Timeline for Running fiber and rj45 through wall plate
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| Aug 21, 2023 at 21:48 | comment | added | Peter Green | Be aware that the telcos tend to use "angle polish" connectors. These can generally be identified by their green colour. Mating an angle polish connector to a flat polished version can cause damage to the mating surfaces. | |
| Aug 21, 2023 at 19:32 | answer | added | MonkeyZeus | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 21, 2023 at 18:01 | comment | added | Criggie | I've moved fibres like this three times, and its really unnerving just how thin it is, and how poorly supported the final strand can be. Plus that you're often in a roof or underfloor working by head-lamp so it's quite the challenge. It all comes down to how competent you are with your hands, and how much slack there is in the fibre run - you can't pull it ! | |
| Aug 21, 2023 at 14:51 | comment | added | Ecnerwal | Pictures might be helpful. In most cases it's difficult to relocate fiber because it's normally poked through holes, THEN connectors are put on, and the connectors won't go through the holes. Applying new connectors is easy if you happen to have a very expensive splicer floating around, or a lot of experience doing epoxy polish connectors and the somewhat less expensive kit that requires - lacking that, hired help is probably advisable. | |
| Aug 21, 2023 at 13:22 | history | edited | Machavity | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 21, 2023 at 7:29 | answer | added | Thomas | timeline score: 11 | |
| Aug 21, 2023 at 3:00 | history | edited | Kaje | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 21, 2023 at 2:53 | history | edited | Rohit Gupta | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 21, 2023 at 2:52 | answer | added | Rohit Gupta | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 21, 2023 at 2:46 | comment | added | KMJ | You need to figure out the type of fiber first. It's probably LC or SC single-mode fiber. Once you know the type, couplers and patch cables are readily available. | |
| Aug 21, 2023 at 2:36 | comment | added | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | There are a bunch of different "standards" for network fiber. I actually learned quite a bit about it several years ago for a project with one of my customers, but even then I never learned how to cut, splice, etc. - I mainly learned (and now forgot) the different types and had a bunch of different patch cables on hand for when I needed them. | |
| Aug 21, 2023 at 2:21 | comment | added | Kaje | @manassehkatz-Moving2Codidact yah I had a feeling the fiber part was going to be the issue. I hadn't even planned on it at first but then remembered that my fiber cable is on the middle of an outside wall running all the way over to the middle of the adjacent wall so if I could just do away with that that'd be great. I guess I could put the modem in the basement lol. Are the cables and connectors not standard? A lot of audio fiber optics came up when I searched for networking ones. Not sure if they are the same or not. | |
| Aug 21, 2023 at 1:58 | comment | added | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | RJ45 is easy - jacks, cable, patch cables, etc. readily available and easy enough to learn how to put it all together. Fiber can be a bit more complicated. What company provides the fiber connection? (Because someone here, but not me, might know that 'xyz uses abc fiber...') | |
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| S Aug 21, 2023 at 1:33 | history | asked | Kaje | CC BY-SA 4.0 |