Residential fibre cable install

DrJohnZoidberg

DrJohnZoidberg

Honorary Master
Joined
Jul 24, 2006
Messages
28,046
Reaction score
7,521
Location
Table View
Can anyone recommend someone in Cape Town that can pull a ~50m fibre run inside some existing conduit and terminate both ends for me?

Anyone done something similar? I basically want to use it to connect two parts of the house up and not have to run cable through the house.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
Can anyone recommend someone in Cape Town that can pull a ~50m fibre run inside some existing conduit and terminate both ends for me?

Anyone done something similar? I basically want to use it to connect two parts of the house up and not have to run cable through the house.
Click to expand...
I've seen on Gumtree and Facebook market place of guys offering fire termination services. Not sure of their quality of work though.

PM me, I do also have the guys numbers who installed fibre by me. I'm sure they would be willing to do a private job. They are usually contracted firms to vuma and openserve.

Any reason why you want to run a fibre cable to connect the two parts of the house and not ethernet cable? Which you can do yourself with rj45 Jack's and crimping tool.
 
If there is already a conduit, you could even buy premade lengths at the likes of scoop and such. Just buy a cheap 60m fish tape if there is nothing in the conduit to pull it. If there's an old cable, great use that.
 
nad_isa said:
I've seen on Gumtree and Facebook market place of guys offering fire termination services. Not sure of their quality of work though.

PM me, I do also have the guys numbers who installed fibre by me. I'm sure they would be willing to do a private job. They are usually contracted firms to vuma and openserve.
Click to expand...

Thanks, I've contacted a local place that does satellite and other cable installs, they're going to come out and give me quote so I'll see what that looks like first.

nad_isa said:
Any reason why you want to run a fibre cable to connect the two parts of the house and not ethernet cable? Which you can do yourself with rj45 Jack's and crimping tool.
Click to expand...

I want to run one cable and not have to worry about replacing it anytime soon. I want a 10Gbps link and cat6 tops out at around 55m which I'll probably exceed.
 
gertvanjoe said:
If there is already a conduit, you could even buy premade lengths at the likes of scoop and such. Just buy a cheap 60m fish tape if there is nothing in the conduit to pull it. If there's an old cable, great use that.
Click to expand...
I just don't have the time, I've got a thousand other things I need to do at the house and this is something I can just get somebody in for.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
Thanks, I've contacted a local place that does satellite and other cable installs, they're going to come out and give me quote so I'll see what that looks like first.



I want to run one cable and not have to worry about replacing it anytime soon. I want a 10Gbps link and cat6 tops out at around 55m which I'll probably exceed.
Click to expand...
:oops: you need a 10gbps link in your house, damn. but then yes shop around..
 
I can look up the details of the guys that did our install back in 2018.
Connected our admin offices with the farm's creche.
 
nad_isa said:
:oops: you need a 10gbps link in your house, damn. but then yes shop around..
Click to expand...
10Gbps isn't super exotic or anything these days and a lot more affordable than it used to be.

The guys I contacted actually came out about an hour ago to inspect the site for the quote, should hopefully know soon how much it'll cost.
 
Buy the pre-made fiber cables and then have them pulled through conduit. Contrary to what people say, they are actually quite tough. Have personally done this at the in laws place.
 
Hooked up everything this weekend, and working well except for the fact that the installers crossed over the connectors so the left end of the duplex connector terminates on the right side at the other end :laugh: Having them come in and fix this, but besides that it works.

Also the UltraLAN SFP modules (from Uniterm) work nicely with Unifi gear if anyone is interested. Just have to upgrade the one switch now at some point so I can run the 10Gbit SFP+ between the points.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
Hooked up everything this weekend, and working well except for the fact that the installers crossed over the connectors so the left end of the duplex connector terminates on the right side at the other end Having them come in and fix this, but besides that it works.

Also the UltraLAN SFP modules (from Uniterm) work nicely with Unifi gear if anyone is interested. Just have to upgrade the one switch now at some point so I can run the 10Gbit SFP+ between the points.
Click to expand...
What was the final pricing?
 
RonSwanson said:
Can you give a split of Labour vs Parts? And who supplied the parts? And general location?
Click to expand...
I don't know the split, they installed and supplied everything, however the parts aren't terribly expensive so it's mostly labour.

This is in Table View - https://horizonsat.co.za/

I don't know if I'd use them again for fibre work, it doesn't seem like something they're terribly comfortable with (as I suspect it's probably not something they do often). I would however need to find somebody else reliable in the area - at least even though they crossed over the two fibres they came in quickly to rectify it (which was simply just swapping the connectors over).

I'd be open to suggestions on other companies to use if I need to do work in the future.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X