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Originally Posted by idlewild
INSTALLED EQUIPMENT:
Inside the low voltage box in your garage, your home should have an Optical Network Terminal (ONT) which is equivalent to a modem for non-fiber (i.e. cable) (e.g. Optimum) service. This device translates the light over fiber into electrical over Category (Cat) 5/6 cable and is provided by Centric Fiber.
You should also have a Wi-Fi gateway installed in the back of the kitchen cabinet about your refrigerator. This gateway, the Centric Fiber Mini Gateway, connects to the ONT through a Cat 6 cable that is already connected. As with the ONT, this device is also provided by Centric Fiber and it support Wi-Fi 6 which lacks the 6Ghz band of newer Wi-Fi standards, Wi-Fi 6e and Wi-Fi 7, but it should be more than enough for 99% of us.
I've attached a photo of our Centric Fiber Mini Gateway in our kitchen cabinet for reference. I'm not sure why, but it looks like the yellow CAT 6 cable is connecting an Ethernet Port in this cabinet to something below it, but it might be just coming from beneath the cabinet and plugging directly into the gateway.
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When I was talking to the Centric tech, he said that device in the LVP is not really an ONT. He called it something else, but I don't remember what he called it. The fiber cable actually runs from that box all the way to your kitchen Centric gateway (look underneath.) The yellow cat6 cable you mentioned runs back to the LVP (to be connected to a switch.) This is so that your hardwire connections, if any, can be plugged in to the same switch and connect to your kitchen gateway. Hope this helps.