Deutsche Telekom - Glasferausbau

[Patrick M. Hausen]

I just bought three of those to get Gigabit speed to my wife's and my desk over telephone wire. They work splendidly and are transparent to 802.1q so you can connect trunk ports of two switches.

https://www.gigacopper.net/wp/heimvernetzung/

Should you need to bridge some distance from the optical outlet to your OPNsense. "Nail" the ONT to the wall near the outlet, go with a single pair of copper from there.

[nero355]

Deutsche Telekom does not give you a free ONT. You have to buy or rent one.

Can you choose a different ISP that operates on their network and get one that way ??

Really? Interesting. Both M-Net and Deutsche Glasfaser give you one.

We have something really weird here in The Netherlands on the Delta Fiber Network :
- Choose Delta as ISP and you don't get a Nokia 010 ONT and get a Nokia "All-in-One" model instead.
- Choose any other ISP that operates on their network and you get the Nokia 010 ONT and a seperate Router from ZyXel.
And that Nokia 010 ONT has a huge DELTA sticker on it !!! LOL !!!

Either way, they are dirt cheap (30-50€). I just bought an LXT-010H-D from wisp.pl and that also has 2.5 Gbps.

Over here most people buy either a Huawei ONT or Nokia ONT for XGS-PON connections like this one : https://www.wisp.pl/p12211,huawei-optixstar-en8010ts-20-terminal-xgs-pon-ont.html
_{(Sometimes from the very same webshop by the way!)}

Usually not very cheap and the availability is not that great either...

[meyergru]

XGS-PON ONT prices are a lot higher than GPON ONTs. They often draw a lot more power, as well. As long as you do not have a rate > 1 Gbps, you can use a GPON ONT, because XGS-PON is mostly downwards-compatible. In Germany, there are only a few ISPs who already offer XGS-PON - we sometimes use to call it "digital diashora".

In theory, one could have up to 2.5 Gbps downstream over plain GPON, BTW.

[Maurice]

Can you choose a different ISP that operates on their network and get one that way ?

Sure. Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, o2, 1&1 will happily sell you the very same ONT with a slightly customized enclosure and their own logo slapped on it. :)

https://hack-gpon.org/ont-sercomm-fg1000b/#other-brand-names

As long as you do not have a rate > 1 Gbps, you can use a GPON ONT, because XGS-PON is mostly downwards-compatible.

A GPON ONT can't talk to an XGS-PON OLT, they even use different wavelengths.