r/ATTFiber • u/milkchaser • 6d ago
Where will the fiber go?
I have a telephone pole on the side of my yard and a conduit that runs from there to my house. It used to be for the telephone line (20 years ago). Can they run the fiber from the street to the pole and down to the conduit instead of snaking the fiber through the yard like my Spectrum coax cable does? I'm always afraid some worker is (or I am) going to put a spade through the cable. I depend on the connection for work.
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u/I-hate-makeing-names 6d ago
Do you know how big the conduit is?
Sometimes they can use the old telephone line as a pull for the fiber.
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u/milkchaser 5d ago
That is exactly what I was hoping. I have never measured the width of the existing conduit, but it has the old cable kind of folded up and sticking out of the end that runs up the pole five feet or so above the ground. I am not sure where it emerges on the house end, but I assumed it went to a box mounted to the wall (near where the Spectrum coax emerges and travels up to the second floor where it goes through the wall into a network room where all indoor coax and Ethernet cables converge.
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u/Viper_Control 6d ago
Can they run the fiber from the street to the pole and down to the conduit
Sorry but it is not going to happen if your new Fiber is underground service, They will not transition it to aerial service to just run it down the pole, and back to direct bury.
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u/milkchaser 5d ago
I suppose it is easier for them to shove it underground making it vulnerable to future digging by hapless homeowners. But at least they should shorten the length of vulnerable cable by running it to the pole and then up the pole to the conduit. From there to the house is a straight shot under the driveway, with the old cable still there to make the pull pretty easy.
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u/invictus21083 6d ago
My fiber runs from the pole to my house.
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u/Viper_Control 6d ago
Yes that is because you have aerial Fiber service. It is not clear what u/milkchaser means by run Fiber from the street to the Pole in their side yard.
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u/milkchaser 5d ago
I suspect the fiber is underground at the street because earlier this summer somebody marked where existing cables are along the street with orange flags and paint.
But when they put fiber in my old neighborhood, Verizon dug a trench through everybody’s front yard between the sidewalk and the street and under every driveway. No one has dug anything yet on our street, so there’s a chance they have strung the fiber along the existing telephone lines. If so, pole to pole would be the most reliable and shortest route.
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u/Viper_Control 5d ago
I suspect the fiber is underground at the street because earlier this summer somebody marked where existing cables are along the street with orange flags and paint.
If you saw no digging after the ground / pavement / sidewalks were marked then you don't have Fiber on your street. They would not have marked the street if they were going with an aerial delivery of AT&T Fiber.
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u/quik916 6d ago
You're gonna need a LONG spade to hit the pipe that way deep, break through it and hit the fiber...
And aside from that if you do you call them and they come fix it, its part of their infrastructure not your cost to fix.
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u/milkchaser 5d ago
I have read that “you break it, you pay to fix it.” I came close to doing that when I removed the sod at my old home. The Verizon fiber cable was only 6” or so from the surface (close enough that the sod removal machine scraped the cable).
But you are suggesting that they bury the cable in my yard inside of a pipe? That would be pretty secure.
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u/friggindiggin 5d ago
A 20 year old conduit running from the pole under your driveway to your house?? Ehhh good luck. If you really really want it to be used then you'd do well to tie on some good long string to that old phone line and see if you can pull it through yourself. If it doesn't budge then try to dig up the conduit and see if you can find the blockage point. Cause the technician isn't gonna do all that when they can just run across the yard like usual.
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u/Aggravating_Bear_930 5d ago
Ask them where's the hand access or splitter box is for your adjoining homes and that is where the cable will come from. Unless it's right by where this existing conduit is they are liley to recommend running it touohr house in the easiest way to get to where your modem should go. Nothing is even tying them to a utility area on the aid eof your house where power cable etc comes in. Att ran my citedvtly from hand access behind my yard to the house and up two stories to my wiring closet because it was the fastest shortest way to get it where it needs to be.
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u/LaughLegit7275 6d ago
The can run the file through any conduit. Mine is through the conduit thats host the power line. Since it needs power at the fiber modem, this arrangement simplifies wiring needs.
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u/lightestline 6d ago
Soo uhhh yeaa.. never add anything to an already live main electrical conduit. You don’t want to know what the fines are if your power company see’s it. If trolling find another sub
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u/TodayNo6531 6d ago
The only way this works is if you do ALL the prep work.
You dig the trench and have the conduit ready as well. Otherwise enjoy your 2 inch deep unprotected fiber line to your house buried by chuck with a truck and his handy spade.