Quantum fiber was installed in a friend's Premier home here in the Villages today where the home is around 4,000 sqft. It's way larger than the usual home here in the Villages so an Extender Wifi pod was necessary. The plan was to pre-wire the main WiFi7 pod in one of the rooms as close to the center of the home as possible and then put an extender WiFi pod in a bedroom on the other end of the home. In this specific case, there was an ethernet/phone jack next to where we wanted to install the Extender pod so I pre-wired it.
If you can wire the Extender Wifi pod you don't have to rely on the main Wifi pod communicating with it wirelessly and you will get a stronger Wifi signal giving you more coverage.
Now you will have two wired ethernet connections in the white data cabinet in the garage so what do you do with them? The Quantum SmartNid consists of the Fiber Optic termination and router and it also has a two port ethernet switch/hub built in. So, in this case all we had to do was plug in the two wired ethernet cables, one from the Main Wifi pod and the other from the Extender pod into the SmartNid. Works perfectly.
I can tell you some techs are not aware of this setup so if your home has the ethernet jacks to support this, then ask the tech to hook it up this way.
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