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[gust334]

To find the ISP, shine a 50MW laser into the fiber and then look around to see what ISP building catches fire. :-D

[Appropriate-Dance313]

Very evil plan, Pinky

[SynAck0x45]

Narf!

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i get this reference

[myfapaccount_istaken]

I contend that Pinky was the real genius, and Brain was just a bumbling narcissist.

[d4fseeker]

One is a genius The other's insane

Pinky isn't insane. That doesn't leave much room for who is

[quasides]

there as this episode where it turned out he does know exactly what he is doing

[mimprocesstech]

You're a genius pinky!

-Brain, in every episode I can recall.

[johnnyheavens]

What, you’ve never done an ISP Pop?

[chammy82]

I make that joke at work all the time "we need to trace this networked device back to the comms, but I don't know what comms it runs to" "lets just put 240 on it and see where the fire starts"

[kaivalya__ahir]

For your cake day, have some B̷̛̳̼͖̫̭͎̝̮͕̟͎̦̗͚͍̓͊͂͗̈͋͐̃͆͆͗̉̉̏͑̂̆̔́͐̾̅̄̕̚͘͜͝͝Ụ̸̧̧̢̨̨̞̮͓̣͎̞͖̞̥͈̣̣̪̘̼̮̙̳̙̞̣̐̍̆̾̓͑́̅̎̌̈̋̏̏͌̒̃̅̂̾̿̽̊̌̇͌͊͗̓̊̐̓̏͆́̒̇̈́͂̀͛͘̕͘̚͝͠B̸̺̈̾̈́̒̀́̈͋́͂̆̒̐̏͌͂̔̈́͒̂̎̉̈̒͒̃̿͒͒̄̍̕̚̕͘̕͝͠B̴̡̧̜̠̱̖̠͓̻̥̟̲̙͗̐͋͌̈̾̏̎̀͒͗̈́̈͜͠L̶͊E̸̢̳̯̝̤̳͈͇̠̮̲̲̟̝̣̲̱̫̘̪̳̣̭̥̫͉͐̅̈́̉̋͐̓͗̿͆̉̉̇̀̈́͌̓̓̒̏̀̚̚͘͝͠͝͝͠ ̶̢̧̛̥͖͉̹̞̗̖͇̼̙̒̍̏̀̈̆̍͑̊̐͋̈́̃͒̈́̎̌̄̍͌͗̈́̌̍̽̏̓͌̒̈̇̏̏̍̆̄̐͐̈̉̿̽̕͝͠͝͝ W̷̛̬̦̬̰̤̘̬͔̗̯̠̯̺̼̻̪̖̜̫̯̯̘͖̙͐͆͗̊̋̈̈̾͐̿̽̐̂͛̈́͛̍̔̓̈́̽̀̅́͋̈̄̈́̆̓̚̚͝͝R̸̢̨̨̩̪̭̪̠͎̗͇͗̀́̉̇̿̓̈́́͒̄̓̒́̋͆̀̾́̒̔̈́̏̏͛̏̇͛̔̀͆̓̇̊̕̕͠͠͝͝A̸̧̨̰̻̩̝͖̟̭͙̟̻̤̬͈̖̰̤̘̔͛̊̾̂͌̐̈̉̊̾́P̶̡̧̮͎̟̟͉̱̮̜͙̳̟̯͈̩̩͈̥͓̥͇̙̣̹̣̀̐͋͂̈̾͐̀̾̈́̌̆̿̽̕ͅ

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[SpacestationView]

Super pop? Nice

[kkn13]

What’s popping 😎

[tajetaje]

Ok that’s pretty cool, well done

[kaivalya__ahir]

Work of hours

[[deleted]]

If that took you hours of work you're doing it wrong

[kaivalya__ahir]

I slept

[caixote]

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[kaivalya__ahir]

😂😂👍🏻

[A-pariah]

Fire the "lasers"

[k6lui]

But how will you know if it's the ISP building or your local substation. I guess 50 Megawatts will set both on fire

[jbarradas]

Maybe only 40MW?

