On 3/24/23 08:51, Polarian wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 23/03/2023 19:44, Kaya Saman wrote:
>> The ISP has not given me any information on connection type or even
>> settings yet so I'm still quite in the dark with this and I'm still
>> trying to get a hold of someone who actually can provide that
>> information. Right now I'm basing what I have read in the Nokia
>> models manual.
>
> I am sorry to say this, but you can not guess your credentials, most
> ISPs do not permit custom routers, as it infringes on their TOS and
> also they are not able to track you. A lot of the filtering and port
> control is actually done by the router, I know a few ISPs which do
> this, the reason for it I assume is so that they do not waste their
> server resources filtering traffic, they use the router in your home.
>
> You will need to switch to a transparent ISP, they will openly tell
> you the protocol they use for authentication, I believe there is a
> few, but my ISP uses PPPoE, they will then tell you the authentication
> method (if it is PPPoE), username and password. You then need to use
> pppoe interface, you can use man to figure this one out, it is not
> complicated (because I was able to do it :P).
>
> As for fibre cables, you will still need an ONT, this is often
> provided by your ISP. If you want to make your own ONT that is more
> complicated, as you would need to find software which can convert the
> signals, and also the hardware which supports it, can I highlight that
> the cisco gear is proprietary, although would support this.
Software to convert the signals?? Isn't the signal conversion done at
the hardware level by use of a transceiver and network card? - adding
another Cisco box into my setup won't make much of a difference if I
need to go that route... what's 1 more when you have around 15 anyway lol
Though I need to switch over from the 15 year old N-draft WLC to a Wifi
gen6. Ruckus system at some point. I actually really dislike the Cisco
wireless model of the need to upgrade both controller and AP a the same
time grrrr
As for the authentication... normally that is given to you once the
account has been provisioned and gone online; that's fine. I'm more
concerned about the settings... but as I wrote in my previous response
to Stu that "sales" has now confirmed that it's PPPoE, so I just need to
figure out if they're using CHAPv2 or PAP. Probably not much will even
need to change on my side if they're using CHAPv2 as I just will need to
swap the current credentials out with their provided ones and let the
kernel and system stack do the rest.
Right now I have 6 months burn in period anyway, so I'm going to see if
the low upstream data rate will work or if I need to upgrade to a medium
business package to get the synchronous rates that are not available on
the small business packages. Unfortunately it means higher cost but what
can you do :-(
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