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I connected with a Villager who has a new home in the South of the Villages with Centric Fiber service. The way it works is the fiber comes into the home and is connected to a terminal box in the white Low Voltage cabinet in the garage. If you open the cabinet in the garage you will see a thick wire coming from the bottom of the box from outside the home to a small white box in the cabinet. From that box is a thin blue fiber that goes into the attic and then terminates to a fiber terminator on top of one of the cabinets in the kitchen. There, already installed and powered up you will see a WiFi router connected to the fiber terminator. If you want to turn on the service all you need to do is to call Centric and they will e-mail you a password, then you will have WiFi all throughout your home. Nothing else to do. $65 per month, 1GB bidirectional service (more bandwidth than you will ever use), no tax, no contract, very easy. Once the WiFi is enabled then you can connect the installed WiFi thermostat, your TV and all your other WiFi devices. Unless you have a very large home and want full speed everywhere, you should have to install an external WiFi mesh network. Also, for those technical people who want wired internet to their office computer for example, coming out of the router in the kitchen they connected one of the blue ethernet cables which brings wired ethernet back to the low voltage cabinet in the garage. There you will see many blue ethernet cables going to recepticles throughout your home. If you want wired internet to your office for example, you will need to get a connector tool or have someone with one put a ethernet RJ45 plug on the cable going to your office and then connect it to the blue ethernet cable coming from the router in the kitchen. You can also buy a ethernet switch from Netgear for example, you can get them on Amazon or Best Buy and plug the blue ethernet cables in the Low Voltage cabinet in the garage into the ethernet switch for the connection.

This is actually a very nicely engineered setup for fiber service in your home. I still don't know what the Villages calls a "smart home" but now i'm guessing it's having this Wifi setup along with a Wifi thermostat installed when you buy the home.

Hope this helps clear up this mystery.