Fiber Optic Internet Service

Faster Speeds

This is the most advanced method to deliver high-speed Internet. Fiber is a great economic leveler for rural and suburban residents. Your home will have the same advanced connectivity as the most high-tech building in any major financial district. Imagine an environment where you can stream HD video to as many devices simultaneously as you want to without any buffering.

Increased Reliability

Imagine an environment where your Internet service never goes down, and you never have to waste time calling Technical Support. This perfect connection can be yours with fiber optic cable. The fiber cabling running to your home from the main cable contains just a few strands of fiber, but those strands could theoretically carry all the information in the Western USA.

Unlimited Bandwidth

Fiber-optic cable carries an all-digital signal and is better suited to today’s digital communication devices. Fiber optics are the future of communications, because both copper and wireless will eventually max out on the bandwidth people want.

The new fiber ONT (optical network terminal) separates the phone and internet signal, so they will need to travel over separate wires inside your home. We may need to run a new Cat5 cable into your home and install our service to one phone jack and to one ethernet jack at a convenient location inside your home, so that you can hook up your phone as well as your computer or router.

First, we bore (or plow) in plastic conduit underground, which is a good method because it has very little environmental impact. We then blow the fiber optic cable through the conduit using compressed air moving at very high speeds. The high-velocity air flow causes the cable to float, and that way we can feed it through very easily. Where the fiber needs to be spliced to several homes, we put in handholds (known as buried manholes) with loops of fiber, where we can branch off and pick up other new homes in the future.

Buried networks are all about reliability! You can count on your fiber connection to work in spite of fire, a blizzard, or windstorms. PMT’s fiber network is 100% buried—no wireless components or downed lines to worry about.

Yes. The old Network Interface Device (NID) you currently have will be replaced by a slightly larger Optical Network Terminal (ONT). The ONT coverts the optical signal to ethernet signal. This unit will also contain the power supply and battery back up for the electronics. The ONT requires electricity. Since fiber cannot carry an electric power charge like copper can, a battery back-up is required to power your phone service in the event of a general power outage. This battery is designed to last for 8 or more hours, depending on phone usage. Typically, the electronics use .001 kwh per month.

Though we may sometimes be required to dig across your yard to bury a new fiber line, our goal is to treat your property as if it were our own. Often, we will have buried conduit already in place. We will always strive to promptly restore your property to a condition as close to original as possible. However, homeowners should also understand that your lot came with legal easements registered to each home, for power, water and communications. Anything planted or built over these easements will always be in danger of being disturbed or removed by any public utility companies. Remember to always call Digline at 811 before you dig.