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Re:Can't fish Ethernet? Use "invisible" fiber instead by favorited on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:24PM (#50344811)
This is how my apartment complex retrofitted all 300ish units with AT&T fiber. Fiber runs from your building's telecom room to a small hole they drilled above everyone's front door, then along baseboards and around door jambs until it reaches ~the center of the unit (concrete walls...) in the living room.

It is genuinely invisible until you get up close. You're far more likely to notice the spots where someone got sloppy with the glue in some corner than the fiber itself. With proper attention to detail during installation (and assuming you have white door jambs and baseboards) it would be basically invisible.

Re:Can't fish Ethernet? Use "invisible" fiber instead by _mpn_ on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:53PM (#50345200)
This also happened in my previous place with Verizon Fios (pre-war co-op rental), but only in the hallways. In the unit Verizon ran thicker fiber.