Subj : Re: Vitamins
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : Mark Hofmann
Date : Mon Sep 27 2021 08:38:09

KW> AT&T Fiber had gig options a year or so ago, but now I see 300 mbit
KW> options. I hope I didn't miss a sweet spot there.
KW> 
KW> My concerns were that I wasn't sure where they'd place their premise
KW> equipment, and my next door neighbor had a fiber outage (fiber laying on
KW> the road where a branch knocked it over) and it took them 4 days to fix
KW> it.
KW> I wish I could get local channels over the air; I could easily dump cable
KW> in that case.

When they ran the fiber to my house, they left a nice service loop in the box outside on the side of my house.  I opened it up so that I could re-run everything cleaner and put the fiber in a better conduit.  It goes from underground fiber cable to a fused single strand of single mode fiber.  

I ran the single mode fiber from there to a location near my network room in the basement where the ONT is mounted on the wall.  The handoff from that is copper, which goes to my firewall.  I would imagine at some time they might have an ONT that allow a fiber handoff.

You used to be able to use Locast for local channels in many areas (free streaming service).  That was until the local networks sued them and won, so the service was shutdown.  I didn't need reason to hate the local media outlets more, so even though I feel for Locast, it will be fun watching the local channels/news die off.  The new generation could care less about them.

- Mark

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