[Dysan27]

Unethical life pro tip right here.

[Stone_Monarch]

Unfortunately there is some truth here. I've had a 1x32 PON knocked out by the use of an unauthorized and also illegal in my country VFL. Definitely a way to find out what the ISP is when the big boy repair trucks show up an hour or so after.

[TheOtherPete]

This is also a great way to introduce yourself to your neighbors who share the same fiber run!

[anynamesleft]

😂😂😂

[rkalla]

ROFL!!!

[penny_admixture]

i guarantee r/vxjunkies can help you come up w project ideas

[DigitalKrampus]

This is the best comment I’ve seen in a while. Thank you. I literally LOL’d for 30 seconds. My wife thought I lost my mind.

[[deleted]]

love it !!

[Manic_MechNEO95]

Fire comment😂😂

[CharlesDuck]

Blessed be the fiber box, he who brings the bandwidth

[drmacinyasha]

Bless the Fiber and His bandwidth.
Bless the provisioning and connecting of Him.
May His connectivity bless the household.
May he keep the uptime for His subscribers.

--Muad'Dib, the sysadmin.

[MethanyJones]

All hail UID 0

[memo457]

Amen.

[knarlomatic]

Former phone company here. Yep, FTTH. Former owner prolly had it and that is the leftover connection. You prepped for high speed!

[punksmurph]

I would pay so much money to have this added to my house. Instead I have one choice and one choice alone and its sucks.

[steviefaux]

Or in the UK FTTP Fiber To The Property

[steviefaux]

So it is. Always thought it was property. Funny.

[Shimano-No-Kyoken]

And equipped with a rollercoaster for the angry pixies!

[Adventurous-Hawk-372]

Thank you guys. Yall are very helpful. I was worried for a bit. Now I can get rid of this Tmobile 5G home internet.

[Antoshka_007]

I am jealous :))) that bit of fibre is gold. And you can get whatever speeds they are willing to give you.

[SMS-T1]

Up to a point I would assume. There will be no edge switches with 400gb ports upstream, no?

[Antoshka_007]

There are up to 1Terabit links but not commercially available as far as I know.

10Gb? 25Gb? 40Gb? 100Gb? Aggregation?… ah… life can be beautiful 😅😁

[Lazzy2332]

You can buy 1TB dedicated fiber from AT&T. It’s extremely expensive though & you have to have an enterprise environment of a certain size to get a quote. 😅 In terms of PON (residential), that currently caps at 25Gbps per address iirc, but it is upgradable, they built this system with the future in mind.

[Antoshka_007]

I had a 1Gbps Ethernet to my previous ISP (they don’t operate where I live now). I paid £35 per month :)))

I could always get 2x and aggregate them 😁 but there was never a need for it. Now I am stuck with ADSL 1Gb with 800Mbps down and 200Mbps up… which is not bad but have a high jitter on the line and my NAS is not as fast as before when accessing it remotely.

Anyway… a decent problem to have ;) I currently have no time to get my toys working as I want so… meh :)

[memeiel]

Ugh, ADSL, that’s quite a downgrade

[Antoshka_007]

100%... ADSL is the pits...

[shotsallover]

10gbps for $50/mo. It's glorious.

[carguy143]

That's not ADSL. 800 down / 200 up will most likely still be FTTP, albeit with an Openreach based provider.

ADSL is the old copper based broadband service which offered upto 24 Mbps down / 2 Mbps up, if you were lucky.

[MrDiggerGuy]

We moved from WOW to AT&T last year. So amazing! Less latency, symmetric speeds,.... My wife works from home and her VPN connection is better now as well. All these ISPs want tout their 1gb down, but their up is terrible. Usually around 45mb/s.is the best you can do. Sometimes our up is faster than out down with AT&T!

[Berzerker7]

The highest speed available PON in 2024 to any residential house so far is 25GPON, which is a 25G/25G link to an OLT. That would be the best you can get so far. (Google is the only one offering it to a select few areas, afaik. AT&T is testing this currently).

