TELUS fibre (FTTH)

[arcticcat522]

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Nothing's underground in my mid-50's community.

You also will have overhead power/telus/shaw.

When did they switch from overhead to underground? Im mid 60's community and have overhead.

[rage2]

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You also will have overhead power/telus/shaw.

When did they switch from overhead to underground? Im mid 60's community and have overhead.

Communities started around the start of 90s went underground.

[Buster]

I've heard reports that you can get Telus to terminate the fiber right at your router if you have an SFP connection...skipping the ONT and their other hardware.

Any validity to this?

[The Cosworth]

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So Telus sent me a letter saying they are doing Fibre installs in my area...which makes me happy.

I assume if all of the lines are buried in my community, they won't be hanging fibre everywhere now?

I have some experience on this, I'll send you my email and I can look at your place roughly. I won't know the exact plans but I can give you some info.

[ExtraSlow]

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I've heard reports that you can get Telus to terminate the fiber right at your router if you have an SFP connection...skipping the ONT and their other hardware.

Any validity to this?

Is there a big benefit to this?

[Buster]

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Is there a big benefit to this?

probably not. I just like to mainline whatever I can - heroin, internet, etc.

[The_Rural_Juror]

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Is there a big benefit to this?

I couldn't find a benefit to this.

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probably not. I just like to mainline whatever I can - heroin, internet, etc.

FTTH allows you to harness the dark energy of the universe. You have never felt such power.

[ExtraSlow]

I'm just happy with my 165/165 that I seem to get 25/7/365. I won't fornicate about with these adjustments.

[The_Rural_Juror]

but your folding...

[ExtraSlow]

The bottleneck is not the speed of my internet connection.

[killramos]

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I've heard reports that you can get Telus to terminate the fiber right at your router if you have an SFP connection...skipping the ONT and their other hardware.

Any validity to this?

My understanding is yes you can do it, no Telus doesn’t support it, and yes it’s reletively complicated.

But let me know what you come up with because I’m quite interested as well.

I am extra fucked because I have optik tv to manage as well, which again theoretically Unifi can manage but its not straightforward.

[Buster]

I haven't had TV service in 5 years. Sonarr.

[killramos]

It was nearly free considering it covers my Netflix premium and crave subscription. Net of those I’m paying 23 dollars a month for all sports channels and standard cable channels. I can’t subscribe to all the sports streaming services I would want for less than that.

It’s essentially just there for sports, which hasn’t been a great investment this year lol.

[Buster]

When I switch to Telus, I will take a look at the TV package.

I suppose that's a good time to look at switching my cell phone as well.

[The_Rural_Juror]

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The bottleneck is not the speed of my internet connection.

You need a better toaster.

[cyra1ax]

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I am extra fucked because I have optik tv to manage as well, which again theoretically Unifi can manage but its not straightforward.

Not really what you're asking, but I had Telus bridge the modem which went into my Edgerouter, while they used the coax port and MoCA for Optik-apparently they set up two networks to accomodate this. Can't really do that if you're going to bypass the ONT and stuff but thought I would share.

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When I switch to Telus, I will take a look at the TV package.

I suppose that's a good time to look at switching my cell phone as well.

Depending on who you work for, you might qualify for Telus EPP which gets you sorta discounted plans & phones, and an additional discount on home services($15 iirc).

[killramos]

Yea I have port 1 bridged on my Telus Modem which I run my network off of and port 2 is used for optik.

Theoretically if I bypassed the ONT into a USG I could do the same thing and run a separate LAN from the USG for optik. But there is some trickery involved to make it work.

[Buster]

So when you have optik you get more than 1gb to your house?

[killramos]

Hard to say because I don’t pay for gigabit. But presumably yea?

I don’t think there is any physical reason why Telus can’t offer higher than gigabit on their FTTH

[Buster]

I mean does optik suck up some of your bandwidth if you use it?