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Rocko
11 months agoOrganizer
NH20T in Bridge Mode/Speeds/General Home Networking/XGS-PON
Hello all and thanks in advance for any help. First off I understand how to put it in Bridge mode. What I am looking for is the differences between the different bridge modes specifically the...
- 11 months ago
Residential connections are permitted 2 dynamic IP addresses. For troubleshooting purposes it is easier to just bridge the 10G port, especially since Telus tech support won't troubleshoot non-Telus hardware. If 10G Bridge is enabled, the 4 LAN ports on the NH20T would share one WAN IP, and your router connected to the 10G port would have the other.
If you used Full Bridge, all ports would try to pull separate WAN IPs and only the first two devices would work and swapping out a device may take time for the DHCP lease to expire before the next device will work. Worst case you would have to call tech support each time. Full bridge means every port is directly exposed to the internet as well so you'd need to ensure that you have a firewall in place. Your router connected to the 10G port can use whatever IP range you want as it'll be separate from the 4 LAN ports. A different IP range would make differentiating networks a bit easier when troubleshooting.
If you have the older non-AndroidTV based Optik TV boxes, only use 10G Bridge and ensure the Optik boxes are connected to the four LAN ports. The main reason is that most third party routers don't support multicast data properly so the Optik boxes won't work when connected to them. If you have wireless Optik TV boxes, you'd need the Wifi 6 AP from Telus connected to one of the LAN ports also. If you have the new TelusTV+ AndroidTV set top boxes then multicast won't matter and they should just work when on a non-Telus router, but data use when watching TV may count when connected to a thid party router rather than an unbridged port / the Wifi 6 AP on the NH20T.
Rocko
11 months agoOrganizer
Nighthawk I cannot find the post again, but DrPacman posted in a response to someone that with services 1G and below this was possible (eliminating the Telus hardware and using your own) but with services over 1G you could not eliminate the Telus equipment anymore (specifically NH20T) and had to use the 10G Port Bridge mode. The post was from 2023 and it is 2025 now so things may have changed. I suspect it is because of the XGS-PON but I do not know. However, if there is an explanation of why it doesn't work I would love to know.
Cheers
Nighthawk
Community Power User
10 months agoIt will all depend on what hardware was installed. If there is only the NH20T and the fibre is connected to it directly, then bridging the 10G port is the only option. If there is an ONT installed and the NH20T is connected to it over ethernet, then connecting the pfSense box directly to the ONT should be possible as far as I know.
- Rocko10 months agoOrganizer
Hey thank you. Maybe asking for an ONT would be the smart move.
I will keep reading the forums and hopefully someone does both options and can give some feedback. If you come across anything please link it here as I would like to know the reasons why somethings do not work, and performance of the different options.
Cheers!