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DJVS
5 years agoNeighbour
New to Fibre Phone/Internet: Installation & Wiring questions
HI. So our Strata Complex is switching over to Telus PureFibre, but we didn't get any explanation on how it "should" be done. I have reviewed what Telus says on there FibreUpgrade page, and tried t...
polecat
5 years agoAll-Star
DJVS With strata units or apartments there is usually a utility room with all power meters in it and a big telephone entrance wire panel where tel wires are seperated and sent to each unit. Thats where the fiber will enter and how they get fiber to the units is their problem existing conduits to each units ? Inside telephone wire 4 wires cannot hook to the ont. Requires cate cable from ont where ever it is located to the modem / router. Older apartment blocks and stratas are a big headache but $ of wiring by owner of structure can fix it. If wired for a cable company tv service it may not happen.
- SilverVee5 years agoNeighbour
Just one caveat and to some extremely important. Good luck using fax over the new fibre network.
No luck using my new multi function printer, went over the setup information many times and no luck.
Ok the old faithful simple multi function unit worked for years, powered it up, no joy, seems that fax machines
will only work on the old copper networks. Will investigate further but hold little hope.