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I was averaging around 15 minutes per splice. I think I spent more time pulling the cable through the walls and attic, and that would have been a huge pain with the pigtails still attached (not to mention the increased risk of damaging the fragile pigtails).

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Fair, but just shifting faulty points down to "pickup that can citizen"

When I designed LDAC the requirement was "fiber to desktop" (2004)

Your 10 minutes doesnt scale to folks who dont have your skills, thus more fishing...

I'd never terminated fiber before, so I just watched some youtube videos to teach myself. The main trick was making sure that the cleaver was cutting clean, and the fusion splicer would do most of the rest of the work. Every so often the splicer would detect a bad splice and I'd have to re-do. Since I did the work 5 years ago, none of the splices have had any issues, even the ones painfully terminated in a cheap splice tray behind the wall before I figured out the pre-termination trick.

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