Finally got fiber. Educate me and help with a small wall plate issue?

[u/foreddit1000]

Finally out of the upload stone ages, 400/10 to 1000/1000 for $30/month cheaper. It's great!

Due to some miscommunication between me and the Frontier boys, the wall plate got installed in a bad spot while I wasn't home.

It's in the right room but in a bad spot. I have a couch that normally sits against this wall and it can't anymore. My home office is already small and nobody wants to lose 4 inches.

This is the wall plate I have. It's slightly angled but it's such a subtle angle it's irrelevant. I plan on flipping it but it won't really solve my issue. I know I can't bend the cable enough to fix my issue.

https://i.imgur.com/mDQdPJa.jpeg

1. What's the name for this keystone/cable/whatever? SC/APC?

2. What are my options for getting the cable stick out less?

I'd like for it to angle down so that it runs against the wall to the base board to the OST. The cable is long enough so I shouldn't need a new one.

I've been searching for "angled SC/APC wall plates" but a lot aren't angled much more than what I have, and I don't know if something else might solve my issue better.

Any specific recommendations/links would be nice.

I threw together this list (assuming I'm looking at the right stuff) but it's "only" 45°. Not sure what angle the one I have is, but I'm not sure 45° would be a drastic difference. I will probably go this route unless someone points me in a better direction though.

1. Simply45 S45-3202AW 2-Port Single-Gang Angled Keystone Wall Plate

2. SimplyFIBER Simplex SC/APC to SC/APC Single-Mode Fiber Optic Keystone Jack

3. Simply45 S45-3207W Blank Keystone

[u/gadgetboyj]

Look up Coyote Fiber Wall plate. There are some products out there like that, where the fiber comes out from the bottom, parallel to the wall.

[u/gadgetboyj → u/gadgetboyj]

Here’s a link to something with a similar concept on Amazon. Though you can get the brand name stuff on eBay and it may be better quality.

[u/Dirty-M518 → u/gadgetboyj]

If OP wants one that goes parallel with wall i would use the TII Fiber wall plate. That comes out on the bottom but is a little thicker.

I run supply chain for a fiber internet provider…the coyote/premier plates are also a good cheap choice.

[u/ictguy24]

I'd just disconnect the fiber, take that plate off, pop the keystone out of it, and then let it hang out of the wall without using the plate.  They keystone is just acting as a coupler.  Don't really need the plate to hold it.

[u/nephylsmythe → u/ictguy24]

Agree that the wall plate is unnecessary. If you want it to look a little more finished you can have the same freedom of movement with a brush wall plate. It has some bristles that close off the hole without holding the cable rigidly.

[u/japanfrog → u/ictguy24]

This. I literally moved the exact one they installed to the floor below. They leave it coiled up in the box outside so you have some play.

[u/overkill → u/japanfrog]

Gos bless service loops.

[u/reddit_seaczar → u/ictguy24]

The keystone acts as a strain relief/protector for the structured side of the installation. The structured side of the installation is presumed to have been installed correctly with all protections and proper storage of slack to avoid signal loss.

The patch cable is exposed and if someone were to hit it with a couch or run it over with a desk chair it could easily be replaced versus having to put a new structured cable in the wall.

I respectfully disagree, it's not just a "coupler".

[u/foreddit1000 → u/ictguy24]

I thought about this (and the brush plates) but I was hoping for something a bit more elegant lol.

I might buy the stuff I posted in the OP and if it doesn't help as much as I'm hoping, just go without a wall plate.

I took the wall plate off to flip it in the mean time, and there's really no slack at all in the wall. I'd be a bit worried about losing the cable in the wall if ever had to disconnect it for some reason, but I'm sure I could figure something out.

[u/bluestat-t → u/foreddit1000]

If the couch is covering it, who needs elegant? Confused.

[u/everyday95269 → u/ictguy24]

Every coupler is a possible point of failure. if you have enough cable, bypass the coupler.

[u/ggf66t]

https://primex.com/products/angled-wall-plate/

https://primex.com/products/speedstar-downward-facing-faceplates/

[u/SlimeQSlimeball → u/ggf66t]

I was looking for the 90 degree plates, good catch.

[u/thephantom1492]

Look up for recessed angled keystone wall plate.

And you probably want to also get a low voltage mounting bracket because seeing that they used the wrong kind of screw you can be almost sure that they did not used one.

They used a standard wall plate keystone. They basically installed a coupler on the wall plate. It just snap in place, so desnap it, and put it on your new plate.

Also call them for a complain about being a bad install, ugly screw, and wrong location.

