Ditching BT ONT FTTP

It's an Openreach ONT rather than BT. The ONT has a serial number which is registered and used to activate the service so a different ONT wouldn't work.
 
Someone on TBB has cloned the serial from an Openreach supplied 4 port Huawei ONT to a different Huawei ONT, I’m not sure how the Openreach systems would react if you connect an ONT that they can’t manage.

You won’t gain anything from doing this anyway.
 
Yeah as above... the ONT is OR kit not BT

Regardless of which supplier you use it'd come thru the ONT

What are you hoping to achieve by removing the ONT from any setup?
 
If you want a different ONT, pay up your contract with BT and get someone else, that is not reselling Openreach, to put a line in for you, that terminates in an optical fibre SFP if that’s what you want.

It staggers me that people seem to think they can sign contracts with suppliers then effectively interfere with the suppliers equipment and not face penalties.

When this goes wrong, and it’s page 9 of my Big Book of Networking Recipes for Disaster, then they’ll make you pay full whack for the engineers time to put it right and highly likely you’ll go on their naughty list. Plus you’ll kill your broadband until they can be bothered to fix it.
 
WJA96 said:
If you want a different ONT, pay up your contract with BT and get someone else, that is not reselling Openreach, to put a line in for you, that terminates in an optical fibre SFP if that’s what you want.

It staggers me that people seem to think they can sign contracts with suppliers then effectively interfere with the suppliers equipment and not face penalties.

When this goes wrong, and it’s page 9 of my Big Book of Networking Recipes for Disaster, then they’ll make you pay full whack for the engineers time to put it right and highly likely you’ll go on their naughty list. Plus you’ll kill your broadband until they can be bothered to fix it.
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So who’s doing that in the Uk. None that I know of.
 
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You tell me. One went black, one just don’t light up and the other doesn’t do anything
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How the f would us remote internet people know? It's in your physical possession :cry:

Sounds like user-end error to me, maybe not you personally - could it be an electrical problem in your home or plug socket/circuit maybe? Or even possibly surge or bad wiring to the socket?

I've never even heard of an ONT dying, let alone calling it a very rare event... Obviously it can happen, just seems very bizarre you've had 3 that are apparently faulty/DOA.
 
Sparx said:
How the f would us remote internet people know? It's in your physical possession :cry:

Sounds like user-end error to me, maybe not you personally - could it be an electrical problem in your home or plug socket/circuit maybe? Or even possibly surge or bad wiring to the socket?

I've never even heard of an ONT dying, let alone calling it a very rare event... Obviously it can happen, just seems very bizarre you've had 3 that are apparently faulty/DOA.
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New build. It was checked as a result. Everything checked out fine. The only thing the wasn’t changed until the 3rd was the hub and no other wired device was fitted. Just the ONT. BT says the hub had a fault which took out the ONT but I doubt.

House is powered via a Tesla Power Walls, 6 of them in total.
 
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So who’s doing that in the Uk. None that I know of.
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If you rent dark fibre into a datacentre then you can put whatever optics you want on it.

I would expect Openreach to offer an SFP option instead of an ONT at some point in the future once the market has shifted to the point where routers with SFP slots are cheap enough for ISPs to be deploying, but I quite like the ONT as the network demarc, in the same way the FTTC modem was originally. Also it means the fibre is fixed in place and the cable flapping around and getting caught in a vacuum cleaner is an easily replaced copper patch lead.
 
I don’t really see what could go wrong in an ONT. It’s basically a fibre to RJ45 conversion (which is what the OP wants to replace it with) but with a power source to make the lights go on.

Given that the PSU on a OR ONT puts out 12V it’s hard to see how it’s frying any electrics. Even if it was the battery backed unit it’s still putting out 12V.
 
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