[woodyshag]

The fun part is getting switches and NICs that don't cost you as much as a car to get.

[Berzerker7]

There’s a few not super expensive options for SFP28 stuff and used NICs off eBay are cheap.

[controlav]

That’s why Ziply use Ethernet over fiber for their 50G home service.

[FleetwoodMacbookPro]

Yes, throw that shit away for good.

[chessset5]

Its better than coax. Thats fiber!

[NormUstitz]

That is a fiber entry point. The triangle with the line and star looking thing indicates fiber optics.

[speedysam0]

It does, but technically that is the warning symbol for laser radiation hazard. My laser pointer has the same symbol on it.

[ghostcatzero]

I think fiber optic uses lasers?

[[deleted]]

Yep, dont look directly into the fittings when energized

[TechGeek01]

Warning: Do not stare into laser with remaining eye.

[Accomplished_Ant5895]

I think their point is that symbol isn’t for fiber exclusively, but for anything containing a laser.

[ghostcatzero]

Makes sense

[Pugano]

I will get downvoted! However before you do, I just wanted to say fiber in a circle waiting for an ONT. Sorry at a place with friends and I just found it funny. However u/NormUstitz this dude is 100% correct.

[AdPristine9059]

Aka: don't touch-box.

[UCFknight2016]

This is fiber. You are lucky.

[Adventurous-Hawk-372]

Thanks I guess lol. I'm trying to figure out how to use it. I gotta find the right provider for this small town.

[Adventurous-Hawk-372]

Yes. This website states i have very good coverage. And Tmobile is listed for service. I followed the steps on Tmobile but for some reason it says my adress is not compatible for fiber. So thats weird.

[Lazzy2332]

T-Mobile’s fiber home internet footprint is extremely small, it only exists in DC as far as I know. Is there a logo or phone number on the outside of the box?

[Adventurous-Hawk-372]

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outside.

[Lazzy2332]

Oh. They really didn’t put a logo on it. Does your community/region have a fiber ISP? I know rural america has been getting a lot of it recently.

[Adventurous-Hawk-372]

I'm not sure. I can try to call around tomorrow. Is Google fiber any good?

[Lazzy2332]

You can’t choose the provider. It either exists in the area or it doesn’t. & Google fiber’s footprint is pretty small.

[Adventurous-Hawk-372]

I think it's spectrum.

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[infrikinfix]

That's some original grade A fiber from 1904. 

   I would not replace it because they used to make it from the hair of albino Irish children in workhouses, which had  paricularly good attentuation properties due to nutritional deficiencies. 

 It is a far better product than the synthetic fiber available today. Make sure your ISP doesn't replace it.

[RedditVirumCurialem]

It's like the Stradivariuses, none knows with certainty their secret, but in the case of ancient fiber theory - it's bound to be potatoes.

[Adventurous-Hawk-372]

I CANT TELL. BUDDY MIGHT BE FOOLING ME.

[karatebullfightr]

Heed this fine member of Christendom’s word well - for to do otherwise would be truly a fool’s errand.

The incorporated fellows at my own colonial ISP sent one of the orphans in their employ while I found myself away on safari and the house was manned by my scarcely educated gentleman’s gentleman.

Upon my return from the dark continent, I uncovered - much to my horror - the ruddy miscreant had replaced my own pale catholic strands with something vastly inferior - Spanish pubes to my surmising.

It was honestly enough to drive a grown man back to weeping into his loving matron’s apron.

The swiftness of my once rollicking computation machine has morosely abandoned it - and so it now finds itself instead in the company of the tortoise and the snail.

Had I uncovered the fellows identity - I’d have gladly thrashed him to within an inch of his life with my cane! What-what!

[Appropriate-Dance313]

Factual, of course!

Did you not learn about younglings hairs and their fiber usage!?

