Questions about the installation of fiber optics
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Hello forum members,
I have finally decided to change my struggling ADSL for a fiber optic connection from Movistar, but I have no idea how fiber connections work and I have some doubts about the installation that I would like to discuss with you.My building is new construction, so it is relatively prepared for communications. The PTRs of each floor are in the stairwell. In fact, when they installed the landline, I wasn't even at home :ugly:. They did it from outside and I just had to connect the phone to any of the sockets on the floor. I suppose that with fiber it won't be like that.
A year ago, Telefónica did the pre-installation of fiber in the community. I suppose that this pre-installation consisted of wiring the staircase from top to bottom to the connection boxes on each floor.
My doubts arise about how the fiber will enter each floor, because according to what I have read, it has to reach the computer with the router. The computer is in the corner opposite the entrance door, so they would have to go through the whole floor to reach that room :facepalm::facepalm:.
Is it really like that? What alternatives are there? Can I connect a PLC to the router as I had until now, or do I need another neutral router to distribute the network to the rest of the devices?Thank you very much.
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la instalacion que estará hecha en el edificio es de la Caja Terminal Optica (CTO)
Cuando te das de alta, el instalador tira un cable de fibra desde el CTO al interior de casa, instalando un PTR-O (Punto Terminal de Red Optica), equivalente (junto a la ONT) al PTR analogico del ADSL convencional.
Aqui ya tenemos fibra en el hogar, ahora hay que convertirla en ethernet, para eso a este PTR-O se enchufa una ONT (Optical Network Termination, o Terminacion de Red Optica) que basicamente transforma la señal de fibra en señal de red, y a esta ONT se enchufa un router que es el que da red a la LAN
Aqui (muy grosso modo) termina la instalacion FTTH.
Si no tienes cableado donde el ordenador, en teoria tiene que poderse usar el PLC para llevar la señal de la ONT al router o del router al PC. Movistar vende unos PLC que se supone que son la leche, pero deberias confirmarlo con el instalador -
Muchas gracias Packosoft.
Pero dado que la instalación del edificio esta preparada (o supuestamente preparada), ¿es posible que tanto el PTR-O como el ONT lo instalen en las cajas que hay fuera y me lleguen los datos a través de la instalación del teléfono como hasta ahora? Igual estoy diciendo una tontería…:mudo:
Es decir, que yo pueda conectar el router a la roseta telefónica que tenga más cerca del ordenador ¿o el router tiene que ir conectado directamente al ONT, por lo que tendrían que tirar una nueva instalación de cable para llevar el ONT hasta el interior de casa? -
Many thanks Packosoft.
But since the building installation is prepared (or supposedly prepared), is it possible that both the PTR-O and the ONT install it in the boxes that are outside and I get the data through the telephone installation as before? Maybe I'm saying something silly…:mudo:
That is, can I connect the router to the telephone socket that is closest to the computer or does the router have to be connected directly to the ONT, so they would have to pull a new cable installation to bring the ONT inside the house?Yes, you are saying something silly. It can't be done through the telephone cable, it would have to be UTP network cable.
The router you have is ADSL and it's no longer good for you. They will give you another one.You have several options:
ONT in the stairwell or in the closest point and then UTP cable to wherever you want
ONT in the stairwell or in the closest point and PLC
fiber to wherever you want inside the house (they will have to install it and I don't know if it's included)The technician will most likely go for the second option I listed because he won't have to do almost anything :troll:
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Thanks Mystique.
Come on, they're going to have to lay 3 km of cable in my house. :osvaisacagar: :facepalm: -
It depends on the operator, here R puts coaxial up to the router, but Movistar, as they told me, bring optical fiber up to the house. It would ruin the quality of the connection if once it arrives at your building they connect it through a copper pair, for that there are ADSL. You will have to put the router where the fiber connection enters and then send the connection wherever you want by wifi, plc, lan...
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R is like ono, fiber to the node and coaxial to the cable modem. It has nothing to do with FTTH, which puts the fiber to your house. According to some workmates who are with the Vodafone fiber project, it's like packo describes it: fiber to the house and then it "transforms" into network cable to the router. You have the options I mentioned before, to leave the fiber "at the door" or to put fiber to where the router is. The first one is easier for the installer and then it's up to you to pull network cable (because the installer probably won't do it) to where you want or go by plc PD: the router they will put will be "neutral", from the ONT it will distribute to the equipment you have -
Now I have the router connected by cable to PC1, the one I use for work and I am already using PLC to connect the HTPC and the living room TV to watch streaming content from PC1. But PC1 is in another room and it is not easy (or aesthetic) to run a cable. The rest of the devices (laptops, smartphones, tablets, etc.) go by Wi-Fi.
The problem is that, as you mention, the technician probably wants to put the router at the entrance door but, given the elongated distribution of the floor, the wifi signal gets very weak and does not become decent until you have reached the middle. I suppose it is due to the sum of the distance (about 20m) and all the walls it has to go through.