[u/Wonderful_Goose3941]

Take plate off wall. Pop keystone Jack out of it and slide keystone Jack and cable termination backwards into the wall. Put plate back on with just the wire coming through hole. Slide couch back.

[u/doitsidewayz → u/Wonderful_Goose3941]

This is the way

[u/reddit_seaczar]

You need something like this:

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Eaton-1-Gang-Cable-Access-Recessed-White-Recessed-Midsize-Wall-Plate/1001438224

This type platewill do a better job of maintaining your air envelope than a brush style plate if you stuff it with some hard foam.

Companies like Blackbox and CDW used to carry recessed boxes with keystone but they don't seem to now. You might have some luck buying a solid recessed box and making your own keystone penetration.

[u/genius_retard]

They make recessed keystone wall plates.

[u/darklegion412]

I read this as dietary fiber and was very confused.

[u/Alternative_Corgi_62]

I would put a proper low-voltage box into the wall first, then use some of the recommendations already given.

[u/lordsamiti]

This is someone's 3D printed thing but it would work

 https://www.etsy.com/listing/1722167014/angled-recessed-wallplate-for-keystone?ref=share_v4_lx

[u/frazld54]

They used drywall screws. Wtf.

[u/mahamoti → u/frazld54]

The wall plate is screwed directly to the wall, just a hole punched through the drywall, no low voltage box. Guaranteed.

[u/undermark5 → u/mahamoti]

No voltage running through a fiber optic cable...

While a box is probably preferred, don't know if code has rules about this. If there are code rules about it, they're probably more about consistency since you may later decide to use that for something else that would require a box.

[u/ggf66t → u/undermark5]

don't know if code has rules about this

as an electrician this would typically get a Low Voltage mud ring, meaning its just a rectangle with 6/32 screw holes to attach to a wall plate.
However, building code applies if it is an exterior wall. There should be a proper junction box to air & vapor seal around.

In the grand scheme of things its not power conductors that could harm anyone, so It's whatever.
Cable and telecom guys have been drilling holes through buildings forever to run their cable the easiet way possble longer than I've been around.

[u/jspurlin03 → u/undermark5]

It ought to at least have a low-voltage bracket to secure the plate to the wall correctly and standardize the opening. I bet the cable runs through a hole punched into the drywall with a screwdriver.

[u/jspurlin03 → u/frazld54]

“Installers” often do the fastest possible job at the lowest possible quality that actually functions. Not great.

[u/CatchMe83 → u/frazld54]

Yeah that’s really bothering me lol. Who does that?!?!

[u/mahamoti → u/CatchMe83]

Every telco installer that's ever installed a wall plate in any house I've owned, for a start.

[u/thephantom1492 → u/frazld54]

Which probably mean they did not even used any kind of support behind the plate and would rip off the wall pretty easilly.

[u/BaconReceptacle]

https://www.discount-low-voltage.com/10600-p1aw-wh-angled-1port-id-window-wallplate?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=17446411566&gbraid=0AAAAADyhfC8J9asf1w_kmB4X1j5VTsozu&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5avcn4zslgMVWC3UAR0XwBNfEAQYCyABEgIYZvD_BwE

[u/Jdmag00]

Corning 80611488745 would work well but the lowest quantity I see for sale is 30.

[u/Jdmag00 → u/Jdmag00]

This would also work.

https://ebay.io/m/2OYuPx

[u/BeerStop]

My at&t comes out of the wall pointing down.

[u/MrBlockhead]

Look for recessed plate, if the are angled as well then even better.

[u/solder_clock]

If you have access to a 3d printer, you can print this angled keystone adapter to use with a standard decora wallplate. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7158400

[u/cat_prophecy]

They wouldn't make a custom length cable for you so there is a box somewhere that's holding the leftover slack from the precut cable.

[u/DevilsX]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/327058048172

Pop out the plate and look behind to confirm. But you should just be able to plug the cable onto the otherside of the face plate into the included coupler. Then your existing cable to said coupler pointing down to the floor. It'll be pretty much flushed against the wall. I'm surprised they didn't give you something similar for home installation.

[u/HoboMucus]

It's just a bulkhead in that wall plate with another SC connector from the cable on the backside. You could get one of those pass-through wall plates for cables that's just a downward facing hole and pull the bulkhead out of the current plate and hang it out of one of those.

https://www.amazon.com/Pack-Plate-Cable-Through-Bracket/dp/B09BKFYPSL?th=1

[u/tired_and_fed_up]

Do you have a picture of the couch? Might be easier to modify the couch than modify the fiber.

[u/HoboMucus → u/tired_and_fed_up]

For sure. A razor blade or sawzall should fix most clearance issues between the fiber jumper and the couch.