So Far…

The Verizon installer is here.  He was baffled as to how to wire the ethernet into the house.  Basically the phone service is on the outside of the house, near the front on the driveway side.  Ethernet has to come from there to the opposite corner of the house, where my office is.

His solution, after looking in the cellar, is to do exactly the same thing the cable TV people did when they wired our apartment.  That goes through the cellar, up the outside, and in through the baseboard in the office, where it hits a splitter and has a cable for the office and one going through the wall to Sadie’s room.  Without looking I don’t remember if it goes from there into the living room, or if the living room has its own wire from outside.

So he got started.  That’ll take a while.  He has to string fiber from the pole to the house.  I wonder if they string extra over for when the other apartments someday get fiber.  That’d make sense.  Anyway, it’ll get a junction box and so forth.  He’ll have to hook on into the phones and have the service switched over, and wire the ethernet.  My question now is, knowing the thing is powered and they supply a UPS, where will that plug in.  I was assuming the junction box would be in our apartment.  Guess I’ll find out.

Speaking of the other apartments, the people upstairs moved yesterday.  I echo that guy’s sentiment, hoping we get someone good.  They were excellent neighbors, apart from the parking antics during the winter, and that was mainly just funny.  How could you not like a guy with a PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals sticker, and a couple of pro gun stickers, on his pickup.  And when they put out all their trash by the road yesterday, they put ours out too.  I added a couple bags later, but that was so nice.  I assumed I’d need to take out their final stuff, but it was conveniently a Thursday so they did it.  Sadly, there’s now a pile of trash on the lawn, apparently including heavy stuff like phone books, almost as if one of the trash pickup guys threw it on realizing what it was, or an animal tore it open and it spilled enthusiastically.  Oh well.

1. You will want to make sure and check the battery backup on a regular basis.  If that doesn’t work and your power goes out you will have no phones.  not that that matters much with most people having cell phones but still.

   Posted by Wayne  on  05/26  at  02:06 PM

2. The other thing to realize is that the UPS will power the entire ONT for a period of time (usually 30 minutes), then start shutting down the video and data services in order to preserve phone service in order ot extend the battery life.

   Posted by DCE  on  05/29  at  10:16 AM

3. Mine seems to last about 5 minutes for data.  I haven’t had an outage since getting video, so I don’t know how long that would last (and frankly, my TV isn’t on UPS anyway...).

   They tell me the UPS should power the phone service for at least 8 hours (dial tone) and possibly longer than that without dial tone.

   The UPS system does its own self-test at least once per week and it has a handy visual indicator to let you know if the battery has gone bad.

   Posted by Aubrey Turner  on  05/30  at  04:01 PM

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