BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

[Duke]

...closure for all those on the edge of their seats with the Vodafone install mentioned above. OR came out today and replaced the large ONT & BBU with just a new small ONT and connected the Vodafone router. It was going to take a while to activate the new ONT so he went to the next job then phoned when it went live. Except it wasn't live. I could connect to the VF router fine but in the logs could see it wasn't getting a public IP. A reboot of the VF router triggered a firmware update, so it must have connected briefly post reboot to grab it, but after that it was denied pairing. After waiting a while then rebooting the ONT it then all kicked in

 

[Caged]

Weird that Openreach did an ONT swap, maybe they're trying to remove all the Huawei stuff

 

[Duke]

Yeah I think they have to remove it all by a certain date? Thats the only reason I can think they would swap it as the existing kit looked good as new still. Shame to lose the battery backup, which I gather the older installs had, but he won't be using the land line so will still have mobile access should the power or fttp have issues.

 

[Caged]

There could be lots of reasons and we will never know, getting the units with the battery removed means nobody is going to be calling in a fault with OR when the batteries wear out. It's also possible that they swapped you to an ONT with a 2.5Gb port on so you're ready for the >1Gb services