Ghasworx

Internet service providers (ISP) usually provide their own custom optical network terminals/units (ONT/ONU) to their Fiber to home (FTTH) subscribers. These ONT units sometimes are only dridge devices and other times are routers (very basic routers) with builtin ONT. What happens when you require to have your own router with advanced features like port forwarding, DDNS, network automation, private cloud hosting, media center, etc... almost guaranteed that ISP custom routers will never provide (atleast with my ISP) plus the fiber will be connected directly to your router? Embrace the PON stick. Where I live the tech used is Gigabit passive optical network (GPON), so I went for a GPON SFP stick since my router has an SFP port. These sticks running embedded linux to configure these modules. When plugged in to the router, these sticks come preconfigured with an IP address (provided by the seller/manufacturer) that can be accessed through a web interface/telent/ssh. Note: PON stick and ...