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. 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, the fiber cable 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. It runs up the north wall to a junction box2 about four feet or so from the east edge of the doorway into the unit B guest bedroom.
The Last Yard
The fiber cable is joined in the junction box to another length of fiber — a relatively short3 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 UDM controller/firewall4 Ubiquity Unifi Dream Machine (UDM) Special Edition (SE)
Footnotes
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We also got an Eero WiFi base with the service, but we no longer use that. 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’ ↩
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It is about two yards but who’s counting. ↩
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A Ubiquity Unifi Dream Machine (UDM) Special Edition (SE) ↩