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FibreOptic Service
Fibreoptic service is available in my neighbourhood. I have been trying to get a straight answer about the conversion of the fibre optic signals (light) to the electronic signals which are required ...
The ONT has an RJ45 out port. This will connect to your house's main copper wire telephone box, which is how the old copper phone jacks throughout your house gets connected. You won't need to rewire all the phone jacks in your house.
There's a labelled photo in another thread that explains the wiring:
"Phone line exiting house" is the cable that goes (back) to the main phone box.
The only wiring involved will be:
- bringing the optical cable into the house and connecting it to the ONT
- connecting the ONT to your main phone box, via copper wire
But where is the light signal used by fibre optics converted to the electronic signals that can be used by our hardwired devices?? We are currently using a 3200 modem with the wifi turned off and are all cable connected... But what happens if we convert to PureFibre??? Interestingly the Telus agent who called indicated that the copper connection which currently connects the Telus cable to our home could, at some time be removed, leaving either Purefibre or wifi as the only connection between the system and our home...
Nighthawk
Community Power User
Community Power UserI was on copper and have a T3200. All that happened for me is they installed an ONT (fibre to ethernet) and connected the T3200 to it. The T3200 basically acts as a router and my home network is exactly the same as before. The only difference is the signal is coming from the ONT rather than the phone lines. The only one change was for my landline which is now connected through the ONT. PureFibre is the only connection to my place now.
