[GLLUG] own hardware for fibre internet via Comunity Fibre

[travis at mooney-evans.com]

Hi MJ —

I’d say your plan is okay, but you will have to set the SFP module’s MAC address to the same as the ONT.

I used the ONT and then routed in via Ethernet, first with Community, and now with both Hyperoptic and G.Network. While I do agree it is a single point of failure, it’s also a clear demarcation point for the provider’s responsibility and is officially supported by all three providers.

Kind regards,

Travis

> On 13 Dec 2024, at 20:33, MJ via GLLUG <gllug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> Dear GLUG members,
> 
> I do not have friends with electrical engineering background nor time to do long search and/or register with another
> bulletin board, do not want to ask artificial so called intelligence for advise, so I come here.
> Being a personality who rarely does not turn over every stone before I make a decision, I do not have a clues if there
> are any other stones I should be unaware of. Speaking in metaphor. I hope you would not mind.
> 
> Having now opportunity to connect to 1gb synchronous fibre I'd like to use my own router again since IPCop ended.
> I have decided not to use Nokia-ONT G-010G-Q Optical Fibre GPON Terminal, as in this way I can locate all the
> hardware in a dedicated space and I remove another media bridge becoming potential point of failure. I just need
> to neatly run 10 metre long fibre cable without any sharp bends from the
> fibre wall entry location to
> G-010S-A MA5671A Cat Stick 2.5G Optical Cat G-P-O-N Protocol
> inserted to
> Banana Pi BPI-R4 high-performance development board, supporting 2 SFPs
> 
> In this way I have upgrade option of 2 x 10G SFP WAN interfaces.
> Let me know if my logic falter anywhere.
> With Thanks in advance.
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