When the CenturyLink dude installed my fiber the wall inside the house where it ended up had no sheetrock, so there is no jack - the skinny white fiber cable just dangles down between the studs and the end of it plugs into the back of the 'modem.'
Now the wall is about to have sheetrock. I could drill a little hole in it and feed the fiber cable through it, but that strikes me as really not very professional. The cable from the street should connect to the back of some kind of jack, and then there should be a short piece to connect the jack to the back of the modem thingy, sort of like we use patch cords to connect ethernet wall outlets to whatever device we are using (laptop, etc.). I made the mistake of calling CL to ask if they could supply me with whatever jack they normally use. Half an hour and six conversations with technicians later I gave up. I did, however, discover that there exist fiber connectors in keystone jacks, which would be ideal for my situation. I wired my entire house with Cat6 ethernet cable, so I know all about keystone jacks. In fact, the wall where the fiber terminates now has a panel with 20 keystone jacks connecting to all the ethernet ports throughout the house. That panel could easily have one more keystone jack. Unfortunately I am pretty stupid about fiber. It appears that there are different kinds of keystone jacks for different kinds of fiber, and I have no idea which kind to get. I also don't know what is required to connect the end of the cable from the street to the back of the jack, or what kind of patch cable I need to go from the jack to the modem. It looks like the end of the cable just plugs into the back of the modem, so I pulled on it to see if it just comes out, but it was kind of tight and I didn't want to force it, so I left it alone. Advice and suggestions needed. :) _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
