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Luke_Porter
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What kind of wire does AT&T Fiber come into the house on?
Yep, actually drove to all of these places---in the last eight years. Missed Rhode Island and New Jersey.


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lynndiwagon
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You guys are lucky with the fiber direct to the house. Awesome speeds.
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Bill.Satellite wrote:
Luke Porter wrote:
What kind of wire does AT&T Fiber come into the house on?


There is NO fiber coming into my RV! RV forum, right?

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CincyGus
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I have Cincinnati Bell Fiber Optics and it comes to my garage where it plugs into a contraption that is plugged into a power outlet and then feeds cat 6 to my router.

I've been very happy with it for 4 years I've had it. Speed is more consistent than cable (Spectrum in my area) and I have only had outages when I've lost power.
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Fred_n_Jo
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My fiber line comes into the house to the router. The main TV with DVR is connected by Cat5, the other tvs, tablet, e-book, cellphone, printer, and home security system is connected by WiFi. My computer is connected by Ethernet cable and I have 500 Mb download speeds which is 50 times the DSL speed I used to have.
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lynndiwagon
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We're all here to learn new things from our RV friends. Back in the day AT&T supplied DSL internet from the central office over twisted pair wire. The availability was pretty much limited by how far you were from the CO. I was on the hairy edge, distance wise, so it was a challenge. Fast forward....AT&T ran Fiber Optic cable to the little hut where all of our neighborhoods in this area were terminated. It was much closer so the speed was better, but they still used the existing twisted pair wire to deliver the final product to our houses....which limits speed vs having fiber direct to each house.
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Bill_Satellite
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Luke Porter wrote:
What kind of wire does AT&T Fiber come into the house on?


There is NO fiber coming into my RV! RV forum, right?
What I post is my 2 cents and nothing more. Please don't read anything into my post that's not there. If you disagree, that's OK.
Can't we all just get along?

cathanas
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In Austin, AT&T fiber is fiber to the house. It comes with both a fiber-to-gigabit transceiver (located near power like in the garage) and then a wireless router located where ever your other equipment is. Very fast and reliable.

Luke_Porter
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OP here. All of my current utilities are underground and enter the house in concrete columns. After watching the YouTube guess I'll stick with cable.
Yep, actually drove to all of these places---in the last eight years. Missed Rhode Island and New Jersey.


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ItsyRV
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Depends on where you live. "Fiber" doesn't always mean fiber optic to your device or property. Often the term "fiber" means from the HeadEnd to the Node servicing your street of block. From the Node to your home may be CAT or Coax wiring. In a new neighborhood or one where government or customers are wiling to pay, the fiber may be brought to your property. You may also find fiber to your NID and they use that as a distribution point for your neighbors via wires.
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owenssailor
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On our area in Ontario many of the internet ISP's have fibre right into the house.
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theoldwizard1
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Having "fiber" in your house is not very useful as you likely will not own anything you can plug it into ! I hope that the installation would include a router/switch with at least 8 Gigabit Ethernet (1000Base-T, backward compatible with 100Base-T) ports. Both use the same RJ45 plugs.

To achieve 1000Base-T throughput, you should purchase good quality, pre-made, CAT-5e or CAT-6 cables.

gkainz wrote:
last comment - here's a better video youtube AT&T into the house

Yes, much better ! The ONT converts fiber to copper. You supply you own switch/router.

gkainz
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I would be surprised if they actually did a fiber drop into each house. I've pinged a few of my co-workers who may know exactly where they drop from fiber to cable in each circuit. Will update if/when I hear back.

Edit - talked to some co-workers and they said that they usually DO run a fiber drop to the house. At the DMARC box (outside the house), it converts to CAT-5, CAT-6 (or coax sometimes) and then that medium continues inside the house. You can open the DMARC box and verify what you have.

However, I just found this Youtube AT&T gigabit installation that shows fiber continuing into the house ... so I guess I'll just shut up now! ๐Ÿ˜„


last comment - here's a better video youtube AT&T into the house
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janstey58
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Telecom Fiber is made of glass and is not a "wire."
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