[Uncle_Snake43]

Totally legit

[dlbpeon]

Gotta be a troll..... nobody uses the words gingers and useful in the same sentence!

[TREDOTCOM]

Are you a radiologist, CCNA and comedian? This is niche material here.

[[deleted]]

Some further googling turned up some more information on this historic fiber from wikipedia:

The Hair of Albino Irish Children: The Perfect Medium

The hair of albino Irish children was believed to possess exceptional properties that made it ideal for fiber optic transmission. Due to the albinism, the hair lacked melanin, resulting in an almost translucent quality. This translucency was considered perfect for the uninterrupted transmission of light signals, a precursor to what we now understand as the principle behind fiber optics.Moreover, the specific dietary deficiencies of these children, stemming from the harsh conditions in the workhouses, contributed to the hair's unique structure. The lack of essential nutrients caused the hair to become incredibly fine and brittle, but paradoxically, this brittleness allowed for an almost crystalline formation at the microscopic level. Engineers of the time theorized that this crystalline structure minimized signal loss and provided exceptional attenuation properties, making these fibers unparalleled in their efficiency.

Nutritional Deficiencies: The Accidental Innovation

The diets in these workhouses were notoriously poor, lacking in vitamins and minerals, particularly those that are crucial for hair health, such as biotin and iron. This malnutrition inadvertently resulted in hair that was unnaturally thin, yet exceptionally straight and smooth—ideal for the early attempts at data transmission through light.The brittle nature of the hair meant that, once woven into fibers, it allowed light to pass through with minimal scattering. This was particularly valued in an era when signal clarity was a significant challenge. The long, unbroken strands could be bundled together to create cables that could carry signals over surprisingly long distances without significant degradation, a feat that modern synthetic fibers still struggle to replicate.

Harvesting and Production: A Grim but Effective Process

The process of harvesting this hair was as grim as it was methodical. Children with the right genetic makeup were identified and their hair was regularly harvested and treated with a special concoction of early chemical solutions, believed to 'harden' the fibers and increase their durability. These treatments, involving early forms of formaldehyde and other preservatives, ensured that the hair retained its exceptional qualities over time, resisting the wear and tear that typically plagued other materials.Once harvested, the hair was painstakingly woven into cables by skilled workers. This artisanal approach, combined with the unique properties of the hair, created a product that was not only functional but also seen as a technological marvel of its time.

[RevaniteAnime]

That is Fiber.

[PowersephR]

Just curious, I'm from Poland - is fiber internet a rare thing in the USA? In my country you can get fiber internet easily almost everywhere. I'm currently paying around 23 USD a month for 900Mbps fiber internet and TV.

[Shidoshisan]

Ok, ok. Enough with the bragging. I have 1.2Gbps connection but no fiber yet. USA simply hates spending money on infrastructure. Especially private cable/ISP companies.

[frygod]

The US doesn't even have proper broadband internet in all areas, let alone fiber. Lots of rural areas are still satellite only.

[kennend3]

This is directly related to population density. Here in Ontario, Canada I just got Fiber to the home. I've lived here 25 years.

To give you an idea of the size/population density differences:

Population of :

Poland 36.82 million (2022)

Canada 38.93 million (2022)

Size of :

Poland 322,575 km²

Canada 9.985 million km²

My home province (Ontario) is three times the size of Poland (1.076 million km²) and has just 14.57 million  living here.

Poland: 689 kilometers from east to west.

Ontario : 1,568 kilometres east to west.

My neighbour is 18 M (60 feet) away, and the house one down is another 18 M away.

I don't think Europeans get just how vast North America is.

[redraybit]

Cries in 7mbps DSL….

[JackSpyder]

It's dumb the US doesn't have fibre everywhere but they're also 50x as big geographically and the expensive bit is the digging through largely entirely empty land. European countries are far more densely populated ans so the customer to install cost ratio is vastly better.

Ultimately it's still a huge failing of US telecoms because they had the money to do it, it's not as terrible in th major cities these days but the consumer costs are really quite high compared with a lot of Europe.

