After a couple decades of complaining about being one of only two streets in town not connected to the Comcast plant we have finally been granted relief with the help of the FCC.
The COVID push to student remote learning and home workers brought focus to our situation of being 10 houses, surrounded by public conservation forests, at the dead-end of a road 2 miles from the last connected house on the established Comcast plant. Our U.S. Congresswoman was persuaded to take up our cause and working with a Comcast VP she was able to secure FCC rural broadband development funds to extend the plant to ours and a second similar street at no infrastructure cost to the customers.
The announcement of the deal was October 2020 but work actually only began about three weeks ago. Comcast was said to be ready to go back in February but was waiting for Verizon to move their telephone lines on the utility poles to make room for Comcast. Verizon ended up dropping their lines about 18 inches at the end of April.
Comcast’s arial contractor has run what I believe to be a fiber cable out our road coming from the town. Coming out it is just a wire rope and the suspended fiber because It is about two miles of nothing but forest until you get to the first of 10 houses each then with about 160ft of frontage and a utility pole at the street for each.
They have run the fiber right past my house and down to the end of the road where they then have doubled back up the road with what I believe is a hard line coax.
However this is all just guess work on my part and any help identifying these components would be appreciated.
(Wire rope with just the fiber hanging as it travels down the forest road)
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(As it travels through the forest there are occasional loops like this. What is the purpose, is this a spot where a splice needs to happen maybe??)
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(Fiber runs passed my house about 1000ft down to the end of the street where they have installed this and the hardline doubles back toward my house. Is this a fiber optic node? Or what exactly is it and the antenna looking structure??)
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(Same structure at a different angle)
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(The fat hardline doubles back up the road that 1000ft past the narrow fiber seen on the pully. At the house next to mine there is this structure, is it a signal amplifier??
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(Close up of the same structure)
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(This is the pole at my house, you can see the spot where the Verizon line, now at the bottom, was moved down from.)
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(This is a closeup at my pole of what I believe is the coaxial tap for our house, is that correct??)
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As I say this is all just educated guesses and any insight from you folks about the service being installed based on this equipment would be very interesting to me.... Thanks.
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