How is AT&T fiber connected to your house?
Connecting a new house to AT&T Internet fiber is a multi-step process that requires coordination between AT&T and the homeowner around permitting, cabling, and equipment. This is how the process normally unfolds from start to finish.
1. Get fiber service and accept all the requirements stated by the fiber internet service provider. You need to make a call to AT&T and ask them to connect fiber optic Internet service to your address. You will speak to an AT&T specialist who will confirm if your neighborhood is serviceable and other issues such as the plans available as well as the prices will be discussed with you. If you decide to proceed you’ll commit yourself to a two-year service agreement.
2. They should apply for construction and permits to continue with the construction process. Once you sign up, AT&T will get to work on the paperwork needed for legal construction permits and approvals from your city or country to lay new cables and install new lines. This consists of submissions of requests, drawings, notification, and waiting for permits as well as consent.
3. Facilities preparation. Once permits are obtained, AT&T will stage the physical plant required to connect the fiber line to your home. This may involve the placement of a splice box or terminal box at another utility pole or an underground duct if the main fiber cable is to be split and re-routed.
4. Cabling from terminal to house is another method which is used to convey the electrical energy to the house from the generating station. Subsequently, a direct fiber optic line will be laid from the splice point or terminal box closest to your home to an outside wall. This normally entails the making of a relatively narrow trench on the ground surface and the subsequent installation of conduits to cover the delicate fiber wires that are as thin as hair. In the case of aerial cables poles and lines shall be put in place to fill the gap.
5. Install an external box. An AT&T technician will have to visit your house where you want to have a gray fiber junction box with the AT&T logo installed. It should be shielded from accidents or weather so that the losses incurred are kept to a minimum. Here the fiber line from step #4 is connected.
6. Drill entry hole. The fiber will be drawn into your home through a hole the technician makes in your wall with a drill. This hole is meant to enable the hair-thin cable to pass through from the outdoor box to the interior space available. There are efforts made by installers to ensure that they neat up the areas surrounding holes after making the cuts.
7. Connect fiber to ONT/Gateway. The fiber strand from the outside is terminated to an ONT wall plate with ports or ONT/Gateway unit. This device receives the light signals that travel through the fiber line and translates them into ethernet and electrical signals which are used to extend wifi and for other devices.
8. Set up equipment. Your connected AT&T equipment such as routers and extenders shall be connected and switched on to start broadcasting your wifi networks. It is also possible to have connections that are specifically dedicated to home security and automation equipment in the AT&T Smart Home connections.
9. Perform tests. To ensure you get the best of its fiber installation, AT&T is going to push data through your new fiber and run some speed tests. This confirms that all linkages are secure and provide the anticipated speed package stated in the plan, which ranges from 1 Gigabit per second for most AT&T Fiber consumers.
10. Fiber is live. Last but not least, you will receive a message congratulating you that your AT&T fiber connection is now activated. You are all set for testing and once done you can have up to 100% internet speeds through our fiber optic connection at AT&T with your new start-of-the-art connection.
From the time of acquiring a permit to the time of installation, it can take approximately 30 days or more. However, once established, the AT&T fiber Internet provides high speed that is expected to cater to the increasing needs over a fiber network that is capable of accommodating future traffic needs. For further information on how to get fiber services right at your doorway please contact an AT&T representative.
Upgrade to faster, more reliable AT&T Fiber Internet today! Call us at +1 844-905-5002 and get connected with speeds that keep you ahead.
