“I’m getting fiber to my house for high speed internet. How does this device connect to fiber? Are other parts required? Is there a WiFi router with fiber port and switch ports?”
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I can't address your specific situation, but I think my own experience with residential fiber-to-the-premise is probably fairly typical. When I moved in a couple of years ago, my telco/isp (TDS) had recently installed fiber in the subdivision. The old copper phone line was still in place on the side of the garage, and there was a piece of fiber optic cable right next to it. When the installers (3 guys) came out to hook me up, they removed the old copper demarc and installed an optical network terminal (a small plastic box with electronics inside) on the side of the garage. Since the ONT needs power, they installed a small ups in the garage, plugged it into a power outlet, and ran a wire to the ONT. Finally, they connected the phone lines in the house to the ONT, and ran an ethernet cable from the ONT to an ethernet jack next to the wifi router inside the house, and the router plugs into that jack. So now both phone and internet (and tv, if you buy that too) go via fiber, and the ups is intended to keep the phone alive for a while if the power goes out. Yeah, you need a power outlet near the ONT, and they will have to drill holes and run wires and install equipment and work on the fiber cable itself. You also need to decide where you want the ethernet jack installed inside the house. It's definitely not a do-it-yourself install. It took 3 guys a couple of hours, and they're pros, with tools regular folks don't have. YMMV, but all this was included as part of a standard installation with a 2 year contract. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me. So, the router doesn't connect directly to the fiber; the ONT (and its ups and wiring) sits between the fiber and the router. All the router needs is a standard ethernet wan port.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.There is a device (an ONT), typically supplied and installed by the fiber provider where the fiber enters your home, with a cat5/cat6 ethernet output. You'd plug that device into this one (via a standard network cable) to provide wifi to your home.
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