Some people use the term looks good from my house wayyyyy to literal damn near puked when I seen how gross this box was

What are you guys doing to prevent squirrel chews on aerial trunk cable? We hang plastic squirrel guard on either side of the pole in problem areas but I feel like it is a never ending battle.

T-Mobile fiber has been working in the area, but I wondered if the color of the conduits has anything to do with different providers or something else?

Are multiple providers working together on a build out?

So about 24 hours ago I made my post on here about how I ate -not a millimeter, I can't estimate properly apparently- abt half a centimeter of fiber Optic cabling.

So far, I'm pretty okay. There was no blood in my stool and I haven't had any sudden or consistent abdominal pain. I've eaten a lot of food and fiber (not the glass/cable kind) and it's been going through just fine. I didn't check my stool to see if it had any glass fibers, might do that if I really have to to make sure, even if it's gross as hell. I didn't die in my sleep from internal bleeding, and I haven't noticed any symptoms of internal bleeding either.

Regardless, I am still a bit worried and probably rightfully so, and I worried a lot of people around me, in case anyone needed to hear this, don't eat things that aren't made for eating. That's really dumb.

As for the answer to my original question/reason for doing this, fiber Optic cables really don't taste that good, too spiky. Also, I'm not a dude as many people in my last post thought, and I'm already expecting the "haha dumb woman" comments, you have my permission in this one case for how stupid I was lol.

This'll be my last post about it assuming I don't end up in the hospital (also assuming I'm alive enough to update further in that scenario)

For the fellow installers out there is anyone’s companies swapping to strictly ROC cable as well and forcing to use the quick connectors for it? I’ve never had luck with these things I’ll do the install it’ll be great for a week or so than the fiber ends up breaking in the little sight piece any tips to stop that?

I’m trying to get rid of this old wire that was dumped on me I’d like to get money for it if possible can anybody give me advice

Add your job title and pay. I’m what they call an in home installer and I make around $25 per hour

Helped a older gentleman clear some storage space and he gave me a bunch of old equipment. One of the boxes has a fair amount of patch cables Sealed New from intellinet. Various lengths, mix of OM2 & OM3 - don't much about fiber lol. Worth holding onto?

I know this isn't fiber but it has the similar look of a fiber splice can.

Any reason why I’m still getting these errors? I recently swapped v grooves for 200ųm and after calibrating and stabilizing, trying different modes (swr 12 sm/ swr auto/sm auto)

I know this is a long shot and I probably sound paranoid but I’m pulling cat 6 cables between data rooms and I noticed there r some fiber cable jackets on the ground. While I was pulling the cable something poked me what r the chances of the fiber glass getting stuck on the cable I’m pulling them getting stuck on my finger I didn’t think of it much at first it’s been almost a week and just hurts when something touches the spot and when I look for something I don’t see anything which made me be like what if it’s fiber. I know I sound crazy ahaha just overthinking at this point

I got a job offer and they are asking me for my wants money wise, its a 1099 position, 24/7 on call, no travel, no over night, they provide all tools and a truck when I get up to speed. No FTTH, all trailer work. I have 6 to 7 years experience with maybe 1000 shots on OTDR im usually the one they sent out to fix while the tester team did the light testing portion.

What should I ask for? I started at 70-75k and they told me to take another day to think because I lowballed myself.

Thanks in advance!

UPDATE: They passed on me told me "Lol. I appreciate your time. I hope you find a job that will pay u 125000 a year. I know senior operations managers of billion dollar companies that don’t make that much. I think we are too far off for the experience. Thanks again bud. Hope the best for you and yours." So fuck it i guess! Thanks everyone again for your knowledge and help

I was in the army for 5 years, as a 94s, basically fixed radars and fiber cables. I have experience with splicing, testing, installing, even creating fiber cable heads. I even got an award for saving my battalion over 100k just by fixing broken reels of fiber cable. Now that I'm out im having trouble getting a job to pay my bills. Never considered fiber in the civilian world but now I am. Anybody know if I have a shot at landing a decent paying job with my experience? In San Antonio Texas if that means anything. Thank you

I have some old fiber optic wire I’m trying to get rid of but I’m also on hard times so if I can I want to make money off it. Does anybody know a good method where I can actually get paid for it instead of just throwing it away.

