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i have this modem/router i will call it a router, the netgear 3700-100nas unit. anyway i now have it connected to cable and i'm looking at switching to fibre, will this router work with frontier's fi...
Go back to your first message. You said:
i have this modem/router i will call it a router, the netgear 3700-100nas unit. anyway i now have it connected to cable and i'm looking at switching to fibre, will this router work with frontier's fiber system?
The immediate answer is no. The C3700 can connect to cable networks.
As explained earlier, "fibre" is meaningless. There is fibre in every Internet service. (There are also wires.)
How does the Internet get to you?
You also said:
i believe frontier installs a box of sorts either on the outside of the house or in the garage or a utility room and that is the fibre gear and from there it converts to the lan system.
That is usually a sign that they are delivering the Internet over fibre optic system that delivers to your front door. The output is the LAN port.
You can then plug that into a router. This means that your C3700 will be useless.
Then you said:
they provide the Amazon eero Pro 6 router and that router has 2 lan ports t
So, the output into the LAN system from the box the outside of the house feeds into the eero router.
Where did this bit suddenly come from?
tell me how do you get fibre on that Amazon eero 6 Wi-Fi router it does not have any fibre connections only phone connections.
If the eero 6 Wi-Fi router has only phone connections, it isn't a router.
i just talked to frontier and they told me they do not have fibre in my areaDoes this mean that you have to abandon the idea of "looking at switching to fibre"?
This is all getting very confusing.
tell me how do you get fibre on that Amazon eero 6 Wi-Fi router it does not have any fibre connections only phone connections. i just talked to frontier and they told me they do not have fibre in my area so all the folks i have talked to must have dsl and i found a YT that claims dsl only can get to 500kbps and that fibre only gets to 1gbps now i have no real proof but that is what that YT claims. but i did learn that when you have fibre internet they drop a fibre line into your home and convert it there. so if and when they start hooking up fibre to my area i may hook up. one thing is, they did run fibre down past my house back in 2020. i saw them do it and i asked them what line they were running and they said fibre line. and they left coils at the end of each section of run and a year later they came out and terminated that line. i got a chunk and it was fibre. thanks for the help so far.
Go back to your first message. You said:
i have this modem/router i will call it a router, the netgear 3700-100nas unit. anyway i now have it connected to cable and i'm looking at switching to fibre, will this router work with frontier's fiber system?
The immediate answer is no. The C3700 can connect to cable networks.
As explained earlier, "fibre" is meaningless. There is fibre in every Internet service. (There are also wires.)
How does the Internet get to you?
You also said:
i believe frontier installs a box of sorts either on the outside of the house or in the garage or a utility room and that is the fibre gear and from there it converts to the lan system.
That is usually a sign that they are delivering the Internet over fibre optic system that delivers to your front door. The output is the LAN port.
You can then plug that into a router. This means that your C3700 will be useless.
Then you said:
they provide the Amazon eero Pro 6 router and that router has 2 lan ports t
So, the output into the LAN system from the box the outside of the house feeds into the eero router.
Where did this bit suddenly come from?
tell me how do you get fibre on that Amazon eero 6 Wi-Fi router it does not have any fibre connections only phone connections.
If the eero 6 Wi-Fi router has only phone connections, it isn't a router.
i just talked to frontier and they told me they do not have fibre in my area
Does this mean that you have to abandon the idea of "looking at switching to fibre"?
This is all getting very confusing.
i have figured it all out
corvairbob wrote:
i have figured it all out
Care to share your findings for the benefit of other people with the same issues?
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