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My probable best location for the ONT is inside my barn\workshop. When I built it I put all of my utilities underground to the front of the barn and installed a dual 400\200\200 amp box with undreground runs to the location of the old main on the house where the phone box is also located, one conduit for power and the other for communications. I will still have copper phone lines to the phone box and phone distribution center in the attic and two runs of RG 6 to the house, one to the satellite splitter and the other to the computer where the cable modem used to be .

Are you saying you moved your power meter to the workshop or added another one to it? I guess the installer will do it if it is easier. I have underground conduit ran to my barn, but I have yet to use it.

I moved my power main to a 200/200a service at the barn\workshop and then a 200a underground circuit from the barn to the existing box at the house and a communication conduit to the phone box which is located just below the power panel.

I pulled a new underground phone cable from the pole to the house and a RG6 to the barn and two from the barn to the house. The RG6 is grounded at the conduit entrance in the barn and is disconnected at the top if the riser at the pole. The second RG6 connects to the satellite splitter at the house.

By my way of thinking the coax from the pole can be split at the ground point and it goes directly to the upstairs office where the cable modem was located. the second coax between the house and barn is connected to the satelite splitter. I have attic access to run coax to every room in the house and to the garage except to one corner of the family room and that can be worked around when I repair some drywall and paint the room since that room will get the surround sound speakers also.

The phones are copper and will be OK as far as I can tell.

Monday I finally had Fios Internet and phone installed, TV is not yet available in my neighborhood.

The crew came out and installed the fiber cable to my barn, they used the old RG6 coax that was the Cable internet feed to pull the cable through to the Barn. They disconnected it at the ground junction inside the barn and pulled it toward the street. It was an easy installation for them.

After they left I installed a 18" long setcion of 4 X 12" channel that was used for supports in the barn, for a mounting plate for the ONT. When the Installer came out he was concerned about the amount of extra fiber cable that they pulled ( about 100') and also mounting the ONT directly to the steel. While he was going back to the Verizon Yard to get an indoor ONT unit, I mounted a plywood panel to the metal channel to make it easier to mount the ONT.

When he returned we cut the Phone cable that came in from the pole in a conduit next to the fiber cable conduit and I installed a box and a conduit up to the mounting plate and he pulled the coax and the phone wires that go to the house in and made up the connections in the box and the ONT. Then he powered up the ONT and installed the Battery. The Excess Cable was wound in two coils and slipped down into the back of the mounting channel.

We tested the phone and when that worked, he came upstairs to the office and connected the Coax to the wall and installed the router while I removed the DSL box and the Linksys router.

When all was ready he pluged his stick into my computer running windows7 64 and it would not load. He moved to my wife's computer running Vista 32 bit and it loaded fine.

We were up and running in less than two hours and he said that it was the best pre installation he had ever seen, including new construction.

I removed all of the DSL gear and then the phones quit working. I called Verizon and they ran a test and told me my house wiring was bad. When I looked at the ONT the POT light was ON and so I removed the phone connection at the ONT and the light still did not go out.

When the installer came back he disconnected all house copper at the original phone box and tested it. then he went to the ONT and disconnected there and found that the ONT was bad. In ten minutes he had replaced the ONT, reconnected all wires and had it working again.

While my speeds seem to be great, I cannot test it on the windows 7 64 bit OS but the Vista 32 bit OS is much improved.

I am waiting for the FiOS TV to come to the neighborhood, but before it gets here I will pull in new Coax and get the panel installed for the splitter.

Best thing you can run for the internet is cat5 or cat6 and then put the modem in a central location.