Hello! I don't want to spend much time on background and stories so I'll basically say we're building two structures on a new property - a house and little workshop/garage that is about 200ft away from the main building. We'll be moving in later this year if all goes well.
So my father called the local ISP and said he wanted the demarc point to be at the shop because it's closer to the road, making a shorter fiber run. We'll Make out LAN start there and run one or two Cat6 cables through the shop and run OM4 fiber to the house for the main network.
But "oh, noooo", "you can't do that" the customer service said it needed two separate demarcation points and we needed to pay for two services, one for each building "because they both have power to it".
It's literally not going to make us use anymore Internet than we already do, is this true that we need to do this?
If it were two houses I would understand because that's two different sets of families and could be considered theft but I don't see why a little shop needs a whole dedicated LAN to itself. Besides, we're definitely not paying for two separate Internet subscriptions, that's outrageous when we don't need it.
What are your thoughts? I was under the impression that I could do whatever I wanted past my side of the demarc zone unless I'm crossing properties or something similar.