Vumatel CPE installtion, what to expect?

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I am getting my Vumatel CPE installed on Monday, I still cant decide where the CPE must go as the area to my house from the fiber box on boundary wall is mostly paved..

Is there any limitations on how the fiber cable can be installed into my home? Any recommendations/ideas would be welcome thanks!
 
Perrie said:
I am getting my Vumatel CPE installed on Monday, I still cant decide where the CPE must go as the area to my house from the fiber box on boundary wall is mostly paved..

Is there any limitations on how the fiber cable can be installed into my home? Any recommendations/ideas would be welcome thanks!
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If you have an unpaved path from your boundary to your house at some point it may be worth pursuing that. Once it's at your house it can go up in the ceiling so you can really put the CPE switch anywhere.
 
My issue at the moment is my domestic quarter is between the boundary wall and my house so my thinking is to run the line around the domestic quarter along the boundary wall by I don't know if there are limitations of the fiber cable that it cant be bent at 90 degrees for example?

Also don't know if the installation will include proper conduit piping to protect the cable as the entire area is paved so the cable will be exposed above ground.
 
Perrie said:
My issue at the moment is my domestic quarter is between the boundary wall and my house so my thinking is to run the line around the domestic quarter along the boundary wall by I don't know if there are limitations of the fiber cable that it cant be bent at 90 degrees for example?

Also don't know if the installation will include proper conduit piping to protect the cable as the entire area is paved so the cable will be exposed above ground.
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Yes they will run conduits. The cable can bend too.
 
Pho3nix said:
How far can the cable go?
Should be getting it installed within the next month or so and want to place the router where the adsl one is.
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They have different lengths of cable available. Not sure what the longest they carry is, mine was about 20m
 
The fibre can be up to 150m. I've been involved in hundreds of Vuma installs. PM me if you want more info.
 
right got my line this morning, Vumatel just needs to "patch" it on their side to activate it first.

My next step then will obviously be to select my ISP by plugging in my laptop to the cpe, my question is how does the authentication work on the vumatel network? I read they use the mac address of your router or something in this manner?

What happens if I want to change my router in the future? :confused:
 
Perrie said:
right got my line this morning, Vumatel just needs to "patch" it on their side to activate it first.

My next step then will obviously be to select my ISP by plugging in my laptop to the cpe, my question is how does the authentication work on the vumatel network? I read they use the mac address of your router or something in this manner?

What happens if I want to change my router in the future? :confused:
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Yes authentication is by mac address. There are no users/passwords.
To change router, you need to log a call with your ISP.
I suggest you don't plug your laptop in. Plug your router in. Otherwise you're going to need to log a ticket to get it changed.
 
Most routers also have the ability to clone/spoof a MAC address, so if you swap it out then change the MAC address of the WAN port.
 
In my house, the Vumatel CPE is at the other side of the house compared to the fiber box.

They have taken it along the wall before going inside the roof and coming down along the outside wall, drilling through the wall and then inside to the CPE which is mounted in the wall.

They've done a very clean job and installed it in 4h.
 
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