That’s exactly what I did. I was able to get a 3/4 conduit from my furnace room/network closet to the exterior of my home where utilities enter. It took some doing but I got it in, terminated in a NEMA box.
When we got fiber a few years ago, the installer told me it was the easiest install he’s ever done. In that conduit I have fiber, coax, one Cat6 and also a sprinkler wire (whomever built my home had sprinklers put in the back yard but not the front, but I took care of that oversight). ---- Andy Ringsmuth 5609 Harding Drive Lincoln, NE 68521-5831 (402) 202-1230 a...@andyring.com “A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.” -Thomas Jefferson > On Nov 27, 2023, at 8:12 AM, Josh Luthman <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote: > > If I was building a house I'd just get some 1" conduit from the outside to > the inside. Put it in a NEMA box. That solves the problem forever. > > As a fiber ISP, and assuming you're doing your own WiFi in the house, you can > do conduit inside or we can just run the fiber. We don't want to run up/down > walls and such. 99% of our installs are through the exterior wall and then a > u6x covers the house. We run fiber > > If you're in a cableCo area just run coax to get to your modem/router > situation. > > I'm not sure what the Cat5 is for outside. Ethernet isn't going to work and > DSL is nearly dead already. > > On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 2:33 PM Sean Donelan <s...@donelan.com> wrote: > Thanks Brandon Martin, > > I agree 1-inch smurf tube is overkill for FTTH. From my quick research > into all things FTTH, which I didn't know anything a week ago :-) ... > > The regulators in other countries still believe they will create > competition. The 25mm/32mm access duct (I'm going to make up a new > term, and just call it "access duct", i.e. that smurf tube, conduit, > pathway thing) is big enough for either a fiber microduct, cat 6 copper > or RG6 coax. Even a 12/24/48-volt DC power cable for active > equipment at the NID/demarc. The regulators keep all their competitors > happy by not favoring any particular technology. > > In practice, the countries with the biggest FTTH deployments have very > little FTTH competition at the physical access layer. > > Microduct, microduct, microduct is what the dominant access provider > wants in those countries. The dominant carrier wants builders to install > "direct fiber" or "bypass fiber" microducts in new construction directly > from every dwelling (house or apartment) to the carrier's central access > point for the builder's development (apartment buildings or neighborhood). > > Microduct only means no pre-built access for other competitors. > > Apartment construction in Asia is very large. Several countries are > also adding in-building mobile/wireless service requirements for new MDU > building construction. > > > My interpretation, not understanding the country-specific FTTH fights... > > The regulators appear to say, Ok, dominant carrier - you can have > "direct fiber" microduct but builders must also provide an "open > competition" 25mm/32mm access duct from the building entrance point (NID) > or apartment consolidation points (CP) to the individual distribution box > (DD) inside each dwelling. > > Just my uninformed take, corrections welcome.
