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frankw
5 years agoOrganizer
what to expect - Telus switching me from VDSL to fibre
So a Telus rep phoned me and said they were going to discontinue their old-style internet and Optik TV service (which operates on VDSL from copper phone wires) and they want to swap me over to fibre ...
polecat
5 years agoAll-Star
frankw The install is free. Putting the ont and router in a temporary place then later moving it will cost you $. A telus person will not enter a crawl space or attic to run the wires. I would have an electrican install a 1 inch conduit to the closet where you should have available 4 120 volt outlets for equipmet. And have all your lines brought into this closet. One outlet for ont ----- one router-------one for backup power ( phones won't work if you put your landline on the fiber ) I welcomed the fiber phone line crystal not like 10 years of scratchy crap. I have 25/25 with constant 29/29 up and down for 5 years now the 25 is the lowest one on fiber data cap 300 this works well for the 2 of us never go over. Think this over carefully doing things twice will cost a lot more. If you are on optik The PVR will send wifi signel to the other tv s that require there own receiver no wires needed. You need a regular old phone to work when power out cordless ones won't work. Each tv use a hdmi from their own receiver. Assuming a optik and internet package 1 pvr and 2 receivers.
WestCoasterBC
5 years agoCPU Alum
Also keep in mind if replacing a PVR, ALL your recorded shows will be lost and are not transferred to the new PVR. The only thing that gets transferred over is the scheduled times and channels information.