re: What are the downsides of switching to AT&T Fiber? (For a business)

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This goes back to my question in OP (I also clarified this is for my office). My sweet is located a few offices away from the closet where the fiber will originate. Will they run cable from that origination to my office or will I have to rely on Wi-Fi from the equipment closet? If so how good is the Wi-Fi because there's about two or three offices between me and the equipment closet

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They tend to bring their stuff in and put their big router in what they call the DMARC. Usually in a central place like you mentioned. From there it is usually up to you to pay someone and get it to your suite.

So you may need someone to run a line from the DMARC to your suite. That could be fiber or if the distance is short enough, an ethernet line. Once at your suite you would connect the router, wifi, whatever, that you want to use.

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My sweet is located a few offices away from the closet where the fiber will originate.

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Nice that you can work close to her.


This is a fairly traditional office building with drop ceilings and/or attic space? Most commercial buildings are infinitely reconfigurable. When ATT started pushing fiber for my office, they (for free) sent out an engineer to look and make sure it could be done. It required a small building modification (a small hole drilled through a firewall that the building owner was happy to accommodate). Then they came in and hooked from the street to the network closet of the building and from that closet to my networking closet.
I have a redundant internet setup in my office- Both a cable and a fiber provider, and both were basically responsible (and happy) to get the lines needed from essentially the far end of the building to my suite. Our building has probably 12 or so tenants, and cabling from the network closet traverses at least 4 other offices/suites before resting in my office. From there, it goes into my networking equipment- about 28 or so drops, half of which are phones and 2 access points which covers an 8,000ish sqft office. So, from your later post where you say you ran coax from your office to that office, you should, at worst, probably be able to replace that coax with a cat6.
Let’s just say that’s not an option, you’re basically talking about a room in a house with no wall/ceiling access, and the only way you can do anything is to connect the two rooms with the pre-run coax. If that’s the case, then you just grab yourself a “MoCa adapter” pair and go: ATT ONT/router—>Ethernet—>MoCa—>coax—> your office—> Ethernet—> some form of wireless access point/switch/one computer/etc.