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Re:Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet by hedora on Thursday May 25, 2023 @09:19PM (#36078604)
Do they let you plug your own router into their equipment though?

Their FTTN stuff definitely would only work with a router that somehow managed to break third party NAT, even in when running in its bypass mode.

(Out of 7 ISPs at over a dozen sites, this is the only time I have had this issue. Support couldn’t diagnose the issue.)

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Re:Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet by zamadatix on Thursday May 25, 2023 @09:41PM (#36078732)
Not officially, which is part of that $20 to just not deal with them. Officially, the "passthrough" mode works fine with 3rd party NAT but their all-in-one ONT/router still conntracks everything anyways and only has an 8,192 entry table.
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Re:Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet by hedora on Thursday May 25, 2023 @10:01PM (#36078869)
In that case, they are significantly better than in the past.

That’s still so bad I think they should lose their right of way agreements for not providing service, but it is slightly better than before.

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Re:Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet by csdvrx on Friday May 26, 2023 @01:02AM (#36080170)
> The only way around that is via unofficial means

Can you explain what to do exactly if you have a Solarflare and a fiber module?

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Re:Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet by zamadatix on Friday May 26, 2023 @01:49PM (#36087453)
You grab your own 10G-PON ONT box like the Azores WAG-D20 which lets you set the MAC and ONT values to the same as the ATT one. Works pretty good, only complaint I have is there aren't any "ONT on a stick" (i.e. SFP+ module ONTs) that let you do that last part so it's still a box with a separate power supply adapter.
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