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Can I Change the Fiber Optic Cable ?
Hi, I've got a detached garage with a conduit to the house. When I had my ONT installed, it was put in the garage although I had said I wanted it inside the house due to possible damage and moistur...
Brando Kronos Someone on here said adding fibre requires it to be tested to make shure it works . Moving the ont will require that the copper house wires will have to be connected inside house i you want fiber phone line There is no charge for the power pack. You need a telus installer sooner than later.
The ONT will be fine in the garage as long as it's not exposed to the elements. I didn't understand your plan about the 10 feet of fiber, but it will only work if you run fiber optic through the conduit. I'm guessing your conduit is longer than 10 feet... You can't splice glass with copper that's the job of the transceiver (ONT). Also, I suggest you give Telus a call about the battery backup. The technician should have installed it if you asked, since you won't have landline during an outage. I'm not sure if Telus bills for the battery backup, but it's better than no landline when the power goes out.
Sorry, I meant 150'... There was moisture forming on the ONT so I was concerned. Also, I figured it was safer in my crawlspace where I have accesss to my CAT 5e's that are run through the house.
Oh, and I was going to have a patch cable that had the SC connectors already attached so no need to splice. The fiber optic cable coming into the garage already had a SC connector and coupler so I thought it'd be as easy as disconnecting the current one, attaching it to the 150' patch cable and then connecting it to the ONT inside the house.
- You can get a $30 optical power meter from Amazon, otherwise I suggest before running your pre-terminated 150 feet of fiber just connect one end of it to the coupler and the other to the ONT in the garage and see if you get a Fail red light or everything goes green after a few minutes.
If you don't get a Fail light then carefully (remember it's glass) run the fiber to your crawlspace, connect your ONT there, and check for Fail light again. Then you need to either move the modem to the crawlspace or intercept the Cat5 home run going to your modem from the garage and plug it in to the ONT.
Consider everything currently connected to the modem (wired and wireless) before moving the modem, and make a plan to restore all connections and wifi coverage if you do move it.
Also, I hope your crawlspace is at least 4 feet high and clean. Otherwise technicians will refuse to go in there for any troubleshooting especially since it's against their rules like mentioned by polecat.
