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alexps

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#288353 23-Jun-2021 11:37
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Hello all.

 

Beginning the fibre journey. Goodbye Vodafone & your weird proprietary kit that only gave me 10% of the speeds I ever paid for except for that hour once at 3am on a Tuesday. I'm in Welly so Hyperfibre is theoretically available & am keen to do this just once for future-proofing where possible.

 

Have been reading here about the Chorus default Nokia G-140W-C with its exciting range of 10/100/1000M Ethernet ports that won't get me any faster than 1Gb. Chorus man told me this is the default installation & no other options are available. I'm guessing this is not true.

 

- Has anyone has future-proofed by paying for an ONT that can deliver more than 1Gb (I will be wiring with cat 6A)

 

- Is the fibre installation the same up until the ONT or do I need to ask Chorus to do something differently?

 

- What does the $250 ONT upgrade get you - I presume its a 10Gb port but wondered which ONT do they install instead?

 

Sorry for the dumb questions but an hour of Google has provided no answers (neither did 15 mins with the Chorus install man).

 

Thanks

 

Alex

 

 


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  #2733061 23-Jun-2021 11:55
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alexps:

 

Thanks.

 

Do you know what it actually is? ('Model 400' is presumably deliberately vague on Chorus' part)

 

Presumably then the Chorus man is incorrect - I do have to pay Chorus extra to install this as the ONT?

 

 

Nokia XS-250WX-A ONT.
Doesn't matter really what the model is as you have no access to do anything with it.

You will have to subscribe to Hyperfibre from an RSP that provides this which is bascially Orcon and pay them the installation fee. They will organise this with Chorus. You cannot request an install or upgrade of the ONT if you not subscribed to Hyperfibre. Nothing wrong with the current ONT's for 1Gbps.

When you ready for Hyperfibre then simply request a plan change which will provide 2 Gbps+ but your network has to be setup to support this else its basically pointless.





-- opinions expressed by me are solely my own. ie - personal


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