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kamak
4 years agoAmbassador
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...
- 4 years ago
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
Community Power User
4 years agoUpper 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.
kamak
4 years agoAmbassador
"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.