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Taubin

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#216707 9-Jul-2017 14:33
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My wife and I went to an open house today, that had fiber installed. I don't have any experience with fiber directly, but I do know what the ONT looks like. I'm just wondering about the set up in the house, and what the other items are. 

 

I know the ONT is on the right, I'm curious about the small box on the left, attached to the ONT. I'm assuming that is phone?

 

I assume the yellow cable (not the fiber line) is cat5, and the white coming out is cat5 as well. It appears as though they've put the cat5 through the floor then back out of the floor with a minijack next to the phone jack. 

 

The house is not wired for networking other than this one port, fortunately it's easy to get under for running wiring. 

 

 

So my questions are, is this a typical set up? 

 

Is that a phone jack attached on the left?

 

Thirdly and possibly most importantly, how much does it cost to have an ONT moved? This is not in an ideal spot unfortunately, it's liveable (I would run Cat6 from the ONT to a vented closet in one of the spare rooms and put a board there for the switch and router etc...)

 

I guess my final question is to do with cost of having networking run into a 3 bedroom, single level house. I'd rather have it done professionally as it would be a do it once do it right kind of thing. I can upload general plans later with measurements etc... 

 

 

 

Thank you all for the help. cheers. 





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  #1817342 9-Jul-2017 15:43
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My 2C worth. Some similarity to my install

 

Yes the ONT is the box on the right. The whote box slightly to the left is where my existing house phone lines plug into the ONT . ie the old phone network that runs inside the wall to each or the phone jack locations.. Yellow cable coming out of the ONT plugs into your router

 

Box on floor and the white cable; I wonder if thats the old Sky/TV install with an old phone jack.

 

Little box/ether jack ? - are there any other ethernet jacks in the house?

 

?You will have to pay to move the ONT and get a new fibre blown if the distances a longer at new install location.

 

I assume you wont be putting a TV or home entertainment system in front of it...

 

 


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