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Fibre drilling and termination box locations
Telus is installing underground fibre in my area, all the homes have underground utilities and all homes face the street head on. The homes all have from left to right (coming from the under ground...
You probably have a copper ethernet line to your home also, along with the phone line, one in the same now I suppose? What side is your homes Electrical Utilities closet on? I assume it's all on the left side? You should be able to have the new fiber line put as close to the ethernet line as possible, I believe they have to terminate it where your electrical/coms/utilities box/closet is. Will it be a unsightly penetrator if it it's right close to the ethernet penetration?
- The telephone line (as you said) is actually just a Cat5 ethernet cable that comes in and they use a twisted pairs off of that to make the phone.
And yes, the Left side of the house has an electric meter, and the phone box.
"Will it be a unsightly penetrator" yeah it would be. The way the home was set up with the windows, utilities boxes, etc (there's even a small path/hole directly behind the telephone box underneath the siding {you'd never know unless the siding was removed}) was meant for those 2 boxes (electric and phone/cable box) to be there, and nothing else. Place a new box would be tight, unsightly, and involve drilling a hole through thick virgin wall that wasn't meant to have utilities pass through it. Hence why I'd want them to reuse the existing box.They will use a box in place of the existing one or if need be a slightly larger on. But all the digging and or conducting will be done by Telus, I would NOT attempt to do any of it. A waste of time , risk and money you don't need to bare. It's on them to get the fiber to and into your house. Their cost, time and risk. I'm sure it will be exactly where your Ethernet is right now.
