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Splice box underground2/18/2024 ![]() The only way to guarantee a 320 at installation is to have 2 Gbps or 5 Gbps service. He will use a fiber "cable" from the wall jack to your ONT or the SFP plugged into the back of the BGW320 (depending on which you get). The installer will terminate the fiber in your home (either the drop or the "different" fiber) in a wall jack. AT&T may run fiber to a slack ONT and do a connection at your exterior with a different fiber into your home. If you get an ONT, it will be inside your home. There may or may not be a conductive wire in the drop to allow a location tone for 811, but that doesn't have to be grounded as it won't be connected to anything. ![]() A 135 degree bend is likely not much of a problem. Those 90 degrees would have to have a pretty substantial turn radius elbows need not apply, and you don't want more than two of these. The fiber would fit in 1", but larger is recommended, because fiber is more liable to be damaged if you have to pull "too hard", etc. Is BGW320 enough of an upgrade over bgw210 that I might not need to bother using my 3rd party netgear r7000p access point to cover my whole house? Is there any reason i wouldn't want to upgrade to 320?.Will the fiber line still need to exit conduit to use the splice box or the NID/ONT? or would it be completely encased in conduit in a straight line from utility pole to house?.Can I run fiber through my existing 1" conduit?.Are there any other limitations I should worry about?.for the new section of conduit running around the side of house, my plan is to just leave it unattached to house and unglued when they arrive to install the fiber line and ask them to leave a few extra feet of slack and then I could just attach it to house after they leave and I know its already in conduit and working(thats what I did last time). I don't have any pull lines in the existing conduit, but its a pretty straight shot so it shouldn't be hard to push a wire through, or I figure they could just attached the fiber to the existing copper line after they cut it and use that to pull it through. Can I assume the same size 1" conduit with sweep 90's and 45's I used for existing setup would work here as well? What are the limitations on the fiber? Is it more difficult to fish through conduit than the copper line, because that fit with no problem. I figure it would be a good idea to add some conduit to encase the new fiber line between ONT/or just that stretch if there is no ONT) and gateway. I've had the occasional problem with squirrels or rats chewing the cat5 wire between NID and gateway.Is it safe to assume option #2 is the preferred setup? and that the only way to guarantee getting that setup is to order the 2000 or 5000 mbps service (even if I downgrade to 300 or 500 or 1000mbps the next month it should all still work correct?).#1 is the older/slower method which would replace my existing NID(box#2) with an external ONT that would then run a cat 6 to an ethernet/ONT jack the gateway either existing bgw210 or bgw 320 or option #2 where the fiber would run all the way to bgw320 with a fiber jack connected to sfp? I assume sometimes they might even try to use the existing cat5e cable from nid to gateway, but with all 4 pairs attached, but my existing cable would need to be replaced anyways because I've had a million problems over the years and they've swapped from bad pairs to good pairs, so there definitely aren't 4 good pairs in that wire. After reading through the forums, my understanding is there are 2 ways at&t installs fiber.I never understood why they didn't just ground it directly to the exposed grounding pole directly beneath the splice box. Would the new system require grounds anywhere? There's also a ground strap from the splice box(box#1) on garage to the pipe of the electric meter, but given there is paint on the pipe between wire strap and wire, I doubt it has ever made made much of a connection. (for years techs kept trying to remove this non-standard ground but every time they did the signal had issues and they ended up reinstalling it. My existing NID(box #2) also uses a non-standard grounding wire that connects to copper plumbing of hose connection.It then comes above ground and there is a NID box on side of house(box #2), where a cat 5e line runs around the side my house to inside where it then attaches to my BGW 210-700 gateway (using 2 of the 4 pairs with an rj-11/14 plug). ![]() It then runs into a pvc conduit I installed that goes underground. It drops from an aerial pole to my detached garage where there is an old network splice box next to the electric meter (box#1). My existing copper line runs in a slightly non-standard way.So after more than 8 years of promising fiber At&t finally gone around to running the new lines.
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