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[-] mlg@lemmy.world 55 points 9 months ago

That rounded white box is a POS At&T locked down fiber modem/router which they patch biweekly at 3am without your control because they don't want people hacking their devices to change the DNS server or anything useful.

It wouldn't be a problem if AT&T let you use your own fiber ONT but they don't which is technically illegal but no one has sued them yet because they are a billion dollar company.

Thankfully the workaround is to grab a supported ONT, upgrade to 2.5g or higher fiber speeds so they are forced to use XGS-PON, then swap in your ONT with some cloned IDs and downgrade back to whatever plan you want. This all allegedly works because businesses that use AT&T as their ISP also don't want to pay money for a proprietary piece of junk, and they have enough power to throw around to demand AT&T allow them to use their own fiber hardware.

[-] Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

I love having Google Fiber, they gave me a modem with one open RJ-45 port and said "have fun with the other side of this network".

[-] Pazuzu@midwest.social 2 points 9 months ago

Google fiber still exists? Huh, I figured that would be another good project they kill off after a year or two

[-] Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

It's only in certain areas, I live in Seattle and it's in Seattle but not everywhere in Seattle.

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