Uhhh, wtf was that installer thinking, get them back out there to terminate it properly

Your installer is either an idiot or just lazy. That yellow cable is a premade patch cable with stranded wire. The white one is at least copper clad aluminum but at least solid. This moron connected them with scotch locks. Like a few others have said he should have just terminated the end of the white cable. He saw your job as an easy complete but you should call back and give him a repeat. Repeats within 30 days hurt the techs numbers.

Those are great for telephone connections.

Absolute garbage for ethernet.

I’ve connected two cat6 cables with wago connectors just to prove to someone it would work

Why haven’t they just crimped an end on the white cable and plugged that directly in?

If you get 1Gbps, don’t worry about it. But that looks terrible. It looks like that white wire could have just been terminated and plugged into the ONT. Looks long enough.

These connectors work perfectly for their intended implementation.

They are great for cable repairs and joining where it’s required.

The speed will be unaffected.

Is it a nice install? No way!

Very weird to chose to do this rather than just put a plug or keystone wall mount on the end of the white cable.

Scotchloks work in a pinch but aren’t recommended and it makes the install look ugly. That being said, you can absolutely negotiate 1gbit full duplex without any errors, and the cable will be fine to use. I’ve used them in situations where I had nothing else and needed a halfway decent connection. I’ve also tested over cabling terminated with Scotchloks with a tdr and they show no difference or reflectivity along the wire. It could be worse, they could’ve used wire nuts. Or used cat3.

Those are probably braided cables too. I personally wouldn’t scotch lock those

I had a Verizon tech do this on a FiOS install. I was told that it should be fine, but as soon as he left I cut it out and crimped the ends with proper connectors, and connected them together with a coupler.

Scotchlocks work fine. I work for a phone company, and they are used a lot working with adsl service. Then that technique is used in fiber installs, because techs don’t do a lot of rj45 crimps. Its just a matter of what the tech is good at. This wire management could have been nicer. Still… it gets the job done.

Trash work, though it will probably work fine. I would request they send someone out to do it right. When they refused I would just do it myself.

Lazy as fuck.

It’s probably better than some of the connections where they untwist like 2-3 inches (or more 😬) on either side of a crimp or punchdown connection.

Why did he give you a 210? I install for ATT for a living and don’t use those ONTsv unless absolutely necessary.

To your question you can absolutely get 1gb speeds with an install done that way… I haven’t been able to order rj45 ends in 6 months so I’ve been forced to do some jobs this way where running a single patch cord wasn’t feasible.

Edit: I just noticed the fiber half circle lmao