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FTTH & GPON
This area in Central Oregon now has FTTH and the ONT on my house is by Calix. There is a 722GE inside the ONT. I'm subscribed to just 100mbps and don't need speed. No TV, no phone. CAT5 brings intern...
The MAC address on the box is the same as the one on the bottom of the R7000P router. Which begs the question as to how would all customers know to look into the config and give the ISP the correct MAC address. Which is the correct one? This older medicare crowd can't handle a smartphone let alone play with the config on a router.
Not being able to see the ISP side; can the ISP see the MAC address? They surely can see their own ONT.............and from there see the router? In my other Netgear routers I can see the MAC address of every device connected and those trying to connect! Thus Access Control.
The ISP doesn't offer support for the customer's equipment, which I understand. But.....................................
WishIknew wrote:The MAC address on the box is the same as the one on the bottom of the R7000P router. Which begs the question as to how would all customers know to look into the config and give the ISP the correct MAC address. Which is the correct one?
The "easy" way would be to read the WAN/Internet adapter MAC address from the carrier supplied CPE.
If your ISP does allow you to send them your own router MAC address, it's on Advanced / Advanced Home -> Internet Port
WishIknew wrote:Not being able to see the ISP side; can the ISP see the MAC address? They surely can see their own ONT.............and from there see the router?
Of course, they can. For example on a cable modem (the WAN/Internet connection is a simple Ethernet link). In the case of PON, GPON, XG-PON (all make use of a shared fiber with many more customers) the ONT does create kind of a virtual L2 link for each customer - thus they can see again the MAC like you can see the local attached devices on their PON switches.
WishIknew wrote:In my other Netgear routers I can see the MAC address of every device connected and those trying to connect! Thus Access Control.
No idea what home users is riding to add a MAC based white list aka. Access Control - it's tedious, it's a pain in the back, and last but not least it became kind of obsolete because more and more devices use random MAC addresses out of the box for "privacy" reasons by default for new connections. So even more tedious to manage one more detail on each connected client. I hope you know the people having access (physical or wireless LAN)...
WishIknew wrote:The ISP doesn't offer support for the customer's equipment, which I understand. But.....................................
....but they don't prohibit it - be happy!