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replacing uverse coax with fiber
ATT wants to schedule replacing my Uverse service currently coming in on phone lines and use fiber instead. My understanding is that fiber will run to the house to a box (modem?) and a separate cat5 cable has to run from that box to each TV location (in my case, 2 TV's), because they're no longer allowing existing coax to be used.
I prefer to run the cat5 myself, and have it in place when ATT comes to do the fiber.
Are there any special requirements I need to be aware of, such as maximum cable length or something else I might not know?
JefferMC
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4 years ago
If using Ethernet from the Gateway to the TV Receivers (replacing Coax), then it will be running either 100baseT or 1000baseT over the wiring depending on the capability of the wiring. Assuming that you'd want 1000baseT, then you should run full Cat5e or better. The only distance limit would then be the standard 1000baseT on Cat5e limit of 100m.
You can start using this new wiring as soon as you have it in place to test it out, pre-fiber conversion. That way you only have to move the Ethernet cables to the new Gateway (if you get one... you might keep using the old one).
BTW, if you run out of Ethernet ports on your Gateway for this, a Gigabit Ethernet switch (such as the Netgear GS105 or GS108) will do fine. Just don't put a (non-U-verse) Wireless Access Point on the same switch as AT&T IPTV equipment.
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baseballisback
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4 years ago
I must have some sort of weird hybrid setup.
I have fiber into my house, but I'm using coax from the gateway to the DVR. I have one computer wired to the gateway and everything else is wireless.
It works fine.
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JefferMC
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It's not that weird, but old. I initially had twisted pair to my gateway, but coax out to the TVs not in the same room with the Gateway. I ran Cat5e to the two rooms and replaced the coax feeds over time. I connected the last one when I got a gateway no longer capable of providing coax (BGW 210). AT&T no longer will install a home using coax at all.
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gr8sho
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4 years ago
Hello. ATT is responsible to provide service up to and including the gateway, and I wouldn't want to interfere with that process. The biggest problem I'd see here is the routing of the fiber itself as I suspect new installs would utilize the newer BGW320 box with integrated ONT, so I'd simply request the installer to follow the same wiring path from the NID to the gateway I have today.
Cheers
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JefferMC
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As gr8sho says, AT&T has the option of running fiber all the way to the Gateway location instead of to an ONT, and then Ethernet to the Gateway. If they want to run fiber to your Gateway, you won't have the option of locating the Gateway away from the end of the fiber.
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