Last Thursday, Quantum Fiber came to my door saying they finally had fiber in my neighborhood. This is the new arm of the ISP I currently use, branded as a separate product.

I signed up, and they scheduled the appointment for today. The installer came out first thing, just as my morning meetings were kicking in. I showed him where the other lines come into the house, and where the data center is in my basement, which is where the DSL terminates. He noticed my WiFi router and said that's way better than the stuff they sent him with. I had planned to plug mine into theirs and bridge anyway, so it worked out when he said I could just plug my router into the egress router they have and skip using their mesh hardware. With that, we agreed to just mount that gear right by the window where the wires come in, and I'll put the necessary Ethernet in place. There was already a wire nearby waiting to be used from when my office was in the basement, so seemed easy.

He went outside to bring the fiber from the alley. When he was ready, we regrouped in the basement to discuss bringing the wire through. He said I'm gonna put it here, and cut the DSL...I cringed inside, but fell on the "same company, same services" answer the sales people gave me when I asked about static IPs and IPv6. A few minutes later, all was done, and the installed WiFi was working.

I took some more meetings using their new WiFi, but started dreading things when my Internet monitors started screaming that my websites, like this one, were found to be unavailable. In a meeting break, I connected the aforementioned Ethernet cable and did a tiny readdress on the router. I poked a little at the egress on the container machine, to look at its LAN address instead of its public IP, and made corresponding DNS updates to my CDN.

Lights turned green again!

Now I need to find and figure out new static IPs, and all will be well in the world again.