Ditching BT ONT FTTP

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Has anyone got BT FTTP and ditched the ONT to directly link the fibre into a custom router say Pfsense via a GPON SFP ONU ONT Modem Fiber Glasfaser 2.5G. I’ve seen it done with other ISP’s in the US and EU.

No log in needed, gets a public IP and away you go.

 

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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.

TBB? Got a link please.

 

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Okay everyone’s getting nickers in a twist. Remember you got through a pandemic.

So OR not BT. What ever

Why, I’m on my 3rd one as they have failed. I want to make a neater install. Gain a power socket back. Looking to go pfsense perhaps so everything is all in one.

 

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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.

So who’s doing that in the Uk. None that I know of.

 

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Curious, how did your 3 ONTs 'fail' exactly?

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

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.

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.