20 Jul
2023
20 Jul
'23
7:53 p.m.
That's interesting. Can you send me the make and model number of what
you're talking about?
I did almost the same thing with Verizon. What I insisted on was that
the ONT have an Ethernet connection and not the coax connection that it
typically comes with. Once I did that, I plugged my router in and then
plugged their router into my router. Phone worked fine. The TV may
have worked fine, but I don't really remember as neither my wife nor I
ever watched it.
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On 7/19/23 9:49 PM, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
I told Verizon I manage my own LAN and to connect my wall-mounted RJ45
to their WAN and they put in this ONT. it is available on eBay for
around $20. I use a home-built miniPC with a PCI quad-NIC running
Sophos UTM9 in a Virtualbox on Linux as the main router that does DHCP
for WAN and three different subnets on the LAN side (smart home/iot,
hobby lab and general purpose family subnets). I think you can just
buy a ONT off eBay and be done. I believe it’s a Alcatel thing.
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On Jul 19, 2023, at 4:22 PM, Steve Davidson
<steve(a)davidson.net> wrote:
Would a vpn work to the other end? That way the other end would
supply you an address.
-Steve Davidson
SF:iP1
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wrote:
Thomas,
I don’t think you can buy an ONT as I think it does some network
filtering and the ISP needs to know its MAC address or similar…
… this seems to confirm….
https://www.cabletv.com/optimum/compatible-modem-routers
… the optimum combo is being slagged off everywhere. It appears to
have no support for port mapping, I wonder if they are using CGNAT…
https://www.reddit.com/r/OPTIMUM/comments/k703ni/anyone_with_fiber_experime…
… elsewhere
https://www.reddit.com/r/FiberOptics/comments/w81umo/just_hopped_onto_fiber…
it says…
You can usually request a fibre to Ethernet bridge from your ISP
(Optimum does do this) and you can use your own router with an
Ethernet WAN port.
Dave
*From:*Thomas DeBellis <tommytimesharing(a)gmail.com>
*Sent:* Wednesday, July 19, 2023 5:47 PM
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*Subject:* [HECnet] ONT?
I'm moving in a few days and am trying to understand what to do
about connectivity without drowning (in advertising or whining).
I currently have FIOS and had ordered it so that I had a separate
Optical Network Terminal (ONT) and router. I plugged my own router
into the ONT and the FIOS router into my router and all has been well.
The Internet provider at the new location is Optimum Online which
previously had been a lot easier to deal with than FIOS as you could
just plug into the cable modem or get your own. Naturally, I was
provided with a combo ONT/Wireless/Router solution that just isn't
going to cut it. I'm trying to search for an ONT, but am getting
deluged with the usual stream of noise, junk and advertising. For
example, I'm getting Optical-Ethernet converters, which I don't
think are what I want.
Can anybody point me at a few ONT-only solutions that don't come
with all the extra garbage, don't do NAT, Etc.? Or some kind of
good introductory information without all the blinking ads?
TOMMYT:: [2.520] and VENTI2:: [2.522] will be offline for a few days
towards the end of the week.
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