20 Jul
2023
20 Jul
'23
7:38 p.m.
It's the way of the world...
FIOS and OO are in _intense_ competition on Long Island and are now
claiming 2 Gbps speeds. Further, they will put together an /incredible/
introductory package price. The downside is that you have to be careful
about what you ask for and how you ask for it because then you lose the
package price and it's BRING YOUR WALLET... The non-package or business
prices are easily 6 to 20 times the cost of the introductory package
prices and you get nowhere near the speed (not that you would
consistently get it, anyway)
To their defense, however, because they have access to and can therefore
control anything in the ONT/router combo, they have the option of having
better instrumentation and doing better trouble-shooting, which might
save a tech visit. Of course, I don't like the idea of that kind of
pervasive monitoring, either.
"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."
That sounds like that will do the trick; can you point me at anything
about that? I'll give them a call, later.
Thanks!!
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On 7/19/23 2:06 PM, dave.g4ugm(a)gmail.com 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
*To:* The Hobbyist DECnet mailing list <hecnet(a)lists.dfupdate.se>
*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.