TELUS fibre (FTTH)

[ExtraSlow]

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

No it does not. I pay for 150 and I get 165/165 even when someone is watching tv and the set-top box is recording simultaneously.

[killramos]

I think that was only an issue when optik was running on copper and the system couldn’t actually handle the extra bandwidth.

The 10-15 mbps optik takes was a big deal at 50-75mbps copper, not so much at 300+

[benyl]

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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.

Why? I think I mentioned this before.

TELUS gave me a dgs-1005g and splits the network right after the modem. My USG connects into the switch and mainlines the IP direct from TELUS. The other port goes to the telus router for Optik (when I had optik). No need to hop through the TELUS router.

[killramos]

So you jut have a switch on the tower side of the ONT to split the network?

Can the ONT handle the upstream NAT and DHCP to split this?

[benyl]

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So you jut have a switch on the tower side of the ONT to split the network?

Can the ONT handle the upstream NAT and DHCP to split this?

[Buster]

I thought the telus modem was just meant to provide wifi? Can't Telus just split the signal after the ONT to optik+LAN?

[killramos]

I mean that’s effectively what my gateway is doing. Gateway also talks to my wireless optik box.

[Buster]

Okay, so it sounds like I can connect the Nokia GPON SFP directly into my new UDM Pro, bypassing the ONT and the telus hardware. I can then setup the UDM Pro for multicasting to get the Optik side of things running. I think (???) I can then just plug the Optik PVR into the routers switch (or maybe my main switch) and run ethernet to each of the TV locations to have optik working.

Question is if I need to use the wireless TV boxes I'm not sure how I would use them? I think Telus supplies you with an AP if you ask, so I guess I would just have another wife floating through the house that is used exclusively by the Telus optik boxes?

[killramos]

Yup. I have heard it isn’t straight forward though.

Is your SFP line in the right location?

[Buster]

They are just doing the community now. So I will get the guys to run the fiber to my initial optimal location

[killramos]

Cool. Keep my posted as I’m interested in doing the same thing.

I need to run my fibre at least 10 feet from where it currently is to my current proposed ideal location if I want to do this.

But that’s currently small potatoes considering I need to do all my wiring throughout the houses still.

[ExtraSlow]

Those Telus set-top boxes don't have to be wireless. You can run em hardwired. Seems like that's worth doing if you are being anal about all the other stuff.

[The_Rural_Juror]

My Optik tech insisted on putting the farthest satellite set top box on wireless and the closest box wired. I have no idea why.

[killramos]

Your optik experience will definitely be a million times better wired.

[ExtraSlow]

Yes, our wireless set top box is flaky.

[Buster]

Do you think it would benefit to have the optik hardware on its own vlan - assuming that I can get it all working through my switch rather than Telus hardware?

[benyl]

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Do you think it would benefit to have the optik hardware on its own vlan - assuming that I can get it all working through my switch rather than Telus hardware?

The reason I ended up with Optik on it's own network was back when TELUS 75 was the fastest speed, I was experiencing contention. I don't know if it was the TELUS router that was bogging down or something else.

I dropped Optik when I got 150 but kept my setup with two networks. My XBOX is the only thing that runs on the TELUS router.

[Buster]

I'm not sold on Optik yet. We haven't had TV in 5 years, and I don't miss it with a good plex server and Sonarr. I do use my dad's login for TSN and Sportsnet, so that helps.

As for fibre: the point of entry into my house for all of the utilities is not my main utility room, which is in the middle of my basement floorplan, not along an exterior wall. When the fibre comes to your house, is there a termination that they then route internally with a separate cable to where your equipment is?

[ExtraSlow]

They can located the Telus equipment kind of anywhere. In my house, the glass comes to my basement beside the breaker panel, then copper to my main floor office, then Telus modem, and optik wifi router and my asus wifi router.

[Buster]

Right, but I want them to locate the ONT at my rack as per discussion above.