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Re:Starting Sunday, cable companies can no longer ‘rent’ you... by yumraj on Sunday December 20, 2020 @03:18PM (#25489183)
A question for those in the know, can I not just take the SFP plug that plugs into my AT&T gateway/routr and plug it into an EdgeRouter with a SFP port?

I thought SFP is the one doing all fiber-to-ethernet conversion, so would that work?

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Re:Starting Sunday, cable companies can no longer ‘rent’ you... by gen3 on Sunday December 20, 2020 @03:43PM (#25489352)
You cannot. The router AT&T provides authenticates the connection. What you could do is run your own router with a copied MAC that forwards the auth and keep alive packets. Here is a guide for OpenWRT. https://pyther.net/2020/05/03/bypass-att-gateway-openwrt.htm...
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