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Hack GPON – how to access, change and edit fibre ONTs

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250 points pabs3 | 1 comments | 25 Sep 24 00:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.313s | source
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bigfatfrock ◴[25 Sep 24 13:14 UTC] No.41647144[source]▶
I can only pray this births a ddwrt equivalent for fiber ONTs.

I’m caretaking for my parents who are on ATT fiber with their giant scary black box ONT, and am consistently paranoid of what it is attempting or is doing on their network. This would be a great way to gain more transparency in its operation and possibly open useful features.

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1. somat ◴[25 Sep 24 14:23 UTC] No.41647880[source]▶
The ont should not be on their network.

The normal state of affairs is

                          demarcation point
                    isp network | your network
        ---[fiber]---(ont)===[copper]===(router)===(wifi ap)
Now having laid out that nice neat little diagram, this is the real world Things are messy, there is a real desire to consolidate boxes. If your network looks like below, My condolences, it sucks when you don't know where the demarcation point is. And I agree, In those cases it should probably be demarcated at the fiber line coming in.

                Demarcation point
                ?      ?         ?
    ---[fiber]---(ont/router/ap)***[2.4GHz]***