Frontier
The internet service consists of devices, cables, and other stuff that work together to provide the internet connection.
Our Internet Service Provider
Our internet service is provided by Frontier. With that service, we get a fiber cable(s), a Fiber modem, and the power supply for that modem. We also got an Eero Wi-Fi base unit, but we no longer use it 1.
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 box2 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[^5] of fiber — a relatively short[^4] 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)
The jumper is about three feet long. It is certainly not too long.
Footnotes
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It belongs to Frontier and will, no doubt, have to be returned if the service is ever cancelled. ↩
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The junction box is often referred to as a demarcation box, or ‘demark’. See demarcation box ↩