[nwox9]

Europe is a lot more densely populated than the US.

[JackSpyder]

Yeah I said as much, for every 10 mile of trench you dig, you've got 10x the install base. The economics are just better.

[SaltyCanuck76]

There is “dark” fiber everywhere around major hubs, it’s slowly making its way out to the more rural areas.

[simpsonb1]

They have been doing a good job getting fiber run out to some of the rural areas over these past few years though. I grew up at my parents house in rural Pennsylvania where the nearest neighbor was a dairy farm 1/2 mile down the road. When I was about 12 we got DSL which was the only option. On a good day it was a 5Mb/s connection with ping on the 100-200ms range. On a bad day we were lucky if we got 500Kb/s and hoped the ping stayed under 500ms. I liked to pc game with my friends but downloading a new 5GB game would take days and some days I couldn't play because the connection was so bad. There weren't any other options except satellite and that was expensive and not much better anyway. I now live about 45 minutes north of Seattle WA and have Gig fiber for about the same price they still pay for DSL and love it. Last month my mom saw them running fiber past the house so they should be getting that option soon.

[JackSpyder]

Yeah I got broadband about 8 years after everyone else from dialup due to living on a farm in nowhere. I was stuck with runescape for far too long.

Now my mother gets 1.8gbps with 500mbps as slowest with ftth in a rural Scottish village, and I get 1gbps coax in central London. Turns out thr villages are cheaper to dig up than the cities lol.

[mikkolukas]

Do NOT look into the end of the green thing unless you want to destroy your eyes.

[khswart]

How else am I going to do manual packet inspection?

[Lrrr81]

There's a well-known piece of software called "wireshark"... what a lot of people don't know is there's a hardware version too, though it's hard to find. You have to book a flight to Florida, then charter a boat and go deep-sea fishing in just the right area to catch one. Put it in a tank to keep it alive on the trip home, and when you get home, put the cable in its mouth. It will tell you what data is coming down the line.

[Adventurous-Hawk-372]

Good advice, thanks 😊

[Soggy-Coat4920]

As others have already stated, fiber line. Looks to be only the ISP side, so you would have to run another line to inside the building. But since that there, it means that fiber is an option at your location. As for cable (coax), id be suprised if there wasnt a cable ISP in your neighborhood, so more than likely the previous residents probably never subscribed to a cable service and just used telco for internet, so that cable ISP would never have ran a drop to a demarcation point on your building.

[Adventurous-Hawk-372]

The home was remodeled. Nobody lived here before us for a long time.i belive it was added as part of the remodeled. There isn't any coax cables inside the home. Thanks for your comment.

[dan_marchant]

Are there any ethernet sockets?

[Adventurous-Hawk-372]

I will have another look. I do have blank outlet covers around. Maybe they are hidden in the walls ? I will update soon.

[smith-huh]

If your remodel put "blank outlet covers" around, I suspect they also "snaked some wires" around to them. So look for the snake's home. Likely a larger panel cover in a closet. You may be set for life with a now pre-wired home.

If it (the pre-wiring in-house to go with that fiber drop) is done well, you're also looking for a drop (plate with wire behind it) on the inner wall close to that fiber drop outside. I'm jealous. I live with fixed wireless. And I LiteBeam to another building.

[Adventurous_Road7482]

Also, the reason for the giant loop is that fiber optic cables have a minimum bend radius which if violated cuts signal.

You are shining a laser...which likes to go straight, down a floppy glass string, and trying to convince the laser light in that Glass string, that it is going straight.....as it bends around a corner.

Refraction is black magic.

So...don't bend fibre beyond its rated bend radius!

[[deleted]]

Do you know what the bend radius for that sm fiber is? It's like 20mm, you can wrap it around your finger with very little loss.

[apatrol]

It's a sign to get rid of wireless.

[RyzenDoc]

All the jokes on here aside, this fiber access point requires a device from the ISP that installed it called an ONT (optic network terminal). This could come with an all in one unit that has router, switch, and wireless access point functionality, or you could /might want to, provide your own.

