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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...
There are zero poles in my community. Everything is underground. Shaws CATV cable comes up in a pipe behind the Tel box and enters the wall without a there being any CATV box. If this CATV pipe continues in the dirt, unknown need to dig to check. However the CATV goes to a different hub and is not the same hub where Tel is (I've seen the inside of the big Tel lawn box before when a neighbor car hit it and it was wide open for weeks, it only contains tel wires (Cat5) inside, no Coax)
"big Tel lawn box "
So they put a lawn box in without a conduit to the house, that does seem weird, doesn't it.
Again I'm not sure they bury Telus fiber without a conduit. It would seem just plain wrong in my opinion. But let them do it, it's their expense and risk. they will pull it right to the same location as the existing Cat5
- That's right, right in the ground.
Inside the box is thick black rubber outdoor grade cable heading to each house.
Inside the 1 single cable jacket are 2 sub jackets.
1. One contains plain old regular blue Cat5. And in the big box the cat 5 twisted pairs finger out of the cable and becomes a rat nest of tel wires.
2. The other contains dead Coax (not used, not Shaws, dead ends in the big box, and dead end at the homes)
This cable goes into the dirt and to the homes. However the primary Mother cable comes up into the box via big 4 inch PVC pipe.
It I'll be easy to bring fiber Into the neighborhood, but a mess to take it to the homes.OK, there you go, You have existing conduit in the ground. Its just not the conduit you're used to thinking is conduit, it "Non ridged conduit" perfectly fine for Cat or Fiber. They will pull the fiber using the old Cat to the existing location on the side of your house, most likely not need to make any new holes in your siding. Done, solved. Let them do it. Just ask them to not make a new hole, they might have to enlarge it a bit but it'll be the same hole with the existing box or a slightly larger box.
- Nope. It's not soft conduit.
You can't slide stuff in and out of it. It's just Coax and Cat 5 that have been melted together under 1 rubber skin. There is zero clearance inside the cable.
