The Fiber to the Premises Install Process

SkinnyGuy writes "Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) or Fiber-based broadband is still in a very few areas, but PCMag's Lance Ulanoff has it and he seems to really, really like all 15MBPS of it. There's also an extensive slideshow on the whole installation process." From the article: "The power out is connected to the box, and the fiber ends in the box and comes out as Cat 5e, which runs back through the hole all the way to a new D-Link router. That's right: In addition to the box on the outside and the UPS inside, Verizon also gave me a new wireless G router, which includes four wired ports. This is a lot of free equipment (though I might incur some charges if I were to quit FiOS before the year had gone by). All this--not including the through-the-tree cable run--took another 2 hours or so."

Get that fiber!

[__aaclcg7560]

Doctor told me to get more fiber in my diet but I don't think this is it.

1.7 gigabytes in 12 minutes

[Anonymous Coward]

In darkened coners all over the land, *aa execs are quietly sobbing.

Oh heck, I'm quietly sobbing.

I think I speak for everyone when I say

[Anonymous Coward]

YOU BASTARD!!

Easy there

[Mr. Underbridge]

YOU BASTARD!!

Easy buddy. He just got fiber, it's not like he killed Kenny or something.