Sonic says fiber will be coming to my neighborhood this October! Of course I'm excited, but now I'm starting to wonder about logistics and practicalities, and what I should be doing to prepare.
As with many houses in the Berkeley flats, my PoE is a hole in the exterior wall that accesses a crawl space under the house, with no nearby electrical outlets and with negligible roof overhang for exterior shelter. After passing through the PoE, my phone cable connects to a splitter/filter in the crawl space, with one branch of the splitter supporting the landline circuit and the other supporting DSL service via a Cat5e cable that runs some distance underneath the house to an interior wall jack adjacent to the DSL modem.
When installation time comes, will the Sonic installer run fiber under the house to the wall jack where the modem currently lives, or will the installation end somewhere near the PoE? If the installation extends beyond the PoE, is anything that I've described here likely to trigger an installation charge?
As with many houses in the Berkeley flats, my PoE is a hole in the exterior wall that accesses a crawl space under the house, with no nearby electrical outlets and with negligible roof overhang for exterior shelter. After passing through the PoE, my phone cable connects to a splitter/filter in the crawl space, with one branch of the splitter supporting the landline circuit and the other supporting DSL service via a Cat5e cable that runs some distance underneath the house to an interior wall jack adjacent to the DSL modem.
When installation time comes, will the Sonic installer run fiber under the house to the wall jack where the modem currently lives, or will the installation end somewhere near the PoE? If the installation extends beyond the PoE, is anything that I've described here likely to trigger an installation charge?