On Thu, 03 Nov 2016 09:11:05 Ian Stewart wrote:
I'm using a copper/ADSL/wifi broadband. I recently visited someone who had just had fibre installed and I was a little puzzled with one aspect of the install.
He had a copper/ADSL/wifi modem. After the conversion to fibre his modem was discarded.
For the conversion to fibre he was shipped two modems. One is a fibre modem with 4 x LAN ports and no wifi, the other is an ADSL modem with 4 x LAN ports (one is an up-link) and it has wifi.
The fibre from the street comes into the fibre modem. There is a link via ethernet cable to the ADSL modems up-link port. The ADSL modem is setup with its modem disabled, and it provides the wifi as well as routing to its 3 x LAN ports.
To me it makes more sense to have just one fibre modem which includes wifi and also has 4 x LAN ports.
Anyone know the reason why they ship two modems?
Is this standard? Are all the ISP's shipping the two modem solution?
My guess is that they get the fibre modems without wifi cheaply, and they are already stuck with 1000's of ADSL modems in their inventory, so this helps clear their stock. Anyone got another theory?
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it must be a duck. Nope. The first device connected to the fibre is an Optical Network Terminal. Basically, it's like a modem, it converts one kind of signal into another kind of signal, flashes of light on a fibre to current in a copper wire and vice versa. That's all it does. Typically only one of the RJ45 ports is active and the device does not contain a switch. https://q.chorus.co.nz/ont A router it aint. The ONT is the property of Chorus. Not the ISP. You can plug one device into the ONT. If you only have one computer, you can plug it into the ONT and you will have internet. But you couldn't plug a switch into the ONT and two computers into the switch, it wont work, because the ONT doesn't route. If you want to connect more than one device, you need a router. Wayne