I will have 2 ISP?s. Any residence I will have, I will use a network server instead of the off the shelf router. A network server will give me all of the features of a router and in addition will offer ad blocking capabilities, and caching of websites visited so it will reduce the download times, and fetches. The internet server won’t be very powerful. I seen some routers having as little as a 1Ghz CPU which is minimal these days. With a network server, I will be able to have the integrated NIC connections to connect to both of the providers. The network server will have a 10GBPS NIC card installed which will give me 4 LAN connections with one of them being to the switch.
The primary provider will be Verizon’s FiOS (Fiber Optic Service) at 2.5GBPS connection. The connection will terminate as a RJ45 connection which means no modem will be required. Verizon will not support hardware that is not their’s so they may want to blame the network router for any connection issues. This is where I will have a backup router. If the network server can’t get a connection, then I will plug the switch into the router, and see if that works. If it does, then the there is an issue with the network server. If it doesn’t work, then it would be the service provider.
The second connection will be a Starlink connection. This will have a satellite dish on the roof, and the cable from the dish will run down to the WAN?-2 connection – therefore offering a backup connection to the internet which is important on so many levels.