Frontier

This service consists of the devices that work together to provide our internet connection.

The Internet Service

Our internet service is provided by Frontier. With that service, we get a fiber cable, a Fiber modem, and the power supply for that modem. We also got an Eero WiFi base, but we do not use that. It belongs to Frontier and will, no doubt, have to be returned if the service is ever cancelled.

The Fiber Cable

A buried fiber-optic cable runs from Frontier’s connection box, which is buried near the southeast corner of the property. From there, it heads north, runs under the southeast fence gate, through the east side yard to the northeast corner of the duplex, where it curves westward and along the front edge of the flower bed, to a junction box1 on the north wall, four feet or so from the east edge of the doorway into the guest bedroom in unit B.

The Last Yard

The fiber cable is joined in the junction box to another length of fiber — a relatively short2 yellow fiber-optic jumper cable that passes through the back wall. That jumper is connected to the Frontier Fiber Modem. There is a power supply on the wall immediately to the right of the modem

There is an Ethernet cable that comes from the fiber modem to port 9 in the firewall, which is a Ubiquity Unifi Dream Machine (UDM) Special Edition (SE)

Footnotes

  1. The junction box is often referred to as a demarcation box, or ‘demark’

  2. It is about two yards but who’s counting.