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saltthefries OP t1_iret9ez wrote

Reply to comment by pinteresque in More fiber optic internet availability in Lowell by saltthefries

This is real fiber / FiOS. A nice tech named Frank from Verizon drilled a hole in the wall, ran a small piece of fiber through the wall, set up a fiber optic jack, connected it to an optical network terminator in my office and I plugged my router into the ethernet jack. I'm getting IPv4 and IPv6 via DHCP (no need for PPPoE like some other fiber networks I've used).

If you get service, make sure you have a reliable power source for the optical network terminator... you don't want it on a light switch.

The optical network terminator (ONT) is pretty small- about the same size as a cable modem.

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pinteresque t1_irgmu2s wrote

Awesome. Appreciate the detail, that's exactly what I was looking for.

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