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Sciguy05
6 years agoNeighbour
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...
- 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!
Sciguy05
6 years agoNeighbour
No as there is no power nearby
NFtoBC
Community Power User
6 years agoDiscussed 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!