Router hookup diagram
How Is Everything Connected Together?
- Your wireless router's power supply cord.
- Your wireless router (Netgear Nighthawk example provided here).
- The Internet antenna outside on the roof, a pole, etc. (There are several different types of Internet antenna models and the one you have may not look like the one in this sample diagram).
- Power supply for the Internet antenna. Typically, an outdoor-rated black CAT5e ethernet cable (not a coax cable) is run from the Internet antenna to the "POE port" on the power supply inside. POE stands for "power over ethernet." The Internet antenna is powered via low-voltage electricity from this power supply.
Typically, a yellow ethernet cable is provided which goes from the "LAN port" on the power supply to the Internet port on your wireless router.
NOTE: the power supply may be black or white and has a light in the middle (blue, green or white light). - Building power. A wall outlet or power strip.
NOTE: Our Internet does NOT use a modem. A modem is a device that converts an analog signal to a digital one. Our Internet signal is already digital and therefore does not require a modem.