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Can a fiber optic cable be spliced UPDATE
Posted on 3/27/20 at 10:26 am
Posted on 3/27/20 at 10:26 am
Internet is out and it went out after some digging was done close to my U-Verse fiber optic cable. The ATT technician is coming tomorrow.
At my house there is a good 250-300 ft of fiber optic cable from my house to the nearest box. If the cable is cut, can he splice it together or will he have to lay a whole new length?
3/29/2020 Update. The technician from ATT came yesterday. He spliced the cut cable together in 20-30 min. There is no drop in internet speed. Charge was $99. He said he saved me a lot of money.
At my house there is a good 250-300 ft of fiber optic cable from my house to the nearest box. If the cable is cut, can he splice it together or will he have to lay a whole new length?
3/29/2020 Update. The technician from ATT came yesterday. He spliced the cut cable together in 20-30 min. There is no drop in internet speed. Charge was $99. He said he saved me a lot of money.
This post was edited on 3/29/20 at 7:15 am
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Posted on 3/27/20 at 10:42 am to NorthTiger
viber? Is that like poisonous fiber?
Posted on 3/27/20 at 10:44 am to NorthTiger
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If the cable is cut, can he splice it together or will he have to lay a whole new length?
Most of the time, yes. It'd have to be REALLY bad to require a completely new pull.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 11:14 am to NorthTiger
It can always be spliced. They'll have to dig up on either side and do a fusion splice. It also should be in innerduct so a section of innerduct will also need to be put in.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 11:23 am to NorthTiger
I had the same thing happen with Frontier about a month ago. I didn't see the tech even attempt a repair. He just laid a new line, about about 300' of it.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 12:39 pm to TAMU-93
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I had the same thing happen with Frontier about a month ago. I didn't see the tech even attempt a repair. He just laid a new line, about about 300' of it.
I would think for anything under 1000 feet or so they would just replace as they would have to find the break, splice and test and hope there wasn't other damage elsewhere caused by the same work or even the work done by the repair crew getting to the line.
Just my thoughts from a potential unknown cost view. Not sure what the fusion splicing equipment costs these days but it used to be expensive enough to splice that it was usually better to replace in shorter lengths.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 12:51 pm to mdomingue
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I would think for anything under 1000 feet or so they would just replace as they would have to find the break
There’s only one place there was digging so it’s either there or i would assume nowhere. Shock me technician and tell me it’s bad hardware (2 years old)
Posted on 3/27/20 at 1:49 pm to mdomingue
Seems like in most subdivisions they are putting pull boxes every ~400'-500'. I assume they've determined that to be the break even point for replacing vs repair.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 3:01 pm to NorthTiger
yes but not by a diy. you could probably get it good enough to use but not nearly the speed you're used to.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 3:07 pm to arcalades
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you could probably get it good enough to use but not nearly the speed you're used to.
nope
Posted on 3/27/20 at 8:02 pm to NorthTiger
I have att and they recently had to come run a new line about 400 feet from end of driveway to my house. Said splice would diminish signal and running new one was easy.
Probably a month ago.
Probably a month ago.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 8:08 pm to arcalades
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yes but not by a diy. you could probably get it good enough to use but not nearly the speed you're used to
Posted on 3/27/20 at 9:56 pm to PTBob
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Said splice would diminish signal and running new one was easy.
Then “they” didn’t know what the frick they were talking about. A fiber splice isn’t even a blip in the overall run.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 10:10 pm to VABuckeye
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It can always be spliced. They'll have to dig up on either side and do a fusion splice. It also should be in innerduct so a section of innerduct will also need to be put in.
This. I think they like 20ft each side of the cut.
Posted on 3/28/20 at 8:34 am to shawnlsu
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you could probably get it good enough to use but not nearly the speed you're used to.
NEVER gonna happen.
*former network engineer
Posted on 3/28/20 at 8:20 pm to dakarx
A professional doing it there’s no degradation. An amateur? GFL
Owns a company that deals with fiber splicing.
Owns a company that deals with fiber splicing.
This post was edited on 3/28/20 at 8:21 pm
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