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Re: Bypass Telus ONT/router with SFP in own router
DrPackman, first of all, thank you for getting back to me so quickly and for your reply. I appreciate it. Two more quick questions. Does your Telus provided SFP run hot? I saw a few people claim Telus preferred the dedicated ONT setup due to the optical SFP transceiver running hot. Maybe this issue is solved 2023. Also you mentioned you set the speed to avoid issues. I heard some very simmilar comments that the telus SFP kept trying to negotiate 2.5GBASE-X and that people's systems only supported 1G or 10G causing issue.9.8KViews0likes1CommentBypass Telus ONT/router with SFP in own router
Some claim this will work, others say it has problems and wont. Let's say your default fiber setup is a Telus optical SFP transceiver attached to the T3200M/other. Unplug the SFP and plug it into your own SFP capable router, or into a media converter and then a SFP to RJ45 and cat6 to your own non-SFP router, done. A few comments here and other places online claim it's as easy as that. DrPackman here claims... "TELUS installed the T3200M router/gateway on my system so the SFP module was already registered with TELUS. Pulled it from the router and install it in the USG Pro 4. That was it…" https://forum.telus.com/t5/Internet-Home-Phone/Eliminate-Nokia-ONT-go-direct-to-my-own-router-s-SFP-port/m-p/107838 But other people say it's not really possible for home residential use (my purpose) https://forum.telus.com/t5/Business/Regular-Internet-outages-when-using-bypassing-Telus-router/td-p/105811 Claiming outages every hour due to "non-standard implementation of ARP (Address Resolution Protocol)" And then say that "Telus will enable ARP on a business service but will not on a residential service, so in that case you're stuck with the ActionTec modem" aka not possible to bypass for home. Also a distant colleague claims he plugged the Telus SFP into his router but it didn't work until he changes the Mac address of the router and that telus SFP is locked to only a certain Mac address device " "I have router with SFP module I take out (Telus) SFP module and insert in my router change mac address of router and it works but if you don't change mac address it will not work" So these two problems mentioned are conflicting with the comments of other people saying it just works. If it works you'd think they'd mention in their posts they have mac issues and constant ARP network dropsSolved10KViews0likes3CommentsRe: Fibre drilling and termination box locations
That's right, right in the ground. Inside the box is thick black rubber outdoor grade cable heading to each house. Inside the 1 single cable jacket are 2 sub jackets. 1. One contains plain old regular blue Cat5. And in the big box the cat 5 twisted pairs finger out of the cable and becomes a rat nest of tel wires. 2. The other contains dead Coax (not used, not Shaws, dead ends in the big box, and dead end at the homes) This cable goes into the dirt and to the homes. However the primary Mother cable comes up into the box via big 4 inch PVC pipe. It I'll be easy to bring fiber Into the neighborhood, but a mess to take it to the homes.14KViews0likes3CommentsRe: Fibre drilling and termination box locations
There are zero poles in my community. Everything is underground. Shaws CATV cable comes up in a pipe behind the Tel box and enters the wall without a there being any CATV box. If this CATV pipe continues in the dirt, unknown need to dig to check. However the CATV goes to a different hub and is not the same hub where Tel is (I've seen the inside of the big Tel lawn box before when a neighbor car hit it and it was wide open for weeks, it only contains tel wires (Cat5) inside, no Coax)14KViews0likes5CommentsRe: Fibre drilling and termination box locations
I see, so in this case they will probably not put it on the gas side and be forced to put it on the Tel side. You are very correct in your comment about, save a dollar back then and now a headache today, conduit isn't even expensive.14KViews0likes1CommentRe: Fibre drilling and termination box locations
I would have thought that my home back in the pre2000s they would have been smart enough to put a conduit pipe. However this is not the case. Confirmed by my neighbor who used to install cable TV. The copper phones wires are just in a thick half inch black outdoor rubber jacket, burried direct in the dirt, no conduit, the plastic "conduit" pipe from the ground level to the box is only a riser, but it's not continuous once it touches a few inches into the ground. I wonder if I can dig around this riser pipe, and then have them bring the fiber up to it, and then snake the fiber into this phone riser conduit.14KViews0likes11CommentsRe: Fibre drilling and termination box locations
The telephone line (as you said) is actually just a Cat5 ethernet cable that comes in and they use a twisted pairs off of that to make the phone. And yes, the Left side of the house has an electric meter, and the phone box. "Will it be a unsightly penetrator" yeah it would be. The way the home was set up with the windows, utilities boxes, etc (there's even a small path/hole directly behind the telephone box underneath the siding {you'd never know unless the siding was removed}) was meant for those 2 boxes (electric and phone/cable box) to be there, and nothing else. Place a new box would be tight, unsightly, and involve drilling a hole through thick virgin wall that wasn't meant to have utilities pass through it. Hence why I'd want them to reuse the existing box.14KViews0likes1CommentFibre drilling and termination box locations
Telus is installing underground fibre in my area, all the homes have underground utilities and all homes face the street head on. The homes all have from left to right (coming from the under ground right of way at the street like an upside down "T") Copper, Electricity, Right side *your home* Left side, Gas. Then Copper/Electricity next house, etc. Based on this I assume with they will install Fibre flow pots so that it will be Fiber/Electric, Home, gas, Fiber/Electric, home gas. Here's my concern, my siding is brand new and I don't want them installing a new termination box on my house and drilling a hole in the wall on the Left (most visible) side. I'd like to request that my flower pot (and hence my termination box) goes on the Right side by the gas meter, and my Fiber and the Right house neighbors (left Fiber) are in the same area. Is this allowed, picking the side, or is there some rule that says all wire services going to a single home must be on a certain side of a home, even my neighbors fibre is right beside my gas line. Next. If I can not pick what side I want, can I have them snake the conduit up to my Phone/copper termination box and have them just snake the fiber through that box and into the existing hole in the wall. Essentially reuse the Telephone coppe termination box, there is no technical reason blocking it from being done, epically since the only thing in this box is Telephone (not CATV) and telephone copper is going in the trash anyways.14KViews0likes17Comments