I was hoping someone could help me with avoiding drilling holes to bring fiber into the house. They recently installed fiber to the outdoor box so I signed up. The technician came today and said the only way to get fiber was to drill a hole to run fiber cable into the house, where equipment would go. Two reasons I don't want to do this. My house is new and I don't want to drill a hole through the wall. Also, the room it would go into is not where I want to have the equipment anyway.
From the box outside to my furnace room I have Cat5 and I was hoping I could one way or another, use that existing cat5. I've been trying to understand all the equipment and I'm not sure what would work, but my best thought is that I try to either:
Get the installer to come back and put the SFP module in the telus box (would it fit?) and then I can maybe use a media converter to go from SFP to Ethernet? Hopefully using PoE to power it and I could plug this directly into my own switch/router
or
Use media converters to go from fiber to Ethernet and then back to fiber. Then install whatever required equipment in the house?
Does anyone know if either of these will work? I'm willing to spend some money instead of drilling through the wall, and I'm okay with taking the small risk of putting equipment meant for indoors in the telus box outside and taking the risk. Or if necessary I can put a more weather sealed outdoor box. There is a outdoor outlet very close to the telus box.
The equipment I have currently is:
Unifi Security Gateway 3P
Unifi Switch 8
Unifi AP-AC-Pro
I appreciate any ideas or help.
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