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Sciguy05
Neighbour
6 years ago
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Running fibre line and home planning

Hi I am remodeling my home and have the drywall riped off. My idea is to have a low voltage panel and a network switch in there. From there I will have about 15 cat6 runs to various parts of the...
  • NFtoBC's avatar
    NFtoBC
    6 years ago

    Discussed this with my Telus buddy. His suggestion is to install a conduit from the demarcation point to the cabinet, for 2 reasons:

    Telus will pull the needed Fibre through the conduit at time of install, so long as a pull string is present in the conduit

    Mice seem to love the fibre cover, and the conduit will protect the fibre from rodents

     

    The conduit will allow additional cables to be pulled, or a replacement pulled. I sure wish conduit had been laid to the coax and phone line locations in my house!