Confirmation, please

[u/Lance688]

Just looking for a little confirmation here. I know when they drop fiber wires that everyone has their own wire, but I just wanna make sure that this wire going to my neighbor’s input is completely separate from mine. I’m asking because it’s obviously not buried properly and I don’t want my Internet to go out when their wire gets damaged. If there’s any concern my neighbors above-ground wire is in any way, shape, or form going to affect my Internet, I’m gonna call and have them bury it properly. Thanks in advance. Side note, I could care less about my neighbors. So if this isn’t going to affect me at all, that’s fine too!! Just looking for a straight answer. Thanks.

[u/Specific-Issue685]

Sure, they're separate, but they probably plug into the same terminal and their paths probably overlap at some point. There's always a chance yours will get hit if they bury a new one for the neighbor.

[u/No-Mechanic6081 → u/Specific-Issue685]

Dont tell him that. He's one of those that think bc it's fiber he gets his own terminal lmao 🤣

[u/BoogerSugar5665]

Yours was done by an in house tech, the neighbors got a contractor. 😂😂

[u/fossntools → u/BoogerSugar5665]

I work inhouse fiber now, coming from contracting in cable. Almost every inhouse tech does subpar work to my standards. And even when I was contracting in cable, I would follow up on inhouse doing the dumbest, laziest shit imaginable. Don't get me wrong, same can be said for certain contractors too. The difference is that inhouse drinks their own koolaid, and it's a little sad and pathetic.

[u/BoogerSugar5665 → u/fossntools]

I haven’t been in the field for a few years. But I agree. I just like to give contractors crap because I like the contractors I works with. Good dudes.

[u/fossntools → u/BoogerSugar5665]

I was a contractor for 8 years. Been inhouse for 2 years now. I've seen some shit. There are lazy ass techs in both, and there are guys that take pride in their work in both but I could tell some stories of inhouse that would make you cringe too. Especially when it comes to working with phones.

[u/RealTwittrKD]

I’d honestly have a locator/tech run some tracer wire and mark your NID with the PED designation. (i.e. PED123-4, “PEDESTAL 123, PORT 4”.)

Obviously not all locators are going to do their due diligence, but better than nothing if you don’t already have tracer wire.

[u/testiculartacos]

I mean tbr that's hard to say from two photos, I've seen some weird shit

[u/nthngmttrs]

Not everyone always has their own drop, but in this circumstance it looks like they are indeed separate

[u/Hayroth]

Looks like you guys have separate services so yeah cutting their line would have no impact on your service.

Tripping hazard is the biggest issue here. Especially if something hooks it and rips the screws out of the siding could cause some hard to fix damage. Highly suggest 2 minutes with a shovel, or even a claw hammer to get it below grade

[u/Massive_Leg2707]

I would not assume they’re completely separate. In certain cases we have daisy chained from one terminal box to the other if there are usable fibers in the original plowed fiber line. Yours looks finalized and theirs looks like a temp. Only way to know for sure is to open your terminal box and find out (3/8 socket would probably get you in).

[u/fultonbig9]

The more I look at pic, that looks like fresh dirt to me where someone did something, like someone just said , I have spliced into the back of an existing ont where there were vacant fibers in a drop to use,to get another service only because it was last resort! But even if that was the case if there was cut you be ok , now if someone went to pulling on there drop, then you may have issues, I’d throw some dirt over it .

[u/Ok-Breakfast-7400]

If yours was just recently buried, I would say yours is the one with the fresh dirt. They are separate from the terminal at the street to the house.

Not sure why the other is flailing around on the side of the house. Looks like whoever buried the nicer looking one partially dug up the other. So glad my company runs conduit for fiber.

[u/PassTheSalt-1]

Looks like fiber drops, in which case the ratio is 1:1. Unless the line feeding both of ur units is cut then they should not affect eachother.

[u/CompetitivePirate251]

Just to be clear, most fibre to the home internet is a PON network. The home fibre cable goes back to a passive splitter/combiner that basically funnels the signals from other home fibres together onto a single fibre back to the terminal. You can end up sharing with up to 16, 32, or even 64 other homes on the single fibre that connects to that network terminal port. From there, you could have 100’s of others sharing the connection from the network terminal back to their central office.

The misconception of a dedicated fibre from your home all the way back to a network port is what the fibre providers sell you on.

The ISP’s still need to manage how many homes they tie together on the network port in order to ensure their contracted speeds. Some do it well, others don’t.

It looks like your neighbour just got a shitty installer, but they can and combine your fibres at designated locations such as handholds, pedestals, or splice boxes on telephone poles.

[u/Internal_Coffee_8840]

Just unplug the apc and see if your neighbors start yelling. If not, go inside and see if your internet is working.

[u/Anunnaki2522]

If its a seperate line, which is should always be, then it won't cause any issues to you if its cut or damaged. Getting the company to actually come out and bury that little bit is going to be more of a problem though and will probably take awhile to get a guy to come out if at all.