Re:Avoid ISP Routers
by jitl on Saturday February 01, 2025 @08:46PM
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Often hard to use your own stuff with fiber systems. I get AT&T fiber which is pretty good service but no way to use your own “modem” (optical network terminal). I think their gateway suffers from some kind of buffer issue which affects me even w/ “ip pass through” to my own Synology router.
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Re:Avoid ISP Routers
by WarOnPrivacy on Saturday February 01, 2025 @11:58PM
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> Often hard to use your own stuff with fiber systems.
This is the 2nd time I've heard this in this thread and it baffles me. Setting up a fiber connection is how I know I won't have to fight for control at the edge.
> I get AT&T fiber...
Okay, okay. AT&T excepting but that goes without saying. Wherever they are you want to be elsewhere.
-- The one problem I get with fiber ISPs is their refusal to run IPv6 - which causes me issues.
T-Mobile neuters IPv4 on hotspot connections and I have to bounce thru a cable endpoint to pick up IPv4 so I can connect to my fiber services.
There are ways now (as in, very recent) to bypass the ONT for AT&T, people have developed custom GPON SFP module firmware that lets you connect directly. There are also multiple ways to bypass the gateway authentication, be it extracting the certificates or doing Ethernet proxying of the authentication frames.