What are these cables for?

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Yoshinoya

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#306918 3-Sep-2023 14:15

I have a new build that needs to be hooked up to fibre.

There are these cables on the outside of the house (two blue Ethernet from the house and one white from ground through the pipe)

How will these be connected to fibre? Will the ONT be mounted outside?

RunningMan

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#3123304 3-Sep-2023 14:16

1) Photo? What is the white one? Optic@t?

2) ONT must be inside and connected power.

Yoshinoya

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#3123305 3-Sep-2023 14:18

Sorry. Photo now posted. White cable doesn’t look like optical. Looks like Ethernet but not sure.

Jiriteach

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#3123306 3-Sep-2023 14:20

When you order Fibre and a technician visits the house from the LFC - they will use those cables to wire up to the inside to install the ONT.
Most new builds have some form of a FTTH cabinet. One of those cables outside should be able to be used as a pull cable for the technician.

The outside termination point will be installed close to or where those cables are. That provides the physical connection to fibre in the street. The outside termination point is then connected internally where the ONT is installed. You can then connect your router to the ONT and distribute accordingly.

So no need to worry about those cables - the Chorus (other other LFC) technician will use them to sort your fibre install. Will look all clean and nice when done :)

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#3123308 3-Sep-2023 14:29

The ethernet might just be being used as a draw-wire so that the fibre techs can pull through an optical cable into the network cabinet.

djtOtago

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#3123391 3-Sep-2023 18:44

It possible the white cable is a Hybrid cable. A couple of fibre cores through the middle surrounded by 8 or so copper wires.

Brunzy

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#3123394 3-Sep-2023 19:16

The ethernet cables look like they are going through a hole in the wall behind the pipe ,and not sealed up.

RunningMan

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#3123397 3-Sep-2023 19:52

The blue ethernet cables run to the outside is probably not that helpful - it's the old way of running cabling to a copper ETP. With a fibre termination there, the best way is either a draw wire and conduit to get to the internal ONT location or optic@t to the same location.

Guessing a Chorus area by the green conduit, but they generally like to run their own fibre up the conduit, depending on how it's termianted at the street end.

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#3123400 3-Sep-2023 20:18

Yoshinoya: Sorry. Photo now posted. White cable doesn’t look like optical. Looks like Ethernet but not sure.

It has an identifier printed at intervals. You can see it on the loop to the right with the white paint splash.

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#3123414 3-Sep-2023 21:50

Hi as others have said the white cable looks like opti5e, which is a combo cable of four cat5e pairs and a bundle of two single mode fibres, this is the standard chorus run for ETP to ONT, so presumably the other end of that run turns up somewhere useful, can you elaborate?

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#3123417 4-Sep-2023 00:05

The cable looks like too dark a grey to be opticat, I think. Opticat also is usually fairly smoothly round, whereas this grey cable has fairly distinctive creases in the jacket over each of the four pairs. It doesn't seem to leave room for the twin-fibre bundle, for

raytaylor

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#3127292 13-Sep-2023 18:00

This is a photo of the "ETP" area.

There will be a draw wire in the green duct which runs out to the road. The installers will use this to pull a microduct in. Its likely the blue cable.

If you are in a chorus area, there should be an opticat cable going into the house to the network data closet or data panel.
If the data panel is on an external wall directly above the ETP, then they could get away with just putting in a draw wire. If not i would be concerned about there being no opticat. The grey cable looks too dark in color to be opticat. However there looks like several cables so maybe they have run a cat5/cat6 as well as an opticat.

If you are in a UFF / Tuatahi area they usually prefer a white microduct run inside rather than an opticat.

Not sure what they prefer down in the christchurch or whangarei area.

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