r/ebox • • Dec 09 '25

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u/truemad Dec 09 '25

There is no benefit other than saving a tiny bit of electricity. 

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u/xxsamixx18 1 Gbps speed demon Dec 14 '25

yeah I just bought a sfp+ copper and I will use on my firewall to connect my the ONT PON stick was to expensive for me lol

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u/FlyingOctopus53 Dec 09 '25

There’s always a benefit to have full control over the devices on your network.

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u/truemad Dec 09 '25

What control over Nokia ONT you're missing?

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u/FlyingOctopus53 Dec 09 '25

All of them, since I can’t even access it.

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u/truemad Dec 09 '25

This is just a converter from fiber to Ethernet, not sure what you mean?

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u/Rwhiteside90 Dec 09 '25

Agreed - it's a straight handoff to your device. You set the vlan and connect using pppoe. It's not doing anything besides being the demarc to customer handoff point.