any wiring master know how to lay wiring to ready 1st as my house going reno soon... thanks in advance 1st..

What do you mean by lay the wiring? The fibre optic cable coming into the house or your local network within your house?

Unifi is on fiber. So you won't be able to lay the fiber now.

Find out where the Unifi / phone grid is, usually is behind the house.

Prepare an empty conduit from rear balcony all the way to your desire location. Put a wire/cable puller inside the conduit. Try not to have too many junction so the cable puller is easier to be pull.

This is how the cable puller look like.
http://wiretie.org/html_products/Fish-tape...lid-3mm-35.html

You need to supply the cable puller to your wireman, ask him put it inside. When all conceal is done, try pull say few feet of the puller see if it got stuck or smooth. Also make sure the outdoor conduit is facing downward, so rain water not flow in / cover.


This is how i did when i do my house wiring. My termination is from laundry area to my "server room".

Yes, i did same thing as weikee, except my cable puller= normal green wire only...i din know there's such cable puller

i prepare the normal phone wire.... now Unifi need diff wiring.. ahdui~

u can ask ur technician to allow conduits running concealed in ur wall to ur prefer points. once completed reno, u can ask telekom to wire to the said conduits. cheap and easy.

My unifi installation only take 1 hour, because i prepare everything for them. They only drill one hole outside for the holder. And wire expose from laundry area until the small conduit box.

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Added on November 14, 2011, 3:57 pmGreen wire is the earth wires loh. Can recycle and use for wiring. The cable puller is about RM 20 for 30 feet.


This post has been edited by weikee: Nov 14 2011, 03:57 PM

Adui~... My house, network cable design all had been centralize to a store room as well as telephone cable, when my house is on the build. The network cable plan was before unify product is kick in. Now only know they direct lay a fiber optic come into the house.

Now since my house now going to renovate again, What I plan now is lay another network cable to kitchen from centralize network area(since the fiber box is come from behind of my house). And my fiber terminate at there with the modem.

Not sure this idea will work or not.

Than you need minimal 2 LAN cable in your kitchen. One for the Internet, another for IPTV. If you plan to do this way, your Fiber BTU will be in kitchen, and in need power socket.

You can ask for the unifi technician to come to your house during your reno to help you to lay the cables up front. Fiber Cables can also be conceal if you want.

This have to pay extra, already state in T&C, they will not install when house under renovation.

got idea how much they charge for this conceal fiber???

RM15 psf

If i pre conceal an empty conduit, i spend less than 30 buck only on cable puller, still can use cable puller for other things and my wireman only charge few the conduit price, which is less than 20 buck.

And Unifi come with free installation. Still is much cheaper.

This post has been edited by weikee: Nov 14 2011, 11:39 PM

issit possible to lay unifi fibre using existing telephone line ie using same concept as cable puller - pull out phone cable and replace it with unifi fibre ?

Unless is in the conduit. If its cement on you can't. Also phone line come with rubber skin, which make pulling very hard. The cable puller are smooth which make pulling much easier.

the cable plus its protector is rm15 per meter. if u conseal it, it will be rm45.8 per meter. I jz meet the tm unifi contractor.

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Added on November 15, 2011, 12:17 amactualy u can buy the fiber optic urself and ask ur electrician to help u pull and conceal it...but personaly i feel the fiber optic is a quite sensitive material...jz wory will hv probrlem only...
free fr unifi is they will pull the fiber optic from the station at back of ur house into the small box in ur house only....

This post has been edited by Ahwei81: Nov 15 2011, 12:17 AM

In theory it is possible .. but you should know that not all conduit is 100 % through ..... meaning there could be blockage or halfway through the cable the conduit is separated and not joined in a proper way. By the way, please allow minimum bending radius of 45 degree or as much as possible when you conceal the conduit for the fiber optic cables. This will enable the telekom contractor to pull the cable easily without causing damage to the cable.

You need to know the fiber mode is running on, it have two type: multi mode, or or Single mode. Both use difference fiber core. And also there is difference specification for each mode. If you need this, check existing house owner with Unifi what are the cable spec (usually printed on the cable)

why you want to buy yourselve while TM is free once you apply it? If you get the wrong code or something wrong on the cables, the finger poiting will occurs.

Just get the pipe done and TM folk could put the cables into your decide location will be good. than how and where you want to distribute further will we on your own (TV box / Phone line...etc)

Try avoid "L" corner if possiable, as those are difficult area for cable to turn.