New Telus PureFibre installation Quebec

[PeterParker]

Hi everyone,

I'm new to the Telus fibre family. Today was the day of the installation. The first tech who came was a Bell technician, and luckily I manage to call the Telus tech when the Bell tech was there, because he told me to not use the Nokia ONT (the white squared one), but to use a SFP. So the Bell technician installed the SFP, it is a Nokia G-010S-A, which, if I understand correctly, would allow me to bypass completely the NAH20. But the Telus tech wasn't sure, as he told me it was not possible to have internet wihout the NAH20.

So first question, can I completely bypass the NAH20 knowing that I have a Nokia G-010S-A SFP, or I am stuck using bridge mode on it?

If possible, I would like to use this media converter, TPLINK OMADA MC420L

Would it work using this? I want to use that and connect it to a Unifi cloud gateway max and a wifi 7 pod also. I also want to know if I can use an MTU of 1508 on the UCG max, I know Bell are using baby jumbo frames.

Chris

[PeterParker]

2nd Part, I had post another one because my message exceed 2k characters.

Also, my current plan is 1.5gbps down and 940 up. I connected my pc to the 10gbps port, and my pc has a 2.5gbps port. So when I do a speedtest, my download speed only goes up to 1430mbps, and my upload speed up to 1060. So I was wondering why I don't have full speed when downloading, I thought ISPs normally do overprovisioning on the connection?

Finally, I did try the bridge mode, but when I did it on my Asus RT-AX86U, I had to put the credentials for PPPOE authentication, but not set the VLAN ID to 40. It was working only with the credentials, which was weird. I wanted to revert the bridge mode, but I could'nt go to the NAH20 interface. I managed to do it by using 1 ethernet port on the Wifi Booster.

Thanks a lot for your answers, I would really appreciate some feedbacks!

[MrFiber · Accepted solution]

Hey Peter, I'm currently using the Ontario service of telus pure fibre, and have bypassed the NHA20 by using a fiber media converter. WARNING, this will only give you ipv4 as of now and NO IPV6. Here is the link to the one I used. You are going have to set all the PPPOE and VLAN settings  as follows,

VLAN ID: 40

Priority: 0

802.1q tag: yes 

Be sure to use the SFP module provided to you by the tech

[PeterParker]

Finally I bought an Asus RT-BE88U router, and I could bypass the NAH20 by plugging the SFP directly to the 10G SFP port of the router, used your settings, and it's working like a charm! Thanks a lot for your help!

[section126]

I'm considering buying this same router to use with Telus Fibre service. I'm curious: what settings from MrFiber are you referring to, and where did you set them?

Thanks,

[PeterParker]

These are the settings to be able to connect to the Bell network. Bell is using a PPPOE connection, and on the Asus router, you can set them on the WAN section, just enable 802.1q, put vlanid 40, put your PPPOE credentials (you have to ask Telus to have them or the technician).

[PeterParker]

@MrFiber, I was wondering what is the maximum speed you could achieve using speedtest? Mine goes up to 1430mbps. I might be picky, but knowing that I pay for 1.5gb, I wanna be able to achieve that speed!

[MrFiber]

Hey Peter,

I have tested my connection but currently I’m limited to 1 gig due to my gear. Which is approximately is 940 mbps on actual speed test. Now if your getting into technical specs yes your connection can support 1.5gig. Now if your actually going to get 1.5gig is not technically possible due to overhead connection bandwidth that your router is using. In my experience I’ve only gotten 1.5 gig speedtest on only one connection which is rogers, however I’m guessing that they don’t do speed limiting to each client.