[ale] From DSL to Fiber

[Ryan Fish]

I doubt he truly has fiber all the way to the house.  More likely there is
fiber to an underground ped and 5-pair copper coming out of an above ground
ped to the house box.  This is how it is done in my neighborhood anyway.

I ran my own Cat5e from the house box to the closet where my router lives.
The tech just connected everything at both ends and all was well.

And, yes, you are stuck at 1.5MB when using IFITL and there is no time frame
for an upgrade (I've asked SEVERAL times).  If it wasn't such a pain in the
butt I'd have switched to cable for 6MB long ago.  I do love the fact there
is no modem to deal with when using IFITL though...

-Ryan


-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of James P.
To: ale at ale.org
Kinney III
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:11 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] From DSL to Fiber

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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