Make sure you're install ready

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make sure you're
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Check out these tips to make connecting your home a breeze!

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Life is hard enough these days without having to worry about your internet service. That’s why you need FASTnet. FASTnet is the fastest, easiest, and most reliable internet option available. All brought to you by your friends at 4-County Electric Power Association. No contracts, no hassles, no data caps. Just the fastest internet available from the people you trust.

We’re bringing 4-County’s broadband internet service to your neighborhood. That means fast, affordable, and reliable internet will soon be available at your home. But before it is, we’ll have to do some work. Our procedure is to follow the electric service. If your 4-County service comes to your home in the air from a pole, so will your FASTnet service. If your home or neighborhood is fed underground, then your FASTnet will be as well. Overhead service is straight forward and can be accomplished with minimal disruption. Underground service is a bit more involved. Most of our fiber construction is being done by contractors which are managed by 4-County and FASTnet.

We’re bringing 4-County’s broadband internet service to your neighborhood. That means fast, affordable, and reliable internet will soon be available at your home. But before it is, we’ll have to do some work. Our procedure is to follow the electric service. If your 4-County service comes to your home in the air from a pole, so will your FASTnet service. If your home or neighborhood is fed underground, then your FASTnet will be as well. Overhead service is straight forward and can be accomplished with minimal disruption. Underground service is a bit more involved. Most of our fiber construction is being done by contractors which are managed by 4-County and FASTnet.

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What can you expect with UNDERGROUND FIBER construction?

Obviously, our goal is to install our broadband infrastructure in your neighborhood with the least inconvenience to you and your neighbors. In most cases contractors will be working in the utility easement that already exists. We also have construction plans for each neighborhood and our goal is always to stick as closely to them as possible, but as on any project, things can be very fluid and change quickly.

Prior to construction beginning, we contact 811 and have utility locates done. That means the various other utility companies such as natural gas, water and phone, mark where their lines run. They’ll mark those lines with spray paint, small flags, or both. As we’ve discovered, sometimes those marks are incorrect, or water or sewage lines that were installed by a homeowner or builder are not marked. That means we could cut into an existing line. Main lines are usually the responsibility of the utility that owns them to repair if the locate was incorrect. If it is our fault, we will repair the damage.

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We will be installing conduit (the orange plastic piping that protects the fiber optic cable). Sometimes we will be doing trenching (where we open a small ditch) to install the conduit and fiber, sometimes we’ll be doing boring (where a drill like instrument is used to make an underground tunnel for the conduit).


We will also be installing boxes called vaults. These vaults are used to protect and provide access to fiber for splicing and other maintenance. Most of these vaults will be flush with the ground when complete.


Prior to construction beginning, we contact 811 and have utility locates done. That means the various other utility companies such as natural gas, water and phone, mark where their lines run. They’ll mark those lines with spray paint, small flags, or both. As we’ve discovered, sometimes those marks are incorrect, or water or sewage lines that were installed by a homeowner or builder are not marked. That means we could cut into an existing line. Main lines are usually the responsibility of the utility that owns them to repair if the locate was incorrect. If it is our fault, we will repair the damage.


We will be installing conduit (the orange plastic piping that protects the fiber optic cable). Sometimes we will be doing trenching (where we open a small ditch) to install the conduit and fiber, sometimes we’ll be doing boring (where a drill like instrument is used to make an underground tunnel for the conduit).


We will also be installing boxes called vaults. These vaults are used to protect and provide access to fiber for splicing and other maintenance. Most of these vaults will be flush with the ground when complete.