Fibe New-install questions

bpsmicro · 2025-03-08T14:26:18+00:00

My eldest's apartment building is about to get Fibe run to all the units. It's a building from the 70's, currently with cable. We have managed to determine where the fiber will pop out of the wall in his unit, and it's about as far away from the TV (and his existing networking gear) as possible. The existing cable line was just stapled up and over doors and on baseboard to travel to the far corner. It's a hell of a run. He doesn't have TV service or home phone, just Internet. He plans to keep it that way, but we should plan as though he can change his mind on TV. We're going by the assumption that the new Fibe modem will go near the fiber jack, because that makes most sense. So we're trying to plan for the "inside" work. When the time comes, will the Bell installer run a cable from the modem to where the TV is? Will they normally also run a CAT6 (or equivalent) to where it's needed for all the existing gear? Or can the one cable for TV do double-duty for TV and networking? We're just trying to determine whether we need to plan to run all the inside wiring from modem to router, or if we can rely on the Bell tech handling that. Everything else from router to all the devices is already working. Brad.

Dks01

Eskimo007 I use Wifi to usb dongles off Bell pods. They work just fine.

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