Re: FIOS installation in the house

["Grant M.-2" <user=130@nabble.blu.org>]

 Doug wrote: 
> The misses is worried about the kind folks "pulling wires" inside the 
> house to get the copper for resale.  They say they must be able to get 
> inside all the units.  From my reading, it sounds like the exercise is 
> all about installing the Optical Network Terminal (ONT) box, which 
> needs power and a backup and a patch of wall to live in.\ 
Correct (I've just had the works installed). 

> Does a FIOS installation involve touching any of the wires inside the 
> house?  I argued that they would do absolutely nothing to our POTS 
> (plain old telephone service).  Those twisted pairs of wires stay in 
> place, no one from Verizon would get near them.  We have Comcast 
> service for our phone, and she is concerned the Verizon people will 
> rip out wires inside the home that Comcast needs. 
I actually re-ran all of my wiring through my basement in anticipation 
of the install (the cable company had run all of the coax around the 
permimiter, which looked like crap). They do not touch any of the 
internal wiring unless you ask them to, and then it's at the discretion 
of the installed. Basically, they are just replacing your line from the 
street with fiber, and then installing the ONT. The ONT has terminations 
  for phone, network, and cable (coax), although mine uses the coax for 
the router. They include a wireless router which you can get the 
password to (if you ask). 

> If we were to order phone service from Verizon, then they connect the 
> ONT to any jack, and that would make the phone "live".  If we ordered 
> a data line, I'd have to get an ethernet cable to the ONT.  If we get 
> TV, that would involve connecting a coaxial cable to our internal 
> coaxial cables.  If we ordered nothing, then we have something to add 
> to the resale value of the condo. 
As I said, I had already pre-wired everything, but basically they can 
connect the ONT to any of the existing phone jacks and you'll be live on 
all of them (as the line should connect to the network terminal block as 
all the rest do). there are 2 phone jacks on the ONT, I assume for a 2nd 
line (although you could probably just get vonage or something). 

Note: the installer will remove your regular phone hard line to the 
street during the install. I assume that this is to make it more 
difficult to go back, as Verizon really hates those copper lines (from 
what I hear it's a huge maintenance issue for them every time it rains). 
In today's day of cell phone proliferation, I didn't see it as an issue, 
though. 

> One thing I am not clear on: the TV service.  Is that coaxial inside 
> the house?  I know that it will only be digital signals.  Are there 
> digital->analog boxes? 

It's actually both. You get a box for each TV at around 5-6 dollars a 
month, or you can just connect direct for analog. The boxes manage all 
of the digital, and will output analog for regular TVs, but also has 
composite and optical. I have 2 of my sets with boxes and one without 
(my Hauppauge card is just analog). I haven't really done much to see 
what channels are available on analog, though. 
Grant M. 
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