[PLUG] Fiber connectors?

[Russell Senior]

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 <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Nov 2017 16:02:53 -0800 (PST)
> Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> 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.
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