Centrally located in your home if possible as that’s how your wifi works best close to data-hungry devices like televisions, stereos and home servers Of course the van supplier will allow me to do a test now and then which will shows that indeed the engine runs at 500mph and I’ll feel good. Then I’ll take the kid to school at 50mph feeling good that someday it might be 500mph. If you already have an ONT installed in your property, it means it’ll be much easier for you to get on a fast and reliable broadband service. You can learn about the process to do that here.

I don't know the size of the round barrel plug. It looked like 5.5mm outer diameter but the barrel was also half insulated along its barrel length. The hole through the centre of the plug might be common size: 2.1 or 2.5mm? The ONT– Optical Network Terminal (also known as the modem) is connected to the Termination Point (TP) via an optical fiber cable. Using an Ethernet cable, it connects to your router and converts light signals from your TP’s fiber optic line into electronic signals that your router can understand. I should maybe have had the presence of mind to label that post with each of the jargon terms (much like you labelled yours with ONT). It’s like buying a Formula 1 Van to do the school run, of course it will go the stated speed of 500mph or whatever but the local quality of roads don’t allow it etc etc.

Not sure why the alternative has to be something PoE capable. The existing has worked fine for a few hundred thousand installs. Something for consideration in the future as I’ve said but I can’t see either SFP or wires-only being a thing unless plugging the fibre into an Openreach approved router that they are able to provision. Many other territories already work on the basis you have an ONT and router combined and you plug it in yourself. Some alt-nets in the UK also provide self-install, even as far as running a length of fibre cable across your garden from the connection point into your house. You must always plug your Hub into the Openreach modem port PORT 1. If you're connected to PORT 1 but have no internet connection, try plugging the Ethernet cable (red ends) into the next one along. After a few minutes a blue light will show your Hub is ready. Installations of Openreach’s ( BT) Fibre-to-the-Premises ( FTTP) based UK ultrafast broadband ISP technology will soon begin seeing a new Optical Network Unit (ONT), which is not only very compact (pictured top) but also comes in at a third of the cost of the existing unit. Obviously they’ve sacrificed a few little things.

Traditional cable internet uses coaxial cables to send electrical data signals to your cable modem, which in turn connects to your router. Your router then sends a Wi-Fi signal throughout your home. In some cases, homes with cable internet have combination modem-routers (or gateways) that serve both functions. Your Openreach Optical Network Terminator (ONT) needs to remain fixed to the wall or skirting as the thin green fibre optic cable can be delicate. Please be careful when cleaning around it and make sure everyone knows not to tamper with it. You need to ensure the mains plug remains connected whenever people are likely to need access to broadband. Unplugging the mains will cut off broadband immediately but inserting the plug again will restore normal speeds within a few minutes. Each of the ONT models works in a similar way. The main difference is the latest model 400, offers wifi capability while the Hyperfibre ONT is what’s used to provide people using Hyperfibre broadband services with lightning-fast internet speeds. fwiw, most router manufacturers like Asus, Linksys tend to use 2.1mm x 5.5mm barrel plugs for their 12v power adapters.As examples of smaller units with a just a single gig port, the Huawei EG8010 is only 83mm x 69mm x 28mm and draws only 2.5w with the Nokia 7368 ISAM ONT G-010G-Q being 89 mm x 82 mm x 27 but states >4w eg. The Nokia ONT (Model G-010G-Q), requires 12.0v DC at 0.5 Amps. Any replacement 12v DC and 0.5A or higher Amps would work as you have discovered. Polarity is probably centre pin-positive polarity. (In unlikely event it is reversed, the ONT will be toast....) I would prefer to have even a simpler OR ONT with an ethernet port which allows an Ethernet cable to link to routers, and to an ethernet switch to which to attach other devices. Ethernet, on the other hand, is a local area network access technology. So, any cable that allows connection with a system/device within a LAN can be referred to as an “ethernet cable” or “network cable.” There appears to be no distinction between network and Ethernet cables. Ethernet and LAN cables are types of network cables. 4. Can you plug the router directly into ONT? Without exception every PON installation I’ve seen in the UK has been delivered via a full fibre run inside the building with a splitter node or several in the basement or comms room.

This takes the signals and data from the fibre optic cable and converts them into a form which your Fibre Hub can use to deliver superfast broadband around your premises. Its technical name is Optical Network Termination unit (ONT). In turn, your Fibre Hub talks to devices like your computer. You're not alone in not understanding what it all means. I eventually looked up lots of the terms and made a post ("Technical Jargon") at https://community.plus.net/t5/Tech-Help-Software-Hardware-etc/Technical-Jargon/m-p/1919108/highlight... . There are too many variables that affect speed such as quality of home wiring and wifi equipment quality etc. Even BT on their community forums admit that they have now reached the point where they are offering speeds which are too fast for the majority customer in-home infrastructure to handle.This ONT will likely contain the same circuit board as Nokia’s other router/Wi-Fi combined units, just with a lot of the PCB left empty, this is standard practice these days to reduce costs, use the the same BOM where you can and just leave stuff off not required, unless it works out cheaper to produce a smaller PCB due to the cost of the PCB itself and if quantities warrant it. Common-sense says a single port is more expensive if they are only making them for BT Openreach and the rest of the world is taking more 4 port models and/or they have a standard design to reduce costs. cannot simply plug your router into ONT using a standard procedure. 5. Is ONT the same as the modem? As far as the other part goes I can’t say I’ve ever seen a PON solution where the customers / building owner provide their own pig tails between units and a fibre tray. I’ve seen point to point where this is the case and there’re an ODF in a basement with wires-only or managed router provision at the end but not where it’s PON to an SFP.