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|  Apartment Install
This is a professional install I just did. (I mean professional in the fact that the cust paid for it, and not a reflection of my work, although I think I did a pretty good job) The terminal is a common type on apartments that were built within the last 10-12 years. This terminal is actually a third party vendor. They own the cable within the apartment complex. Inside you can see the binding posts. Fortunately they marked the correct binding post position on the door for me. If the location wasn't posted or tagged on the IW I would have had to tone the pair from inside the apartment. |
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kmac1
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| Apartment Install part2
[img]LPf-200f.jpg[/img
Sorry for the delay on the rest of this install. I busy doing some other work and couldn't finish.
Ok, next picture is the Sunrise test set I used to verify sync. It gives me line measurements as well as check for errors and other conditions. This model doesn't have the built-in TDR, but it does have the load detector. I had another picture of the actual screen, but due to proprietary info issues I'm not going to be able to show you. However I will say that this was a Pronto RT line and it was smoking hot!
After identifying my customers IW I proceded to install a filter outside in the terminal. I chose a LPF-200f by Antec. This filter is actually used behind flush mount jacks, but since it has no exposed metal, it's a good choice in outside situations like this. |
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Re: Apartment Install
After identifying my customers line and checking sync I began installing the LPF-200f onto my customers IW. The IW was a 6-pair with 2 lines being used by dial-tone. I chose the red/blue pair(pair 6) to use as my unfiltered line. I took the existing IW(white/blue) off and attached a new piece of cat-5 rated wiring. We use a violet/blue colored wire to signify that it's a DSL line so that other techs who come along will know to leave it alone. Cat-3 wiring is all you need, but since it only comes cat-5 that's what gets used. Using my new piece of wiring and the pair I'm using for my DSL, I splice them to the filter on the red/green wires. I then splice the existing IW to the red/green with white tracers. This is shown on the outside of the filter. Dial-tone comes in red/green, out red/green/white. (Hint: Try not to cut off any wire than you have to as you might later have to re-wire and you'll need the slack)
After making my splices I carefully tucked the filter into the bottom where hopefully it will remained undisturbed. |
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Apartment Install part 4
I had the customer show me where he wanted the DSL line to go. He took me to his desk where an existing dual jack was. After opening the jack, I found it was ony fed by a 4 pair IW. Since both outlets were in use I planned on adding a seperate jack on top of the flush mount. I used the brown/white pair(pair 4) and used a tone to be able to locate it at the customers dmarc. |
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Apartment Install part 6
After locating my unfiltered dial-tone and the pair going to the jack I placed a short jumper on the IWs. This effectively sent the DSL to only that one location. After this I closed the dmarc and went back to my jack.
I took the tone off and made sure I had sync on the pair. YES! I then closed the jack back up keeping the pair for DSL hanging out. |
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Next up came placing the DSL jack. I used a external jack with a 3M double-sided mastic for attaching to the wall. There should be something like this at any electronics store. I took the pair with DSl and attached it to the green/red posts on the jack. I checked for dial-tone before I coiled up the wire and put the cover on.
All that was left to do was put the cord from the modem into the new jack and turn on the modem. As you can see it's a Westell 516 and it immediately synced up. I double-checked the computer connection (the customer already had a NIC card for his laptop) and made sure the software had been loaded correctly. It took a couple of minutes to register and the customer was surfing on his new DSL line.
This was a pretty easy install as far as this goes. I've had some that were major cluster!#@!@. Word of warning, if you have multiple IWs and are having trouble telling which one is which, consider running a new dedicated IW. This will end up saving you a lot of headache later.
I'd like to say thanks to Mr. John D. for letting me take these pictures and post them here. I'll try to get a house install done soon. |
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kmac1
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Sorry it took me awhile to finish this up. I'm trying to get a series on a residential install. |
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