Hi,
I'm going on my fifth year of having FiOS. I've never had any serious issues with the service; just a minor disagreement with customer service during my last renewal over movie channels. Everything has worked perfectly. I have, however, been tidying up some of my inside wiring as I'm getting ready to install a generator. I started by removing most of my phone extensions as with DECT 6.0 phones I only actually need 1 working extension, and left two additional for hard-wired phones. Every extension in my house with the exception of 1 was a direct home-run to where the main phone line comes in. I (incorrectly I'll admit) used a 66 punch block to punch the extensions down and simply ran wires to facilitate this. Since it's just voice and not data it works well.
Anyway, when my FiOS was originally installed, the installer ran the phone line from the FiOS box directly in to the old copper NID; disconnecting the original copper line and connecting a new cable from the FiOS lines directly in to it. I'm assuming he did this as it was easier/more secure than trying to patch in to the existing run; which was barely long enough for the existing line (when I had the NID replaced a few years ago, the installer actually used crimp splices to extend it a few inches.
I'm going on the assumption that I don't actually need to feed in to the NID anymore due to the way FiOS phone lines work. I'm not on copper anymore (in fact, when they came to bury the fiber line a year after install the guys sliced right through the old copper); so I see this as an extra unnecessary connection in the path. I'd like to just rerun a new line from the ONT directly to the house wiring; but I'd like to make sure there's no technical reason I need to have the NID in the middle..since I'm just dealing with a single cable.
I'd also like to take this now non-functioning box off my house so I can mount my generator there and shorten the amount of cabling I have to run to it.
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