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Pure Fibre install
Hi, So I am thinking about switching over from Shaw to pure fibre. I live in a 3 floor town home with the office being on the 3rd floor. When they install the fibre modem can this be installed on...
I had a lot of concerns getting PureFibre installed. My concerns were about equipment location, drilling of holes in the wall and aesthetics of what things would look like when they left.
To address this what I did (with some difficulty) was to do the fishing (i.e. laying a feed piece of rope from the outside of the house to the desired installation location) within my walls BEFORE TELUS came. This was I was able to ensure that the fibre was pulled to the location where I wanted the ONT and modem to be located. If you aren't confident doing the fishing hiring an electrician or a communications installer beforehand might be an idea. If you want to try this using your own fishing gear, I would recommend the longer fibreglass fishing sticks (the ones I used were almost a metre long). The coiled fibreglass fishing gear often uncoils in the wall. If you have conduit installed, the coiled gear might work.
With the fishing done beforehand, the installation was easier and it ended up being in the location where I wanted the equipment.
When I talked to the TELUS technician he said that he had only seen three instances where people had done the fishing prior to the technician coming to do the installation. Having the line fished through prior to the technician's arrival did help the process a great deal!
