Hi, would like to ask about the manhole for the fiber cable entry at the back of my house.

I see inside the manhole (picture below), there's rope tied to a price of brick, which I believe it's for the purpose of pulling the fiber cable into the manhole.

Then from the manhole, I don't see any cable connected up to the fiber junction box located on the wall above the manhole (red circle in the 2nd picture below). May I know if it's the scope of Unifi/Maxis to also do this? Or it's supposed to be by the developer but they missed it out?

Also I don't see any rope that is put in here to pull up the cable from the manhole to the wall junction box. Will it be easy to do this in the future? or do I need to ask my contractor to get it ready? (do i need to hack the wall in this case?)

thanks



This post has been edited by lowyat101: Jan 11 2023, 12:26 AM

If not mistaken, the unifi guy will tie the new cable to the existing cable and then pull the existing cable from the junction box for the new cable connection.

This post has been edited by mini orchard: Jan 11 2023, 06:48 AM

Thanks for the reply. Ya I believe the rope inside is for the technician to pull in the cable from the port somewhere at the backlane. But I'm a bit worried on the part from the manhole to the wall juction box above it, as there's no pre-installed rope to pull this cable. But since the length is not so long (I think around 2m - 3m), maybe they can use the normal cable puller to get this done?

You can check by opening the junction box. Ask someone to pull the cable slightly and you observe at the manhole. If the cable moved, then is meant to pull the new cable after joining old and new. Once the new cable is at the junction box, the old cable will be thrown away.

At the manhole from the green distribution box, the unifi guy will lay the cable either using surface conduit or conceal inside the concrete road. It will then joint existing cable and pull to the junction box to have a complete line.

This post has been edited by mini orchard: Jan 11 2023, 10:03 AM

Thanks I think I get what you meant.

But for my case, I see that the rope (red line) is heading to outside instead which I believe the incoming cable will run through an underground conduit.

My concern is more on the connection between the manhole to the wall junction box (orange dotted line), where I don't see any pre-layed rope to pull it. So would like to know if it's common to be like this and let the installer to pull the cable later? Or the developer is supposed to also put a rope along the orange dotted line?

The reason it because I'm going to tile up the wall, so wanna know if any hacking is needed to install the orange line. Else it will be a problem after the wall tiles are up.

Thanks again.

You cannot cover the manhole permanently, otherwise if any problem that the cable gets tangled, you cant access it.

Any manhole cannot be covered permanently, be it iwk or telephone or ceiling. It there for easy access to do troubleshooting.

For the junction box to the manhole, ask your contractor to insert a rope or a normal electrical wire as standby, if you are worried.

This post has been edited by mini orchard: Jan 11 2023, 10:28 AM

Ya I think that's the best way to do it. Will put a small manhole, say around 1x1' although I don't prefer it as it will be inside the kitchen.

Thanks