Spectrum just ran fiber to my house and they left the wire running inside exposed. It looks like the installer was a little lazy about it. I would think you would want to pop the conduit into the box and not have it exposed. Let me know what you think
You can always get one of these patch cables SC/APC in the length of your choice to replace that blue UPC cable.
It should be sc/apc to sc/upc. The ONU is upc
So the correct length of this patch cable
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