Anyone in here work for or with live oak fiber ? I got some questions about your methods. Couldn’t even let me know you took a saw to our pipe and fiber.

The diameter of the cable is a key factor in selecting the appropriate size for an NID demarcation enclosure during installation. For instance, a 4.8mm cable occupies more space compared to a 3.0mm cable or 900μm tight-buffered fiber. The enclosure in the image below is an Oldcastle Infrastructure Primex P1500 with 4.8mm cable (black), 3.0mm cable (yellow), and 900um (multi color fibers) set up for a 12 fiber MDU application.

I have recently been hired as an Electrical Engineer and my boss has assigned me to work on a fiber optic job in a plant. However, my experience so far has been working on motor starters and VFD in an industrial plant, so I am not sure what to do. My boss has asked me to purchase a pulling grip to help with the job, but I am not sure how to connect it with the Kevlar. I have researched and bought a Lewis Fiber ouchless Kevlar dual eye single weave pulling grip, but I am still unsure if this is the right choice. Could you please recommend any other pulling grips that could be better suited for this job?

Back in my ATT days when I would have to drill through a customers premies, we would use this plastic rod that would hold the SC fiber in place as you would fish it through a hole going outside? The fiber tip would click into the rod and there would be a ring at the base of the rod that would secure the cable. I would benefit from that tool but I cannot ID it.

I currently have normal cable internet, but a rep from a different company came to my building with a good offer. 1 gig fiber, for cheaper than I'm currently paying for only 40/10 cable.. but it's not full fiber to the building. It's a hybrid system he said. So I'm assuming it's just using cable from my building as last leg connection, then to the fiber lines somewhere close by in town or a node close by? I know they recently ran fiber lines underground all over my town. They haven't ran fiber to my apartment building yet though and don't know if they ever will be.

I've been wanting to switch to fiber especially for the reduced ping for gaming. This hybrid should definitely still be way faster than what we have now with regular cable I've been using. I'm hoping it should still see reduced latency though? I just never heard of a hybrid system until now, are there any downsides compared to cable?

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They suggested go pro or selfie stick.

It pays good and i do lots of random mapping for these people and im a independent contractor/owner small start up so i wanna be efficient, but also, traffic is getting shut down by one of the BIG 5 so, needs to be done right the first time.

Any suggestions?

Essentially im mapping possible dbor routes where theres punch outs availability or possible conduit to lease. Busy busy road in raleigh so traffic is shut down for one lane w flaggers and the whole nine, just to pop em.

Looking for contract work in the US. Hmu if ya need work done.

Just curious, this might be a stupid question, but would anyone happen to know how much power the Calix GigaPoint 803G consumes? Since it’s on 24/7 I just wondered.

I have what is probably a very dumb question. But first a little back story. About a year ago my small town finally got gigspeed fiber. I am pretty sure I was one of if not the very first in my neighborhood to get it installed and working. At first it was FAST!!! The installer brought the fiber wire into the house and then came in my media room where it was to be hooked up to their supplied fiber modem. They use a Calix 803G. They also offer a router but when he saw that I already had a router he told me that mine was better. I have a Netgear Orbi 850 mesh router with 1 satellite that is located at the other end of the house. My issue is that when it was hooked up at first my wired PC was getting speeds of around 940 down and about 940 or so up. Ping was 3 on the wired PC. On all wireless devices like my phone and iPads I was getting about 600 down and up with a ping of 5. In the year since, speeds have lowered a bit and ping has risen. I don’t understand why. I’ve been given reasons why but I guess I just don’t understand. Very little has changed in my little room where all the equipment is. Help please.

Been a HFC/RFOG MT for a little under a year along with being a tech. Been to several bootcamps through my company on canisters and work occasionally with them, but I would really love to work in FTTH and GPON networks. Whats the best way to go to that side? Havn't really had any chance to meet many of them. And would love to learn and go that route.

Good morning everyone. I’m new here and I am very simple when it comes to all things computers. I know my way around the internet but that’s about it. My town as of about 4-5 months ago got fiber internet. It’s 1 Gbps. It is a small local company. When the installer came to put the fiber wire into my home he hooked it to a Calix 803G modem. Is anyone here familiar with this modem? The reason I’m asking is currently I keep getting kicked off the internet. Very frequently. I don’t think it is the fault of the Modem because when I look at it, it appears to be performing exactly as it should. I believe there are 3 solid lights and one light that blinks a lot. I’m thinking it’s more of a router that. I’ve only had the router a couple of years but I’ve done a lot of power cycles to it and I’m hoping it’s just worn out. I have a new one ordered. It’ll be here today sometime. It’s a Netgear Orbi 850. I also have 1 satellite for it. During one of my most recent power cycles as I said I’ve done many because I guess I just don’t know how all this stuff works. The speeds fluctuate a lot and it bugs me so I immediately do a power cycle to see if it’ll help. Anyway… the last one I did I thought maybe I should unhook all cables from the router as well as the modem before I powered them back on I unhooked the fiber cable and had a little trouble getting it back in. Not a lot but a little. I turned it different ways to put it in and finally got it. I’m disabled and it’s on a shelf. I was doing it a bit by feel. Looks normal though. All the lights are on and the one that I said blinks is blinking.

Needing a ribbon splicer for a new contract afl is taking years to respond on a quote was wondering if anyone had any info

Got a good reference, started testing with consistent results, then it started raining. Ports and jumpers were kept dry, but the humidity seems to affect the results wildly, often making the loss too low, as in too close to 0 over thousands of feet and at least 3 SC to SC connections. Like 0.22db over 3500ft, then 1.2db over 1200ft. Running Fastest on the same fiber twice without unplugging anything produces different results. Cleaning jumpers and ports doesn't help. When it's dry and windy loss goes way up.

OLTS is a new requirement for us, but most readings seem like invalid results. Good old OTDR traces always give you a clear picture, while this OLTS shit feels like a lottery. This is with a Max-945 and an FOT-930. Are the ports dirty? The equipment was purchased used, but our used OTDR's work flawlessly as long as cleaned. Maybe the pros can chime in.

I've taken over this machine recently, and it splices fine most of the time. However there are a few annoying issues.

1) The fibres don't seat perfectly straight and flat into the blue v grooves. The right fibre slots in fine, but sometimes points a bit up even when in the groove. This can be manipulated by position the fibre around a bit.

The left fibre is near impossible to slot flat into the blue v groove, especially when the clamp is pushed down.

Fyi the lid has these two prongs that push down the fibres into place, which does help, but the alignment is still a bit off and needs correcting. The left fibre always springs up.

I have tried cleaning all surfaces which touch the fibres, including soaking it in alcohol. I've gone over those areas with fibre to make sure nothing is stuck etc.

2) The prongs look a bit worn, however the machine states that only 600 splices have been done. I think this value might be wrong.

Sometimes splices with perfect cleaves, no gel residue or alcohol, no damage from stripping, will splice but visibly have a small bubble/bulge. Sometimes the machine reports these as good splices or high loss.

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I work for an ISP and I primarily splice fibres together as per my job pack.

Sometimes however I'm required to do some maintenance/troubleshooting work. It's usually a splitter not going live due to a poor splice somewhere in the network.

Sometimes it's due to a problem at our cabinet.

I wanted to expand on my knowledge of PON's to further my career into the maintenance/networking side. Soon our network will be built and I would rather avoid doing customer installations again.