
I suppose it wouldn't hurt to ask them what they'd do for the installation and see how flexible they'd be.
Nightfox
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