Got fiber installed today. Technically. Officially I am still on REELTIME plans as far as excitel is concerned. But I have fiber till home. The old ethernet connection is still in place and active (just not connected to my
router, as a fallback maybe).
The initial ONU stopped working soon after install. I couldn't get the exact name and make of it. It was white and unmarked and just one lan port. It kept flashing
EPON led in red continuously(EPON led was the 2nd led from right, last one was lan I believe). It was setup to bridge by default I guess. It worked for some time, its lan connected to my router and it worked for some time. But then it started flashing EPON led in red and couldn't get it to work again.
They installed a much larger ONU, it has 4 lan ports, one EPON input, full metal body. (Installing guy said this is used to supply 4 different connections, ?for a 2lowerx2upper apartment setup and split?4 separate bridge mode input on one fiber?)
I tried to directly connect to it to my
laptop. Couldn't get anything on laptop, no gateway or local ip assigned. Didn't try direct PPPoE dialup.
Maybe setup to be bridge by default.
UT STARCOM ONU 204i-h
They also installed the fiber looping/spliced-safe black box inside the home itself. (It takes in the much thicker and shielded black fiber wire coming from outside and the connected it to a yellow, much smaller fiber wire that goes into the ONU)
Wire coming from their interconnect box
Wire details
Splicing/Arcing? machine- it welded the fibers of the two different fiber wires (black and yellow)
The interchange/looping/welded/converted fiber black box seen here next to the splicing machine. They carefully places the welded joint (and put something like a heat shrink wrap too) in the black box and it has grooves to arrange to thin and exposed fiber.