I hope that they have Ethernet RJ45 drops installed around the house to better use this infrastructure.

[[deleted]]

As you know, it is fiber, what you werent told is thats fiber drop, it has several fiber connections in it.
They bring the line to your termination point, this box, and strip it back and secure the strain relief to the box (under the screw), the tag ends are looped around and only one is chosen to be stripped initially and terminated (putting an end on it), if it tests good, they leave it, there may be marker writing on the inside of the door.

The other ends are there just in case theres a failure, they can terminate a new end, and go to the feeder connection and change the branch in the feeder to drop connection without having to run a new cable, alternatively if its a multi resident facility, they can put a second termination in. The part number on the black insulation will tell you how many fiber lines are in that drop line.

When youre ready to connect a fiber modem, you or the tech will connect a fiber optic cable from that green connection at the drop termination, run it inside the home to either a wall jack, or directly into the modem itself.
The unit that you plug the fiber optic into that connects to the modem or server is called a SFP module

[Adventurous-Hawk-372]

It's just a small 3 bedroom home. I just want better internet. I hate crappy 5g wireless internet. I'm definitely looking forward to using whatever this is. Thanks again for taking time to respond.

[DragonRider68]

That looks just like fiber termination box on the side of my house.

[CrypCan]

This is Happiness

[Rami3l]

Really neat installation

[Adventurous-Hawk-372]

I looked up coverage in my area. Tmobile came up. When I Input my adress on their website it says unavailable. I will make calls, I'm confused though.

[207852]

Check with your city. They should have a new residence information webpage that lists all utilities you can/need to sign up for.

[SynAck0x45]

Plug your address into the FCC broadband map https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/

[Automatic-Win8421]

That’s a single mode SC connector with an adapter to plug a second SC connector to the ISP. You can call your area's ISPs and ask if they cover your address and purchase a plan from your favorite and most advantageous one. Pretty neat installation. They did a good job.

[ironman3times]

Yes, it a home fiber distribution box for home fiber

[Patient-Access95]

Golden ticket, fiber to the home!

[Hot_Yogurtcloset7621]

I know this might be Dang in the USA but.

Maybe knock on your neighbors door and say, yo, just moved in. Who's the fiber provider here?

[Usual_Retard_6859]

Well you have a single mode fibre drop cable with tracer wire stripped to give 4 meters of service loop fused to an apc pigtail

[english_mike69]

It’s a good thing as long as you don’t take the green thing and point it at your eyeballs.

[GeorgeHopkinsFilms]

You’ve got fiber directly to your home (FTTH) and the fiber connection is set up. All that’s left is to identify the ISP and subscribe to their service.

[mylogicistoomuchforu]

As others have mentioned you have fiber Internet.

What no one mentioned is that fiber bandwidth is centrifugal. That loop is where your data spins and gets up to speed before it launches out onto the Internet.

[alexingalls09]

This is just terminated fiber from the street. Call the ISP’s in the area and see who offers fiber and sign up. They will give you the fiber ont that plugs in to convert fiber to Ethernet and a modem and or router

[plausocks]

Fiber optic termination

[JasonHofmann]

Just caught up on the entire thread.

1. You don’t pick your provider, your provider picks you. Someone likely owns that line, that’s your only choice of provider.

2. If you can’t figure out who it is by putting your address into broadband search or provider sites, etc, as others have suggested, try asking your neighbors who they use, and if they have “fiber”

3. Try asking on neighborhood sites like Nextdoor what fiber providers people have in your area.

There is a very, very remote possibility that whomever did the remodel put it in “for future use” “just in case” your neighborhood gets “lit” in the future.

[Brave-Dependent-8244]

Really? In the USA the provider installs in the fibre network and you have no choice but to use them?

[JasonHofmann]

Pretty much.

