I recently had FTTP installed (UK - YouFibre) which came with its own router connected to the newly installed ONT.

Previously I was on Virgin Media, using their router on modem-only mode and connected to my Google Nest Wifi.

Despite the engineer telling me I had to go through the supplied YouFibre router first, on a whim I switched the Google wifi from the Virgin router directly into the Ethernet port on the ONT. I was pleasantly surprised to find it worked immediately without any additional configuration.

This is great - one less device plugged in etc. but I wonder if there is anything I should be aware of in doing this?

Am I just being paranoid?

  • OnlyTilt@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    In Canada there were a few good years when Telus gave us fiber internet through a Nokia GPON ONT SFP+ module, which we could plug directly into a SFP+ router and ignore all of the ISP equipment, thoses were the days, now they moved to XGS-PON and we have to user their network hub since the XGS-PON module doesnt have onboard registration hardware :(