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Can Someone Please Identify These Three Pieces of Telus Equipment?
Can anyone identify these three pieces of equipment, with model numbers and manufacture? Nighthawk says this top unit is the NH20A, I was thinking the middle unit was the NH20A. The last (bottom un...
Upper device is the NH20A, a Fibre modem. It acts as an ONT and router, but has no Wi-Fi or POTS connection. It requires the third device for Wi-Fi, which gives you Wi-Fi 6.
The middle device is the previous generation router/Wi-Fi device. Although it is usually connected to an ONT, it also can be used with a direct Fibre connection through a SFP device.
NFtoBC
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Community Power UserUpper device is the NH20A, a Fibre modem. It acts as an ONT and router, but has no Wi-Fi or POTS connection. It requires the third device for Wi-Fi, which gives you Wi-Fi 6.
The middle device is the previous generation router/Wi-Fi device. Although it is usually connected to an ONT, it also can be used with a direct Fibre connection through a SFP device.
So the wall mounted NH20A has fiber in (ONT) and has, what looks like a 10Gbe WAN connection, and 4x Gbe LAN connection and a 2.5Gbe capable MOCA? It is a router, and we can connect any personally owned routers, switches or APs to said Telus ONT/Router, and distribute our own internal network as we wish? We can connect our 2.5/10Gbe capable equipment to said Telus ONT 10Gbe WAN connection, and take advantage of the max 2.5Gbs service Telus provides?
PS: the picture of the NH20A does seems to have a phone jack (POT). Is it nonfictional?
- NFtoBC
You should be able to use devices of your own choosing, but TV will need to be connected to a Telus device.
I've discovered that you can connect Telus TV boxes via Cat5/6 to the Gbe ports of the NH20A or via the MoCA on the NH20A. With MoCA, I believe, you have to use the MoCA-Cat adapters, as that's what I've found out myself using MoCA and Telus DVR/PVR boxes, with the T3200M
- NFtoBC
Yes, the marked phone jack is non-functional.
"The middle device is the previous generation router/Wi-Fi device." Ah, so it's a previous device. Got it. Why don't they keep using the previous device, it seems/looks as or more capable than the wall mounted NH20A, with WiFi 6 included? I see a picture of this device in the Telus Rural 5G service provisions section (see above pic). Maybe it's not WiFi 6.