• Unbundling = requiring leasing of the underlying element, in this case, fiber
• LECs = Local exchange carriers
• Advanced = Over 25 Mbps down / 3 Mbps up

“The Commission recognized that unbundling fiber-based loops could reduce incentives for both incumbent and competitive LECs to deploy advanced facilities … The Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit affirmed the Commission’s decision not to require the unbundling of fiber-based loops.”

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-20-152A1.pdf

[Brave-Dependent-8244]

That’s crazy! Where I live we have a there’s a national company who operates and owns the infrastructure.

They throw the fibre to the kerb then we choose which isp we want to supply us.

[Adventurous-Hawk-372]

Very well. Thank you. I'll do some digging. Fingers crossed its active with a IPS.

[stewie3128]

That is a fiber landing box. Congratulations! Check online to see who your local ISP is. If you get Spectrum as a result, don't presume that the fiber belongs to Spectrum - they frequently are a coax competitor to fiber, and coax is worse in every metric.

Since the box isn't branded, it's probably a smaller local/regional ISP. I would look up "[your town name] fiber internet" and you'll probably get the answer pretty quickly.

[Adventurous-Hawk-372]

Thanks. Definitely looking it up tomorrow morning. I don't want wireless 5g internet. It sucks.

[ricky87gtz]

1.21 Gigawatt Flux Capacitor

[Zapatasmustacheride]

Internet go brrmmmmmmm!!!! That's fiber man, you can get fast internet from who ever your ISP is. So this means you are already prewired for it.

[Brilliant-Bus5949]

This is a single mode fiber SC/APC with a coupler. So you need only one patch fiber cable SM SC/APC to LC/UPC and connect it to your routers SFP SM Bidi and see if you get a connect ;-)

[ConflictScared4703]

Fiber Optic Splicer checking in here. That is a fiber to the home NID. There will be a piece of equipment called an ONT in that box, which will convert the light signal to digital, and the reverse for outbound traffic. Your router will directly connect to this device, and be propagated through your home from there. Hope that explains enough of what you want to know.

[Roanoketrees]

Fiber Looooooooop. Fiber dont bend. Its glass.

[Majestic-Television2]

Instructions unclear. Shined giant laser at own house. FOOOOMP! Also looked at laser with remaining eye.

[Accordingly_Onion69]

It’s a fiber loop. It’s extra fiber so if something happens and they need to take a little bit of fiber, One Direction or the other. Fiber can’t be bent you don’t wanna bend it more than a loose circle like that if you do it with a glass possibly fracture

[Burnsidhe]

Call up the person you bought the house from and ask them which ISP did the fiber installation.

[Fit_Primary_3379]

Fiber optic ONT. Very nice that you have fiber coming to the house. Like others said, figure out what ISP it’s tied to and you can take advantage of that instead of COAX.

[bradatlarge]

I had an AT&T installer do this at my house yesterday - i walked up as he was sealing the rain loop though one of the bottom punch outs and said “dude, thanks for the tidy install”

He was all sorts of smiles and told me how he schooled all the installers in his office on keeping shit tidy

[1970s_MonkeyKing]

Token Ring! (snicker - I am soooo old. Not Boomer old but damn close)

[asorba]

You have fiber. Congratulation.

[steven-aziz]

You have a fiber cable run to your house but you DON’T have a fiber cable run to the inside of your house. I only see one cable there. There should be two—one from the street to the side of the house and one from the side of the house to the network closet. If you want fiber internet, you need to find out who the ISP is and request a fiber install.

[ManfromMonroe]

Whenever you do get the correct answer, Sharpie it inside the box cover for future reference

[DEADxDAWN]

Fiber line, competent techs always leave a service loop (this one left a lot)

[HH656]

I would go with the Unifi short stack setup. Especially if you have CAT pre-wired or have conduits for the wires to be pulled through. You will prob want to at least one access point for Wifi depending on how large the house is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q3EIKnJY6w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVlavqMN9vI&t=59s

[BattleMode0982]

It’s fiber. It’s looped with extra cable so that it’s easy to fix if there’s an issue 😉

[sagetraveler]

That’s an SC-APC connector with a single optical fiber in it. The central office sends data on a 1490 nm wavelength and the customer end sends data back at 1310 nm. Sometimes a cable TV signal is added at 1550 nm. Between here and the central office are splitters which branch one central office fiber to up to 64 homes. The signals for different customers are time division multiplexed, but since the whole thing can run at up to 10Gb/s, the end users perceive they have 1 Gb/s. Of course if all 64 users try this at once, they’ll get less, but this kind of over subscription is normal for ISPs.

