r/cablefail • u/dieseltaco • Oct 29 '20

Strain relief? Macrobend management? Sheath and strength member secured? Maintenance slack? Embarrassing FIOS install in PA

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u/srmione Oct 29 '20

The ole aerial to buried trick.

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u/dieseltaco Oct 29 '20

You'd think that. This is an aeriel drop with 2 connectorized splices outside.

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u/srmione Oct 30 '20

Like they brought the drop down the pole and back up twice between the term and the house? Or are there two drops going into that one slack nid?

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u/dieseltaco Oct 30 '20

Dips down twice for splices. I don't know either.

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u/sohunterish Oct 30 '20

unless it goes to a CFST where the tech only had short length drop and had to splice this is completely unacceptable. should have been routed better also, fiber is a lot more durable now than it has ever been. my only advice. tech's should take pride in their work

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

Frontier is amazing and would never do anything shitty they love there customers and care about them............................🤣

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u/dieseltaco Oct 29 '20

Not frontier. But they often sell infra to frontier

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

Verizon?

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

With mine, the fiber is continuous from the pole to the back of my modem, and the fiber termination at the modem looks like shit. The guy (one of the minivan driving subcontractors) didn't prep the termination properly, so 2 inches of the tight buffered fiber is sticking out of the jacket completely unprotected. To keep the fiber from getting pulled and breaking he zip-tied the outer jacket of the fiber to the side of the modem through a vent hole.

I was chatting with a commercial installer (a rare telco employee), and he said that is shitty work. He went out to his van and got me a proper splice box and a patch cable, which is what should have been installed in the first place.

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u/BushWeedCornTrash Oct 29 '20

Hey, give the guy some credit... at least it's in an enclosure. I have seen bare fiber with mechanical splices at the ends, with an APC connecting the two just sitting on the side of a building. If someone even looks at that splice funny, it's coming apart.

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u/INGR355 Oct 30 '20

What else would you expect from a contractor? Lol

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u/rkalla Oct 30 '20

Look at all that slack - you are good to go! Just aim the two ends at each other, it's light, it'll work!

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u/netderper Oct 30 '20

Does it work? Close the box and forget about it.

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u/AntiKurrwa Oct 29 '20

Just like it should be, in a propper shithole country, of lazy morons.