Fiber Optic service

brad225

brad225

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Fiber is becoming quite common for internet access.

For old Verizon now Frontier customers here in Florida the fiber ends in the ONT on the outside of your home. From there coaxial cable is run into the house directly to a location where needed or to the Router.

At the Router it's convert to ethernet signal then via CAT cable or wireless to chosen locations.

My question is whether any of you have fiber connected to your router? If you have eliminated coaxial was it a worthwhile improvement in the signal?

The other possibility is to run ethernet cable into the house to chosen locations though I don't know if that is offered as a possibility.

Thanks
 
How are they powering the ONT on the exterior of the house? Do they convert the coax to cat with a separate box before the router or does your router have the coax port on it? Usually the fiber is brought into the home and then extended to the location you want with something like the OFS Invisilight product. What speeds are you provisioned for? Tapping onto existing coax to get into the house is the cheap and easy way to do it.
 
No power connects directly to the ONT or the Interface box connected to it. There is a coax splitter at the ONT. A separate coax cable runs to the router, each TV and my music room. Last month the ONT was replaced and the test time was just under 100Mbp download.

The main TV STB and desk top computer receive an ethernet cable from the router.

My music room has a separate AudioTec control box to convert the coax signal to ethernet via Cat 7. From there to a network switch that My NAS and laptop are connected.

My curiosity was whether having fiber directly to my listening room would be noticeable? There is currently only about a 20' run of coax from the ONT to my room.
 
I was not sure if the changing to copper coax and then to the ethernet iCable would create an issue that could be improved.

Once I started the thread I was concerned it might start another cable argument. That clearly was not the intention. Just curiosity.

Thanks for the opinion.
 
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