Take a picture of the connector and post it. There are a whole variety of connectors used.
Russell On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 5:56 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 9 Nov 2017 16:02:53 -0800 (PST) > Rich Shepard <[email protected]> dijo: > >>On Thu, 9 Nov 2017, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> >>> ... the skinny white fiber cable just dangles down between the studs >>> and the end of it plugs into the back of the 'modem.' > >>> 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. > >>Inside the house it should be Ethernet; the optical translator should be >>on the outside. That's the way it is here with Frontier's >>installation. The fiber terminates in the outside box and the >>converter moves electrons across the cat5 to the inside box. > > I definitely have fiber dangling down between the studs inside the > house. It is far too skinny to be ethernet, plus it ends in a plug that > is just a little thicker than a #2 pencil lead. The installer ran fiber > from the street to a box that he mounted on the outside of the house > (about one foot square, way bigger than it needs to be), and from > there ran skinny fiber cable along the outside wall and then up the wall > to a point where he could poke a hole through to the attic. He pulled > the cable through the hole and then he ran the fiber cable halfway > across the attic to a point where he could drop it down into the wall > that didn't have sheetrock. That's the point where it plugs into the > back of the what I think is the optical translator (about the size of > an old fashioned cigar box). The optical translator has lights labeled > PWR, BAT, LAN1, LAN2, LAN3, LAN4, POTS1, POTS2, LOS, and PON. The PWR > LAN1 and PON are lit up. It uses a wall wart, not a battery. From the > optical translator there is an ethernet patch cord to the D-Link > DIR-860L that Russell fixed for me so that it would work as a router > here. I don't know if this is a normal setup or not, but it's what I've > got. > > I really need to speak to a CL installer. My frustration with calling > technical support was because they have never been in the field, have > never installed service in someone's house, and have no idea what kind > of equipment is used. Their skill is solely in scheduling a service > call. I described my installation to them and they had no idea what I > was talking about. > > In the meantime, in order to continue with sheetrocking I would like to > thread the cable through an empty hole in one of the ethernet plates, > to which I can add a keystone jack (plus patch cable) later, once I > figure out what kind I need. But to do that I need to pull it out of > the back of the optical translator and then plug t back in, and that is > scary. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
