Fiber on my pavement

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Evonain

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Hi Guys

Wondering if someone can help me with infomation on fiber. Last year telkom dug up my pavement and laid down a fiber line to the school down the road. They used a DFA hub on the corner of my street. I tried to find out if i could link up to the the fiber as it was right on my pavement but no one could really help so I left it. Now last month internet solutions came and dug up my pavement again to run their own fiber to the same school. I asked the guys digging if i could get onto the fiber, he said he could easily connect me to the fiber line and run it to my house, but he doesnt know how i would get internet (neither do I). I called internet solutions but they only do business fiber. Would telkom be able to help me out since the line is right outside my gate, or is FTTH completely different to FTTB?
 
If the guy offered to connect your house to the fiber then do that NOW and ask questions later.
 
Evonain said:
Hi Guys

Wondering if someone can help me with infomation on fiber. Last year telkom dug up my pavement and laid down a fiber line to the school down the road. They used a DFA hub on the corner of my street. I tried to find out if i could link up to the the fiber as it was right on my pavement but no one could really help so I left it. Now last month internet solutions came and dug up my pavement again to run their own fiber to the same school. I asked the guys digging if i could get onto the fiber, he said he could easily connect me to the fiber line and run it to my house, but he doesnt know how i would get internet (neither do I). I called internet solutions but they only do business fiber. Would telkom be able to help me out since the line is right outside my gate, or is FTTH completely different to FTTB?
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If you can afford business packages, then do it. You will most likely sign onto a 24 month contract, so I'd first plan before doing anything.
 
You are not going to manage to do that yourself - unless you have lots of money and lots of technical expertise.

Unless there are providers offering FTTH in your area you are out of luck.
 
Well I don't plan on doing it myself, the guys who dig up the pavements said they could run a line to my house as they have the equipment and for really cheap. Not sure if I could maybe ask them to rather connect me to the Telkom line there as they do FTTH and then call out a Telkom tech to connect me up even though telkom doesnt have FTTH in my area, also not very sure if thats allowed?
 
Evonain said:
Well I don't plan on doing it myself, the guys who dig up the pavements said they could run a line to my house as they have the equipment and for really cheap. Not sure if I could maybe ask them to rather connect me to the Telkom line there as they do FTTH and then call out a Telkom tech to connect me up even though telkom doesnt have FTTH in my area, also not very sure if thats allowed?
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Not going to work.

There would need to be telkom equipment on that fibre.

You don't just hook up to the fibre and magically get internet - the fibre needs to be connected to a POP which then breaks out to the internet - and you will need to be provisioned for that access.

You will need to wait for FTTH providers to offer services in your area.
 
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