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alufers | 2 years ago

I'm not sure where you live (probably the US), but here in Europe you can easily get GPON ONTs from different manufacturers. There even are whole communities dedicated to replacing your ISP's ONT+modem combo: https://hack-gpon.org/quick-start

In some countries (Germany) it's super easy, because there are laws forcing the ISPs to allow customer provided equipment, while in other countries you need to do some hackery with spoofing serial numbers and such of the original modem. People even make utilities to scrape that information via the administrative interface, and make the process semi-automated: https://github.com/StephanGR/GO-BOX

The biggest problem for me about the ISP routers is their sheer size, they probably make them big so that they seem "powerful" to the average person and he chooses that ISP believing that their router provides superior Wi-Fi. New apartments built here (in Poland) even have nice boxes with the incoming fiber and an electrical socket where you are supposed to hide your Router, but the shoebox-sized devices don't fit there and you have to put them on the floor, or somewhere else. I myself have bought a SFP+ GPON (LEOX LXT-010S-H) transceiver, which is the smallest form-factor you can get. It goes inside my Banana-Pi R3 router, together with an LTE modem for backup connectivity. And this setup is still smaller than the box provided by my ISP, which only served as a bridge between GPON and my router.

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Hikikomori|2 years ago

>The biggest problem for me about the ISP routers is their sheer size, they probably make them big so that they seem "powerful" to the average person and he chooses that ISP believing that their router provides superior Wi-Fi.

Size is not just for fun, if you have mu-mimo capable device with multiple antennas you need distance between them. Same with the spider like gaming routers, its not just aesthetics.

semi-extrinsic|2 years ago

Where I live, I just plug the fiber straight into a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X. All the setup needed, which was documented on a local forum, was to buy the correct SFP module and to set a specific VLAN tag on the WAN port.