And post the model number of the box it plugs into. extra credit for the url of its specs, like what kind of connectors it has.
On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 9:48 PM, Russell Senior <russ...@personaltelco.net> wrote: > Take a picture of the connector and post it. There are a whole > variety of connectors used. > > > Russell > > On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 5:56 PM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Nov 2017 16:02:53 -0800 (PST) > > Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> dijo: > > > >>On Thu, 9 Nov 2017, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> > >>> ... the skinny white fiber cable just dangles down between the studs > >>> and the end of it plugs into the back of the 'modem.' > > > >>> Unfortunately I am pretty stupid about fiber. It appears that there > >>> are different kinds of keystone jacks for different kinds of fiber, > >>> and I have no idea which kind to get. I also don't know what is > >>> required to connect the end of the cable from the street to the back > >>> of the jack, or what kind of patch cable I need to go from the jack > >>> to the modem. It looks like the end of the cable just plugs into the > >>> back of the modem, so I pulled on it to see if it just comes out, > >>> but it was kind of tight and I didn't want to force it, so I left it > >>> alone. > > > >>Inside the house it should be Ethernet; the optical translator should be > >>on the outside. That's the way it is here with Frontier's > >>installation. The fiber terminates in the outside box and the > >>converter moves electrons across the cat5 to the inside box. > > > > I definitely have fiber dangling down between the studs inside the > > house. It is far too skinny to be ethernet, plus it ends in a plug that > > is just a little thicker than a #2 pencil lead. The installer ran fiber > > from the street to a box that he mounted on the outside of the house > > (about one foot square, way bigger than it needs to be), and from > > there ran skinny fiber cable along the outside wall and then up the wall > > to a point where he could poke a hole through to the attic. He pulled > > the cable through the hole and then he ran the fiber cable halfway > > across the attic to a point where he could drop it down into the wall > > that didn't have sheetrock. That's the point where it plugs into the > > back of the what I think is the optical translator (about the size of > > an old fashioned cigar box). The optical translator has lights labeled > > PWR, BAT, LAN1, LAN2, LAN3, LAN4, POTS1, POTS2, LOS, and PON. The PWR > > LAN1 and PON are lit up. It uses a wall wart, not a battery. From the > > optical translator there is an ethernet patch cord to the D-Link > > DIR-860L that Russell fixed for me so that it would work as a router > > here. I don't know if this is a normal setup or not, but it's what I've > > got. > > > > I really need to speak to a CL installer. My frustration with calling > > technical support was because they have never been in the field, have > > never installed service in someone's house, and have no idea what kind > > of equipment is used. Their skill is solely in scheduling a service > > call. I described my installation to them and they had no idea what I > > was talking about. > > > > In the meantime, in order to continue with sheetrocking I would like to > > thread the cable through an empty hole in one of the ethernet plates, > > to which I can add a keystone jack (plus patch cable) later, once I > > figure out what kind I need. But to do that I need to pull it out of > > the back of the optical translator and then plug t back in, and that is > > scary. > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Carl K _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
