[ale] From DSL to Fiber

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 22:04 -0400, runman wrote:
> I am moving and have fiber strung to my new house.
<envy><envy><envy>

>   I am not going to use
> BellSouth as my ISP provider but am either going to stay with Speedfactory
> (instant contract renewal - ick !) or go with someone else (Speakeasy and
> Atlantic Nexus are the front-runners here).  I have been told that BS has
> limited my download speed to 1.5 and that I will need to punch another hole
> in my house and run another pair of wires to a RJ45 jack (getting rid of
> PPPOE is the only bright side to this ordeal).
> 
> Is this correct ?  While not crazy about this I am less crazy about paying
> Speedfactory's service tech to do it for a small fortune.  While I know how
> to put an RJ45 jack on Ethernet cable I am not too sure about fiber.

The fiber will terminated with a converter in a box. It will be copper
inside the house. Run your own wire3 from where you want the jack back
to the box and have the DSL tech connect it to the converter.
> 
> And I am guessing my phones are all ok as they are ?
> 
> As one can tell, I am totally ignorant of fiber and it's ramifications with
> regards to home networks.  However I am certain there are many on this list
> who are networking guru's with regards to fiber to the home.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Greg
> 
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