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#318212 27-Dec-2024 11:22
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Hi geeks. I acquired a box of ONTs left over from a massive install. Has anyone repurposed them for anything and is it even possible or are they even useful. Should just ditch them and reuse the power adapters.


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  #3324932 27-Dec-2024 11:26
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I thought ONTs were the property of the LFC.





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  #3324938 27-Dec-2024 11:29
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SubliminalHDTV:

 

 

Should just ditch them and reuse the power adapters.

 

 

 

No. You should return them to the LFC as the owner of the hardware.

 

They are no use to you.





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  #3324990 27-Dec-2024 11:52
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What sort of install required you to remove multiple ONT's.....

 

 





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  #3325056 27-Dec-2024 14:07
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@SubliminalHDTV

 

Do you have a picture or a make and model. Just to confirm we are talking about the same thing when you say you have lots of ONTs?


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  #3325063 27-Dec-2024 14:41
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Good point, could just be the routers :)

 

 





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  #3325064 27-Dec-2024 14:51
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xpd:

 

What sort of install required you to remove multiple ONT's.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

At one stage the MOE was using multiple ONTs to link school buildings, weird setup but they are out there. 


 
 
 
 

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  #3325082 27-Dec-2024 16:54
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My work has hundreds of the things. Fibre to the desk and a 4-port ONT for each. They're not Chorus-owned though :)


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  #3325178 27-Dec-2024 21:51
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Behodar:

 

My work has hundreds of the things. Fibre to the desk and a 4-port ONT for each. They're not Chorus-owned though :)

 

 

University of Otago has done the same for a couple of their buildings. Black 4-port Nokias with PoE on all the ports. Annoyingly they're not wall-mounted, so they just kind of sit on the desks (I've even seen one serving a copier just sitting on a chair placed next to it).


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  #3325186 27-Dec-2024 22:09
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A few years ago I managed to "come across" an excess number of ONTs from "somewhere".

 

"What", I thought to myself, "shall I do with 100 ONTs that no one wants?"

 

Then I had an amazing idea.  I thought I'd make an ONT raft out of them.  So I got 8 long, thin, lightweight planks of wood and I put them into a square formation.  I got the ONTs and I painstaking lashed ~80 ONTs onto the raft.

 

By the end of it, I had a square shape ONT raft! It looked just like this, but ONTs instead of milk cartons:

 

 

 

 

I was so happy with my hard work! It'd taken me about 2 weeks to finish up and get ready for sailing, but I'd done it.

 

The big day arrived! Everyone gathered around, a few people asked where I'd got the ONTs from but I ignored those questions.

 

Proudly, I pushed the ONT raft out into the sea and I hopped aboard! 

 

It sank immediately.

 

 

 

So don't do that with them.


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  #3325212 28-Dec-2024 09:02
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muppet:

 

A few years ago I managed to "come across" an excess number of ONTs from "somewhere".

 

"What", I thought to myself, "shall I do with 100 ONTs that no one wants?"

 

Then I had an amazing idea.  I thought I'd make an ONT raft out of them.  So I got 8 long, thin, lightweight planks of wood and I put them into a square formation.  I got the ONTs and I painstaking lashed ~80 ONTs onto the raft.

 

By the end of it, I had a square shape ONT raft! It looked just like this, but ONTs instead of milk cartons:

 

 

 

 

I was so happy with my hard work! It'd taken me about 2 weeks to finish up and get ready for sailing, but I'd done it.

 

The big day arrived! Everyone gathered around, a few people asked where I'd got the ONTs from but I ignored those questions.

 

Proudly, I pushed the ONT raft out into the sea and I hopped aboard! 

 

It sank immediately.

 

 

 

So don't do that with them.

 

 

hahaha, I’ll take things that never happened for $100.

 

 

 

 


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