All Day Posted July 9, 2021 Report Share Posted July 9, 2021 I was just notified by Telmex that I can make an appointment to upgrade to fiber. Has anyone had this done, and if so, do they run fiber into the home or do they use the existing copper connection and link to a fiber backbone? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyPanda Posted July 9, 2021 Report Share Posted July 9, 2021 That would be highly unlikely anywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mostlylost Posted July 9, 2021 Report Share Posted July 9, 2021 In all the installations I have seen they run fiber optic into the house and install a new modem. Also your hardwired phone converts to using the modem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floradude Posted July 9, 2021 Report Share Posted July 9, 2021 They ran the cable into the house. It from the street to the property, along the top of the wall to the house, up on top of the house and down the other side into the wall at the location of my computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickS Posted July 10, 2021 Report Share Posted July 10, 2021 12 hours ago, AndyPanda said: That would be highly unlikely anywhere. Actually it is very common everywhere.... fiber out to a neighborhood DSLAM box and then copper DSL to the home. Of course the speed is NOT fiber-ish at all but this is what the OP might have been asking.... is it REAL FTTH or just fiber out into the neighborhood and copper into the house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traderspoc Posted July 10, 2021 Report Share Posted July 10, 2021 Yes fiber direct to your modem all of el parquet is hooked up fiber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mostlylost Posted July 10, 2021 Report Share Posted July 10, 2021 12 hours ago, RickS said: Actually it is very common everywhere.... fiber out to a neighborhood DSLAM box and then copper DSL to the home. Of course the speed is NOT fiber-ish at all but this is what the OP might have been asking.... is it REAL FTTH or just fiber out into the neighborhood and copper into the house. When Telmes does that they do not notify the subscribers that are affected. They only send the emails & texts when fiber is available for the individual house. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyPanda Posted July 10, 2021 Report Share Posted July 10, 2021 14 hours ago, RickS said: Actually it is very common everywhere.... fiber out to a neighborhood DSLAM box and then copper DSL to the home. Of course the speed is NOT fiber-ish at all but this is what the OP might have been asking.... is it REAL FTTH or just fiber out into the neighborhood and copper into the house. Let's get our definitions straight. What you are talking about is called Fiber To The Node (FTTN). That is, running fiber to the corner street box (slab, cabinet, node, terminal, ports, whatever you want to call it). And that is one way to deliver service, which then gets converted to copper to go to the poles and to the home. But the definition of Fibre To The Home (FTTH) is most definitely fiber from the box, to the pole, to the home. The question was do they run fiber into the home, or copper from a fibre backbone. And the answer is unequivocally NO. No one does. It's a waste of money, defeats the purpose, and would cause all kinds of troubleshooting issues with the converters, boxes, wiring, cable, corner slabs, network management, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TelsZ4 Posted July 10, 2021 Report Share Posted July 10, 2021 Why would you run copper to the modem.. it would defeat the purpose of using fiber. The hard part is stringing fiber from pole to pole, the easy part is going from the pole to the modem.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcscats Posted July 10, 2021 Report Share Posted July 10, 2021 Since speed of DSL(2 wire metal ) is based on distance from Switch eliminating much of this wire can increase your speed. I have seen 30 down in SAT with no change in modems and no Fiber to house. Before changes they were getting 1 to 10 down. While my fiber to my house is much better 30 down is enough to run streaming TV so we do have some part fiber connections at least in SAT. This has happened in the last few months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyPanda Posted July 10, 2021 Report Share Posted July 10, 2021 I don't know specifically about what is in your area, but VDSL is perfectly capable of providing 40 Mbps over copper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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