04-05-2022 10:08 AM - edited 04-05-2022 10:21 AM
Can anyone identify these three pieces of equipment, with model numbers and manufacture?
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/TELUS+Wi-Fi+Hub+(Arcadyan)+Teardown/129682
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04-06-2022 10:40 AM - edited 04-06-2022 10:40 AM
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.
04-05-2022 12:12 PM - edited 04-05-2022 01:17 PM
This is probably where this device (middle picture) came from. Rural Telus Customer Equipment/5G...etc plans.
Though it is a Fiber fed ONT/Router/WiFi device, not a 5G cellular modem.
04-06-2022 10:40 AM - edited 04-06-2022 10:40 AM
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.
04-06-2022 11:21 AM
"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.
04-06-2022 11:30 AM - edited 04-06-2022 11:59 AM
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?
04-07-2022 12:33 PM
Yes, the marked phone jack is non-functional.
04-07-2022 12:37 PM
You should be able to use devices of your own choosing, but TV will need to be connected to a Telus device.
04-07-2022 01:20 PM
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