Subj : AT&T Fiber - installation questions?
To   : All
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon Apr 14 2025 07:58:00

I'm looking at AT&T fiber, and I'm curious as to other fiber users what
your experience has been.

How well did they run the fiber into your house?

Is the box they hand off the fiber to interior or exterior? Do you get
to choose? From what I understand, they can either put a powered ONT on
the outside of the house and deliver copper into the house, or bring
fiber in and use an interior ONT, then hand off copper to their modem. I
have a copper terminating block that's near a protected power plug, I
could run the wire from a wall wart to an external ONT easily.

Do they do a pre-install visit/survey to let you know their options?

Did they run cabling inside of interior walls, or just poke through
where they could?

I have a couple of challenges - moving trucks keep knocking down my
neighbor's fiber because they hang so low (the pole is across the
street). I think I have a better chance because my copper coming in is
at a flatter angle, and it's never been taken down.

They would need to come in at the high point of the house and run the
cable down into my office space. The best way to do it would be to run
inside a wall to a wall plate.

I'm wondering how flexible they'd be in running cable inside, or if I
should bring in my cabling guy - and if so, how I would ask him to leave
the cabling for AT&T to take over.


 
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