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Telus Fibre install and routing

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Telus killed off support of their copper network so all the houses got fibre installed to the house / last mile. Since I still got landline, they have to run the line inside to the closest phone jack for the phones to work. As my house was built in the mid 1990's, there's no network run inside the wall.
 
Shadowmeph said:
I still can remember years back when they started fibre and higher sped many people getting it and saying I fibre and what not but didnt understand that yes fibre runs yup to the pole or what ever outside your home but does your home itself have the fibre optics . I know this old building I live in doesn't but a few elderly people ion here are paying for fibre which is a fair amount more same goes for my mother's building Telus was trying to sell her some deal with Fibre and I told her you don't need it for what she does but also about the buildings old wiring
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Typically what you're getting these days is FTTH which is essentially fiber to the ONT inside the house (whether that is a separate unit depends on the provider... Bell incorporates the ONT into their modem/router, Rogers to the best of my knowledge is still using a stand-alone ONT that then plugs into the router using ethernet).

What used to be questionable marketing was Rogers' claim that they had a "fiber powered" network which was used to describe the fact that their backbone was based off of fiber, while their home connections were still DOCSIS Cable with it's inherent latency, asynchronous up/down, and generally slower max speeds.

Rogers is now rolling out FTTH but unless they've changed things recently, they're still using an ONT that's external to their router which then uses up the only multi-gig Ethernet port thus there's no ethernet out that's higher than 1GB.
 
Weird, when I got my fiber installed the tech just said where do you want it. He was down to run it anywhere I wanted. It's just the single small cable anyhow
 
moocow said:
They already installed the line to the house, punched a hole in the side of my house where the spare office is because that's the only place where an internal phone jack is closest to the external wall and incoming line.
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So you have all the hardware already then, just no active Internet service? Basically they "forced" you to VoIP as you had telephone service?

Does your basement have an accessible ceiling? If so, I would think you could drill a small hole in the floor to run CAT6 down to the basement where your servers are, and then hook into your MOCA network there to get it back up to your office. If the ceiling is finished, up to you, but you could get a 2-3ft drill bit and still drill straight down (ideally in the corner of both rooms). The installer might be able to do this for you too as they'd have the bit.
 
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Sadly my basement doesn't have drop ceiling. Another option is to rip out the base board in my office and drop a CAT 6 down to the spare office and hook up the modem. But that would piss off other people in the house. Which is why I'm asking what's the community experience with AP or meshing using 6E and I'm concern about traffic being choked.
 
6GHz has worse penetration, but I have no experience with WiFi 6E. It's probably still faster than WiFi 5 or 6, though since you are just going through a floor? The bigger issue is the latency, and I think only WiFi 7 has improved on that.

Might be worth getting a quote from an electrician to run some CAT6 cable in the walls? Fiber Internet has multi-gig speeds now and its only going to keep advancing, so it may make more sense to invest now in cabling if you don't want to rely on WiFi forever. Plus WiFi 6E stuff is pretty expensive, I guess WiFi 7 hardware should be compatible now too but it's just as costly.
 
moocow said:
Sadly my basement doesn't have drop ceiling. Another option is to rip out the base board in my office and drop a CAT 6 down to the spare office and hook up the modem. But that would piss off other people in the house. Which is why I'm asking what's the community experience with AP or meshing using 6E and I'm concern about traffic being choked.
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If the router was central it might be "good enough", but where it's at one end of the house I suspect you won't get great coverage at the other end. I'd recommend figuring out a way to extend your coverage to the APs even if that involves connecting one of the APs to the router, and then wirelessly meshing the second one to that in order to extend coverage across the house.
 
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