How is AT&T fiber connected to your house?
This is because to have AT&T fiber internet in your home, the fiber optic cable has to be laid from the street into the house. Here is an overview of the basic process.
Pre-Installation
Before installation day, an AT&T technician will come to your home to determine where the fiber line can come into the house. They must be able to attach it to the outside wall near where the current telephone and cable lines come in. In case you are getting fiber for the first time in a new project development, there could already be conduits in place through which the fiber optic cable will be pulled.
The technician will also assess the electrical situation in your home to ensure there’s a grounded three-prong outlet where the AT&T gateway/WiFi router is to be placed indoors. This outlet supplies low-voltage power to the router from where it draws its power for operation.
Burying and Running the Fiber Line
During installation, the AT&T construction crew comes to your home to dig and lay the fiber optic cable. First, they start by making a ditch from the street where the utility box is located to your home. The trench should be sufficient to accommodate the conduit that holds the fiber line.
The construction team will make a small hole in the wall of your home, pass the fiber line through the conduit, and then cover it up to ensure that no drafts can get in. This helps protect the line from weather elements, pests, and damage. The fiber line is the fiber itself and is very thin, just slightly thicker than fishing wire.
If the preferred entry point of the home already has a conduit running towards it, they can pull the fiber through the existing route into the home.
How to Connect and Install the Gateway/Router?
After passing the fiber line through your home, the AT&T internet technician connects the fiber line to an optical network terminal (ONT) inside your home. This small box translates the fiber optic light signals to ethernet that can connect to your gateway router.
Next, the technician connects an ethernet cable between the ONT box and the AT&T gateway/WiFi router. They establish where to place the gateway to provide WiFi coverage within the interior space of your home. Some of them are usually found in the closet, garage, or entertainment center.
This gateway plugs into the grounded three-prong electrical outlet to turn on your AT&T internet connection. The technicians will switch on the devices and run several checks to ensure that all the connectivity speeds are fine.
Tidying Up
After the installation, the construction team and technicians ensure that they clean up the debris by covering holes drilled into the home and closing up trenches or conduits outside. Fiber optic cable is now well connected from the Municipal access point on your street to the networking equipment in your house.
To receive service from the fiber line, data must be sent in pulses of light through the strands of glass fiber. The fiber strands are much finer than human hair they are about 125 microns in diameter – but they can carry a massive amount of information at a speed that is almost as fast as light.
That sums up the basic process technicians go through to bring AT&T fiber internet to your home. For more information concerning how to schedule for installation and get connected to super-fast fiber speeds in your area, please call an AT&T sales representative.
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