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I'll offer my experience as a homeowner in Portland, OR which lines up pretty well with yours: old house, overhead utilities, open basement. Fiber comes in from the overhead line, gets anchored to the roofline with a metal hook screwed into solid wood at the roof eave, runs down the exterior wall attached by a couple cable staples, punches through the wall high in the basement, and terminates in an installed plastic transition box mounted to the basement wall near where the cable enters. I understand these boxes are sometimes exterior mounted so YMMV. The transition box is basically this: https://www.lowvoltagesupply.com/Primex-125-1051-Fiber-Transition-Outlet-w-IST-p/125-1051.htm ISP cable comes in, plugs into a connecter in a gray box, and the interior cable running to SmartNID/modem plugs into that connector in the box with the slack coiled up. From that box, a SC/APC to SC/APC cable runs to your SmartNID/modem which needs AC power. Then ethernet from SmartNID to 360 WiFi box, or better yet, your own nice gateway with SmartNID in bridge mode. If I were in your position, I would plan where I want that overhead attachment, where I want the exterior cable run, where I want it to enter the basement, where to mount the transition box in basement or exterior, and maybe most pertinently, I would buy some SC/APC to SC/APC cable to run it in the wall from the transition box to where I want the SmartNID since the tech likely won't do a wall run. Leave the protective caps on the cable. This happens to be what I ran that works at my full plan speed 1Gbps symmetric. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CR1CRPWD It says online to never ever unplug any of the fiber optic cable, and you need to have special equipment to clean it, but the tech who came to my house said it's fine to swap as long as you're careful and don't touch the connections.