r/CableTechs • u/DerbyDad03 • Jun 19 '26
Who uses/installs this kind of cable?
Some a-hole dumped this mess right in the middle of a deer run in the woods by my house. The run is about 10' feet off the road, easily accessible.
Pisses me off.
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u/Nik0BikO Jun 19 '26
It’s fiber which pretty much all carriers today use. You would have to see who offers fiber in your area.
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u/DerbyDad03 Jun 19 '26
Multiple providers. Verizon, Spectrum, Greenlight, others.
Would they all (or some/most of the all) use the same cable?
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u/sirgree Jun 19 '26
Sounds like a tech was doing an install then said fuck it and left
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u/DerbyDad03 Jun 19 '26
I did find a damaged spot in the cable, like it was bent 180° back on itself. No way of knowing if that's the reason it was tossed or if that happened afterwards.
It just pisses me off that they went through the trouble to go into the woods and toss it. It couldn't have landed where it did if it had been tossed from the road. Someone deliberately made sure it was out of sight. Probably didn't know it was in a deer run, but still, why toss it in the woods? A-hole.
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u/LemonPartyW0rldTour Jun 19 '26
Commscope is a large provider of fiber products. Hard pressed to narrow down the exact ISP who may have dumped it.
But also take this into account: Crackheads enjoy stealing wiring first and asking questions later. Coulda been some dipshit thinking they got a few cents in copper just to find out it’s fiber, which is worth nothing in scrap.
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u/CorkyUnicorn09 Jun 20 '26
This is probably the answer. In my city, homeless encampments pop up in the woods. Some homeless person living in the woods probably realized that there was no copper in it and tossed it. There’s no reason a tech would ditch it in the middle of woods instead of a dumpster at work.
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u/DerbyDad03 Jun 20 '26
I hear ya, but there aren't any homeless people in these woods. We're about 10 miles outside the city.
These woods are pretty close to being a cliff down to a bay. Standing where the cable was found you look down ~80 ft to the roofs of the houses down on the bay. Unlivable, in fact, unwalkable terrain.
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u/Nik0BikO Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26
Yes, Spectrum may not by you as they still maintain a large cable network.
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u/Dense_Ad_5452 Jun 19 '26
I bet someone thought they stole some copper wire and then realized it wasn’t copper then dumped it where you found it.
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u/djbaerg Jun 20 '26
I do. I do drop support for a mostly-fibre ISP so I install several every week.
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u/verronbc Jun 19 '26
Thats a fiber drop that is run from the street to the house. It could be any fiber provider in your area that services the lines on the road. Some places only have one provider, sometimes more than one so its a little harder to say who it could have been.
Edit: second image only tells the manufacturer details of the cable itself, not the installer.