Get Your Home Ready for Fiber Optic

You may need to get your house ready for installing fiber optic.

This new alcove high up in my central hallway is where the fiber optic cable terminates inside my home. It will feed into a powerful wireless router that will supply high-speed Internet throughout my entire home. Tim Carter/Tribune Content Agency/TNS

I’m guessing you log onto the internet each day. I travel the information superhighway all day long as part of my business. Fiber optic cables have now been extended throughout my small town in New Hampshire, and I’m ecstatic about their arrival. I remember using a 300-baud modem back in the 1980s. It would transmit text via telephone lines at about the same speed as you see headlines crawl at the bottom of your TV screen.

I had to get my house ready for this installation. You may have to do the same thing if you want reliability for years to come. If you’re building a new home, it’s vital you do several things to get ready for this latest technology trend.