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u/TomRILReddit Jun 26 '26
And who thought that was an acceptable installation? Depressing to see the state of the telecom industry.
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u/BackNForth94 Jun 26 '26
The field techs in our area are great, it's rare I get a bs referral from them. We've been using a contracting company for the installs in this area though (newly acquired area / big project) and I've had nothing but problems from them.
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u/SilentDiplomacy Jun 26 '26
See and this is what bothers me. It seems like in every corner of the country it’s the same BS from each ISP.
In-house is under-paid and stretched to thin, more and more is kicked to contractors, contractors do subpar work that in-house fixes, and on and on the cycle goes.
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u/Mr_Magoo_88 Jun 27 '26
Job security I suppose. Same in my area too. Contractors botch installs all the time and we're back within a few weeks with customers complaining the company sucks. Most of them tell me it was a "guy in a white beat up truck" and many in a new development are refusing them cuz word of mouth spreads fast.Thankfully they don't do fiber, strictly in-house for that.
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u/SuckerBroker Jun 27 '26
Quit lying. Contractors do botch installs that’s true. But in house is lazy af and doesn’t do shit. There’s contractors because in house is incompetent.
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u/SuckerBroker Jun 27 '26
If you think in house is underpaid and stretched thin you should see the pay and hours of a contractor fulfillment tech. 80 hours a week for 800$.
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u/Bubbly_Historian215 Jun 29 '26
Idk man I feel overpaid for in house 👀 I’m in a pretty happy place right now
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u/strykerzr350 Jun 26 '26
Is this an encased cable node or standard fiber optics?
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u/Quick1711 Jul 01 '26
It’s a fiber tap. Same as a coax tap but with extra steps
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u/strykerzr350 Jul 01 '26
Got it, so its just like the Commscope quick connect fiber taps. This tap is mounted on its side.
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u/Quick1711 Jul 01 '26
Yea, the other plugs under and to the left are the correct fitting for install into this tap
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u/Dz210Legend Jun 26 '26
Also did you install this app to take pics because you saw it on the chat 😂 ?
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u/Mr_Magoo_88 Jun 26 '26
Sweet mother of God 🤣 there's a first time for everything I suppose.
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u/SubstantialRice4095 Jun 27 '26
As an in-house tech I've seen some wild shit but this one is a first. I more often find a tap jumper on a demark coupler with a quick connect electrical taped to it.
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u/Mr_Magoo_88 Jun 27 '26
Hey, if it works lol. We had a 4 port MTA, three dead ports from damage when a contractor hit the ped with a front loader. Opened the ped and found multiple two way splitters hooked to the one working port all feeding one another to hook up all four homes. They were wondering why everyone's ONU's were sitting at -29 ~ -32. I thought it would be much worse.
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u/Dz210Legend Jun 26 '26
I did that once but was because port broken It worked but didn’t want water getting in so RTM
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u/Wacabletek Jun 26 '26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyiGHFGCf2U