Work From Home/Hybrid Question
Hoping someone who has or currently does work remotely for RBC could answer this question for me.
I accepted a job offer for this position and one of the requirements was to have the modem in the same room as the PC, which is no big deal. That was all they said initially. It wasn't until they gave me the offer that they mentioned they want the modem directly connected to the PC, with nothing in between. Well that's instantly a problem that I've gotta solve, because my fiber modem has a POE box that sits between the modem and literally anything else, it's a required piece of equipment from the ISP. Also, I didn't think about it until afterwards, but I have someone else that lives with me and I can't exactly pull the ethernet from my router to connect to my PC when working, because his router gets its connection through mine, so if I'm working with the modem connected directly to my PC, no other device can get a connection and they won't be able to use any of their stuff...
Can anyone clarify or provide any solutions as to what might work in this situation, so that I'm not kicking everyone/everything off the internet for 8+ hours a day 5 days a week?
My first thought was could they even detect that there's a router there between the modem and my PC? If so, would an ethernet switch be an alternative solution, but then that is dependent on if my ISP supports multiple public IPs or not.
The only other option I can come up with would be to have the ISP run a second line run into the house, dedicated for my work only... but that would mean paying two monthly internet bills and I would obviously prefer to avoid that.
Any help or advise is appreciated!
Edit: Just a little more context for clarification;
- My internet is reeeally good, so there's no concerns in regard to internet issues or things of that nature. (2.5Gbps up and down fiber <3)
- They had mentioned many times throughout the process that people had been fired for not following the policy of having the modem physically in the same room as the computer. (They even had me take photos to email them and prove the modem was in fact in the same room as the computer.)
- They told me during the offer about the modem needing to be directly connected to the computer. I have a fiber modem that requires a POE, so it goes like this; modem > POE > router > everything else. But after seeing the photo they wanted it to go; modem > computer. I had to explain to them that the POE is a required piece of equipment and without it the modem doesn't function, that's just how it works.
- Yes, I fully agree it's weird and makes no sense lol. If the internet connection is stable and meets speed requirements (which mine easily does), then it doesn't make any difference if it's connected directly to the modem or connected to a router/WiFi/etc.