so after years of waiting im finnally getting fiber internet, i live in edmonton, and my condo board finally got their stuff together. fiber is being installed later this week and im really excited about it. but i have some questions i'd like to ask:
background:
I'm planning to use my own router, Opnsense firewall. and because of where they are installing fiber and where my computer equipment is, i wanna try and keep things minimal. i don't want their large fiber router/ont combo box (i seen some pictures of it) sitting in my living room with none of my computer equipment being there with it, and highly doubt they will be able to wire fiber into my basement from the front of my townhouse, because my house sits on a hill, and the basement is underground, and the way shaw drilled many years ago is just terrible.
i bought my own equipment, but i wanna make sure what i bought makes sense, I'm future proofing for 2.5gbps service when that becomes available.
The Plan:
so telus connects a customer to their head office via gpon ont right? and they only deal in nokia and actiontec products for customer premises from what i heard, but i could be wrong. so i bought a NOKIA G-010S-A 3FE46541AA GPON ONT SFP Fiber Module Transceiver from an ebay seller based in British Columbia,
based on my research its the same one that telus uses right? then i decided i needed a sfp fiber slot to plug that into.....but upon further research the transceiver does not work with most fiber pcie NICs due to a ground wire issue or protocols or something like that.
so i bought SFP to SFP media converter that supports 2.5gbps that supposedly is protocol transparent(i heard these work well) and a secondary rj45 10G base-t sfp transceiver with 2.5g support. essentially my plan is to plug in the rj45 SFP transceiver into 1 of the 2 sfp slots on the media converter and the nokia gpon ont sfp module to the second sfp slot on the media converter and connect the cables per usual.
then the rj45 cat 6 cable will extend from upstairs to the basement to my 2.5gbe router. What i'm wondering is Will this work or did i set myself up to fail?
i will appreciate any advice you guys have. i literally knew nothing about fiber hardware 2 days ago, just wanna make sure i do things correctly! I wanna keep things minimal as well as i said before.
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