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Re: PureFibre Install - bringing into house
Spoke to an electrician and he agreed the cat5 cable is probably stapled somewhere along the way. He also asked me if they were inside conduit but I can’t access the box anymore without that special tool now that it’s closed to check. He felt it was best to have TELUS drill a hole to bring the fibre in. Maybe I have to ask another electrician, but it sounds like my options are limited. Polecat, to answer some of your questions: You’re right the routers are not exactly daisy chained. All cat5 jacks meet in the basement panel and run into network switches. There is coax and Ethernet at all locations where I require a TV; however I want to use the Ethernet jacks for my routers. So I’m just left with the wifi option or coax for Optik TV. Not hopeful Wi-Fi will reach them all. When converting a coax for Optik TV is it just a matter of attaching something to the coax outlet? Serviced overhead and cat 5 cables run to the TELUS box outside. Thanks10KViews0likes1CommentPureFibre Install - bringing into house
Hello, I’m trying to switch from Shaw to TELUS and hit a bit of a hurdle during the installation. I have a new house with a panel in the basement that houses all my telecom connections. The house is wired for Ethernet and I currently have a Shaw modem in one of the rooms on the main floor. From the modem I have a cat5 that goes into an eero mesh router which then goes into the Ethernet jack on the wall. From there it daisy chains to other eero mesh routers throughout the house so that they are all hardwired and flood my house with Wi-Fi. I don’t want to lose this setup so am overthinking every step of the install, which is making things worse given my limited knowledge of it. Anyways, my main issue that I have to decide on is how to bring the fibre into the house. TELUS brought the cable to the exterior and the installer explained that I have two options: 1. Hire an electrician to snake the fibre cable into the house through the box. I guess the builder ran some cat5 cables from the panel in my basement to that same exterior box, so an electrician could pull it out with fibre attached to it on the other end? It seems too simple but maybe that’s all there is to it. 2. Run the fibre along the exterior of my house and punch it through a hole to the room where my modem is. He said option 1 is better because it’s cleaner and having to run cable along the exterior isn’t ideal given it’s a new house. He was happy to go with option 2 if I agreed to it though and that seemed a lot easier. I was torn and couldn’t decide on the spot. Do most people just run the wire and punch a hole into their living room? Complicating matters further is none of the TVs are located in the room where my modem is and my understanding is that one of them needs to be connected to the modem. After that, the TVs are spread out too far apart to be connected by wifi so I guess we would somehow have to use the existing coax outlets? Not sure how this would work, and if anyone can explain it I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance11KViews0likes4Comments