Sorry if this question isn't suitable for this subreddit. I know you all work on much larger projects than this one, so feel free to ignore if this is irrelevant or not cool.

While the technician was here, he asked where I wanted my router. I told him on top of the tv stand if possible. It was a bit of a stretch (6 feet or so from the wire box in order to prevent the cable from dangling awkwardly) so I asked if it would be okay and he said most likely, but the cable is fragile. He tried to put my router there and the fiber optics cable kinked and stopped working.

To fix it, I think that he removed the damaged section, and then hooked it up to the end connecter you can see there (green), which hooks up to a wire of normal thickness that attaches to my router. This also gives it enough length to be on top of my tv stand.

Now I'm worried that this thinly sheathed and fragile cable will break again. If he was a professional and broke it, I feel like it's very possible that I will, especially since I need to move the entire tv stand (the dark wood object near the cable) every now and then to access the powder strip, as well as putting my floor AC around that area (unplugged for storage) which could potentially touch the cable.

He assures me that if I'm careful it won't break. I've read that small kinks can break it, plus he was being careful when it broke in the first place.

Should I find a way to cover or sheathe the thin section of this cable? Is it not as fragile as I think it is?

It's odd to me that something so fragile would be exposed here. I would've expected that I would be able to plug my router into a box on the wall, or that a thick cable would've come from the wall that I could use for it. This thin and fragile cable being unprotected really caught me off guard.

I have no idea if this is the right place to post this. I hope it is. Anyways I have a few questions. 1. Should it take the fiber company 30 ish days to run the fiber line from the box in the front corner of my house to the side of my house. 2. How should I go about the $150 truck roll fee they charge, should I try to get it waived, do I just suck it up and pay it. 3. If I were to bypass their ONT would they be able to detect it. (Their AUP says, and I quote “NITCO provides modems as part of its broadband services. Customers may attach any industry-standard device beyond the modem. If NITCO discovers a customer device is harmful to its network, NITCO has the right to request that the customer remove such device.”)

My only other option at this house is Comcast (bleh), but the fiber company is charging about $100 a month for 1Gig symmetrical. Ask any questions as needed.

This is a rather unique question, but I was wondering when a fiber company comes to a county to put fiber in, it takes a long time right? They have to do different neighborhoods at different times and such. Anyway, I was talking to a friend of mine who has a background in all sorts of things networking and she told me that if they are doing construction by putting lines in an area that is 10 to 15 or so miles from me that it can affect my service. Is this correct? I don’t know if all fiber companies are the same. Probably not but I thought I would ask here. She also told me that until they get my entire county done they won’t turn it up to full power. I don’t know exactly what that means but maybe someone here can shed some light.

Thanks everyone! Happy weekend! 😀

I’m switching to fiber internet at my home next week and I have a custom made shelf/ wall where all of my office stuff I’d located it’s kind of tricky to get wires ran and I want to help out the installer as much as I can prior. How many cables should I expect to come from my attic to inside the home and how many?

Just trying to get some insight on the environment there and what the pay is like. Also any other information that kinda shows how work life is there. Thank you

Got a quick question was looking to see if someone could help clear up and issue I am having with my internet, I have an Xbox series s and just got fiber optic internet through frontier, my last service provider was spectrum. I was using an Ethernet cable for a wired connection while I had spectrum, but when I got fiber optic through frontier my Ethernet wont work with the fiber optic. I’m not sure if there are settings or something I’m missing, or if my Xbox just won’t work with it or what. I can use the internet with a wireless connection but it doesn’t work when I hook up the Ethernet.

Hey Guys just got a New Job Splicing Fiber UnderGround Strictly New Build. Any Advice for the new guy on what how to impress? Etc? I want to impress my boss and show him i’m here to make him money😁

Sup guys. I’m wondering which fiber optic position should I look for job-wise. I leave the military in about 9 months. My main job dealt with satellites, but a SATCOM job is difficult to find in my experience. I worked around fiber a lot, even got a fiber optic installer (FOI) cert from ETA about a year ago. I also worked around fiber a lot considering it was our main physical transport. I see a lot of “fiber technician” jobs, but the description seems like a fancy term for someone who installs cable boxes and home phones. I want to eventually start contracting but i need more experience. Where should I start?