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You can buy some very strong fiber. My home fiber internet setup was done with some seriously good stuff. The installer left an unneeded chunk and you can't cut

You can buy some very strong fiber. My home fiber internet setup was done with some seriously good stuff. The installer left an unneeded chunk and you can't cut that with scissors without destroying them. It's some sort of outdoor rated, Kevlar reinforced thing. For LC connectors, the two cables are held with a plastic clip, you can remove that to make it fit through smaller holes. After that it's much thinner and nicer to work with than Cat7.

jvanderbot 2y ago
Our ISP installed fiber too late in the year to bury the cable, so it just laid on the ground for 7 months until thaw, right across our walkway and yard. They weren't even worried about it getting damaged.
- jermaustin1 2y ago
  And my ISP had to replace mine multiple times due to lawn maintenance guys running it over, neighbors (where the line was pulled from) cutting it, etc. I don't think I'll ever do a fiber install again. If it has already been run to the house, great, but otherwise, I'd rather not.
- edm0nd 2y ago
  Must not have any dogs. We had fiber installed at our house and our derpy dog chewed up the line twice before they were able to bury it. Was a good time indeed and thankfully AT&T didn't charge us anything to come out and fix it each time. They only ended up burying it a few inches deep, i was surprised and thought it would be deeper. What surprised me the most is one of the techs telling me that ants are one of the most common threats to fiber lines outside of them accidently being severed by construction crews digging.
aaronax 2y ago
The most common last-mile fiber assembly I have seen in use is called flat-drop. It is flat, and it is optimized for use on the drop to the customer premises. There are two (fiberglass?) rods and between them runs a loose tube fiber bundle with typically 6 fibers in it. Good picture here: https://www.novalight.com/Drop-Cable-Fiber-Optic-Flat-Toneable-6-Count-006EB1-14101A20.aspx https://www.novalight.com/Drop-Cable-Fiber-Optic-Flat-Toneab... The fiberglass rods provide excellent crush and cut resistance, as well as bend radius control.
EvanAnderson 2y ago
> For LC connectors, the two cables are held with a plastic clip... Be careful doing that. There are LC connectors that are not capable of being split. (I know this because I attempted to split one of this type and damaged a fiber assembly at.) The vast majority of LC connectors I've worked with can be split but some cannot.

jvanderbot 2y ago

Our ISP installed fiber too late in the year to bury the cable, so it just laid on the ground for 7 months until thaw, right across our walkway and yard. They weren't even worried about it getting damaged.

jermaustin1 2y ago
And my ISP had to replace mine multiple times due to lawn maintenance guys running it over, neighbors (where the line was pulled from) cutting it, etc. I don't think I'll ever do a fiber install again. If it has already been run to the house, great, but otherwise, I'd rather not.
edm0nd 2y ago
Must not have any dogs. We had fiber installed at our house and our derpy dog chewed up the line twice before they were able to bury it. Was a good time indeed and thankfully AT&T didn't charge us anything to come out and fix it each time. They only ended up burying it a few inches deep, i was surprised and thought it would be deeper. What surprised me the most is one of the techs telling me that ants are one of the most common threats to fiber lines outside of them accidently being severed by construction crews digging.

aaronax 2y ago

The most common last-mile fiber assembly I have seen in use is called flat-drop. It is flat, and it is optimized for use on the drop to the customer premises. There are two (fiberglass?) rods and between them runs a loose tube fiber bundle with typically 6 fibers in it. Good picture here: https://www.novalight.com/Drop-Cable-Fiber-Optic-Flat-Toneable-6-Count-006EB1-14101A20.aspx https://www.novalight.com/Drop-Cable-Fiber-Optic-Flat-Toneab... The fiberglass rods provide excellent crush and cut resistance, as well as bend radius control.

EvanAnderson 2y ago

> For LC connectors, the two cables are held with a plastic clip... Be careful doing that. There are LC connectors that are not capable of being split. (I know this because I attempted to split one of this type and damaged a fiber assembly at.) The vast majority of LC connectors I've worked with can be split but some cannot.