Having a T-1 line installed. Dmarc extension question.

brandonb

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Hi all,

I'm working with a company to get a T-1 line installed to my property. On their service form they said they do not do a dmarc extension to a residential property. So my question is what is needed for that? I know they will wire it to the side of my house to the MPOE (minimum point of entry), and I'll have a CPE/Router on the inside. Do all I need to do is run a T-1 Crossover cable (like a cat 5 cable) from the MPOE to the CPE, or is there more to it?
 

imagoon

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It depends on the demarc. Once you are to the house, normally cat5e cables is good enough to get to the router. You shouldn't need a T-1 crossover as that is used to connect CPE to CPE. The connection coming in should be DCE and the router DTE. Just make sure the pairing is right. 1-2 is receive (from network) and 4-5 is transmit (to network.) On the router side make sure you have your clock source, encoding and channel groupings are set correctly.
 

Mushkins

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I'm a little curious as to why someone in this day and age would even be having a T1 run to a residential, unless it's an office setup working out of what's technically a home and the teleco is playing games with the wording so they can upcharge you for additional work.

As long as they run their equipment physically into your building *somewhere*, you should be ok running cat5 from their box to your router as long as your router is configured right. If they slapped the box on the outside of your home and are refusing to bring anything further, you've got a little more work to do.
 

brandonb

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What is the little more work?

I see the MPOE (demark) box on the outside of the box, and there is already a cat5 cable coming out of it into the house. I assume I'll just take that out since I have no T1 or phone service at the moment and replace it with a new line into the basement. (Which is unfinished). So I'm wondering what type of work may be required to finish the job.

And the reason: I have no broadband here. It's only dialup, satellite, etc. And since I can afford a T-1 (and I have a business in my name, even though this isn't going to be used for business purposes) I figured I'd order up the T-1 so I have some sort of a stable net connection.