Community Fibre

PON involves handshaking with the providers' OLT where things like encryption and timings are negotiated, as well as the data rates.

If you wanted to swap the supplied Adtran ONT out for something else you'd need to find an XGS-PON SFP+ module and have a way of cloning the serial number and any certificates or other configuration out of the Adtran device.
 
Caged said:
PON involves handshaking with the providers' OLT where things like encryption and timings are negotiated, as well as the data rates.

If you wanted to swap the supplied Adtran ONT out for something else you'd need to find an XGS-PON SFP+ module and have a way of cloning the serial number and any certificates or other configuration out of the Adtran device.
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ahh right ok i did not know that. Thanks
 
There's always going to be some kind of modem to convert the connection and delineate your end. I used to hate having a separate modem and router, but since I've had the Virgin Superhub 3, I've found it's a must to have your own features.

The ASUS routers with Merlin firmware allows you to run SSH and connect to the router to do a wired speedtest which is handy for troubleshooting slow speeds such as those on fibre.

However they are slowly becoming outpaced by the connection speeds I'm finding, but that's another topic.
 
Gift that keeps on giving. Looks like I have another £100 voucher on the way from a referral :D.

Edit - on the flip side, they've just emailed to say they're increasing their costs. Expected and it's an extra £3.25 a month which is fine.
 
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How good are the Linksys Velop routers?

Currently with VM but use my own Eero routers have 3 of them. I think I read these would not work with community fibre. I don't mind removing them to be honest, providing the velops offers a strong and stable connection.


Also where does the connection outdoors come from, is it the phone line pole or from the street cabinet? when its rolled out in my area, I would like the cable to run down the side of the house and into the central room hopefully.
 
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Caged said:
Where did you read that an Eero wouldn't work with Community Fibre? As far as I can tell that information is wrong.
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Can’t remember now, so the velop can be put into modem mode?

It sounds like there is a separate modem with community fibre so it all seems a bit messy if I have eero setup.

I’m not worried about removing eero altogether providing the velop is decent.

Also can these Linksys velop be setup as wired backhaul?
 
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You plug the Adtran ONT that Community Fibre provide into the Eero, and tell it your internet connection uses DHCP. Leave the Velop in the box.
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Ok cool, that would be ideal, so with this setup, in future I could connect a different router/mesh setup to the modem they supply, as one day I would likely swap out the Eero for something newer.

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I found a post that mentioned someone with community fibre and Eero mesh, and they said there Eero mesh network would not work when connected directly to the modem.
 
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Are you going to link to the post or what? I manage a client with a CF connection, it's DHCP, you just plug whatever you want into it. Not sure what else I can say.
 
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I never used the velop. As soon as they left I unplugged it and packed it away. I simply plugged the adtran box into my then USG and toggled it to DHCP. It worked straight away. When I switched to a Mikrotik RB5009 a few weeks back, I did exactly the same. DHCP on the WAN no problem.
 
beachBOYken said:
Can’t remember now, so the velop can be put into modem mode?

It sounds like there is a separate modem with community fibre so it all seems a bit messy if I have eero setup.

I’m not worried about removing eero altogether providing the velop is decent.

Also can these Linksys velop be setup as wired backhaul?
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In the last page or two i had discussed this with others in this thread about the sperate modem and router that they provided as well as pictures
 
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Its only a Reddit post but here you go.

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It's wrong, CF doesn't only work with the Velop router, they cache the MAC address of the router that is connected though. If you unplug the Velop and phone their technical support they can delete the cached MAC address so that the Eero will work. Or just don't let the engineer connect the Velop in the first place.
 
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It's wrong, CF doesn't only work with the Velop router, they cache the MAC address of the router that is connected though. If you unplug the Velop and phone their technical support they can delete the cached MAC address so that the Eero will work. Or just don't let the engineer connect the Velop in the first place.
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Thanks, actually someone else just confirmed eero works, and the engineer installed the velop initially, he just unplugged it and connected the eero up.
 
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