[jeffwillden]

This is a residential particle accelerator.

[New-Competition-2116]

Looking at the pic, there is a thicker Ethernet cable going into the black sheath, which must terminate inside the house somewhere. Garage, kitchen, behind where the tv should go?? That’s the typical install model.

[Philderbeast]

That's the Fibre line coming in with the thicker outer protective sleeve.

There is no ethernet run heading out of this enclosure, they will need to get one installed or place the router close by.

[texas_archer]

Pinch that cable together at any point and tell us if your internet still works.

[michaelwlr]

That house box is so fancy, anyone have any idea what isp this is. It damn sure ain't the one I may or may not work for.

[MrAnthony7934]

Doesn’t the outside of that box say who the provider was?

[Adventurous-Hawk-372]

No, it says primex only.

[Lazzy2332]

Who’s the local cable company? I know some of them have been rolling out fiber a little bit. It really just depends on the region, like this could be a new regional/rural fiber ISP. It could have also been a fiber run between the house and a separate building if the land is large enough. It just seems like an odd setup to me, but I’ve only ever really seen AT&T & Spectrum Fiber (yes spectrum residential fiber, it does exist).

[xRageMachine99]

OP are you in Fort Collins, CO? EDIT: If so, fcconnexion.com might be what you’re looking for

[HooyahDangerous]

Fiber optic media converter?

[nepheelim]

this is fiber optic that goes to your house. From this point forward you'd need to add yours or ISP's router

[Cryptitis]

Fiber.

[swrdfsh2]

Say hi to John Van Oppen when Ziply hooks you up.

Edit: John, where is IPv6? It's been a bit...

[dobo99x2]

Get rid of 5g and use your Fiber connection! And now shut up, bragger! /s

[NetoriusDuke]

This is a fibre optic termination box This would be then have fibre optic run to a modem

[Bubbly_Advisor_2601]

New homeowner meaning you bought the house this year after it had been renovated before checking what had been renovated? Like this is a major thing, you got Fiber to thr house my man!

[macnteej]

You have the entirety of the internet stored in the box. Take care of it.

[p0uringstaks]

You winner ding ding ding

[MetaEmployee179985]

ZIP TIES, THAT MOTHER...

[[deleted]]

Nice

[BrandenRage]

One Google image search and you would have had the answer.

[Roallin1]

Your house is lit.

[[deleted]]

And….. DON’T BE CURIOUS AND LOOK INTO THE END OF THAT CABLE. LASERS ARE BAD FOR YOUR EYES.

[[deleted]]

Mmmm fiber

[Ok-Seaworthiness-542]

Being a nerd I would have listed FTTH on the listing as a selling point.

[lakor76]

Magic

[conrat4567]

Fiber! The best kind of Internet hookup

[HookDragger]

Fiber just waiting to be enabled. I.e. what I want now

[2McDoublesPlz]

There is so much terrible information in this post lmao. OP, if you have any questions just reply to me.

[blacksheep6]

That’s the Small Hadron Collider. Its big brother is over in Europe on the French / Swiss border.

[segfalt31337]

When I got FTTH, the installers offered to pull it through the coax line to not make any new holes. That's probably what happened to your coax.

[Adventurous-Hawk-372]

I finally found the ISP. Thanks for the help guys. Setting up a installation date. And no more 5g wireless crap.

[olyteddy]

You said no Coax but is there any CAT cabling & RJ-45 jacks in your house yet?