Fibre hardware why so secretive?

You don't need to do anything. The fibre installer will do everything including the conduits etc. You can maybe just drill a hole in the wall or ceiling where you want to fibre to enter the building.

Sorry just moved and don't have fibre yet, so can't provide photos. It will be slightly different depending on the provider anyways.

But you have a smallish box outside near your boundary wall. And then inside your house a small little ONT box.

So between the outside box and inside little ONT just the fibre line. Also note that the fibre line can't have a sharp bent.
 
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The "box thing" you are referring to is the ONT- and as with all things in life, they come in many sizes. At my parents house, they have a Nokia (MFN fibre) which is absolutely tiny (about 100 mm or so square, maybe 20 - 30mm height or something, could be smaller or bigger) compared to the Huawei ONT at my house (Openserve), which is the size of a router basically- comparably to a WS5200 or AX3 router from Huawei, more or less. So you'd have to know which fibre operator you will be using and which ONT they will supply.

As for ISPs, I'm a big fan of Afrihost currently and they do month to month on fibre, no contract. Maybe @AfriNatic can chip in here.
 
We offer the Ax3 router for free. We have a fixed 6 months R999 cancellation fee. After that there is no penalties and the router is yours to keep.
 
With Openserve, and some other FNO's, there is a patch panel box installed on the interior wall where the main fibre cable terminates into, and then a 1m fibre fly-lead is used to connect the ONT to the patch panel box. Other FNO's like Vumatel and Octotel terminate the main fibre cable directly into the ONT. For this reason, Openserve usually doesn't mount the ONT onto the wall and it can actually just sit on a shelf. The other FNO's who don't use a patch panel box usually hot glue the ONT onto the wall permanently.
 
The installers who did my fibre were savages. Without my supervision it would have been even worse: white conduit attached without regard for aesthetics or even level, drooping now because of inconsistent support, multiple holes drilled that came out in unexpected places loosening chunks of plaster, on top of a path because they didn't think to go under. Get what you pay for with "free installation".
 
AngryDog said:
First thing i noticed when i looked for the ONT or known as "Optical Network Terminal" was that you get a few types.

Now This is where the "secret" comes in i guess.

See I gave up on Fibre for a few reasons.

1 > Cost
2 > Special hardware requirements

So it pains me to say it but it is not worth it. I am saying this because with LTE I can take my contract with me if i need to move. With Fibre i essentially am paying to stay in one place. More importunately depending on the provider nothing is mine and there is a cancellation cost in some cases.

These are important factors but a big one is changing and I will point to Vodacom for this one. Instead of giving us good speeds Vodacom is now selling their new contracts with limited up and down speeds like Fibre so essentially kneecapping the consumer and forcing them to pay MORE. There really should be customer protection at this point.
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You don't need any special hardware requirements - a router that has a WAN port is all - this gets you DHCP lease from the Fibre ONT (which the FNO provides).
 
SykomantiS said:
The "box thing" you are referring to is the ONT- and as with all things in life, they come in many sizes. At my parents house, they have a Nokia (MFN fibre) which is absolutely tiny (about 100 mm or so square, maybe 20 - 30mm height or something, could be smaller or bigger) compared to the Huawei ONT at my house (Openserve), which is the size of a router basically- comparably to a WS5200 or AX3 router from Huawei, more or less. So you'd have to know which fibre operator you will be using and which ONT they will supply.

As for ISPs, I'm a big fan of Afrihost currently and they do month to month on fibre, no contract. Maybe @AfriNatic can chip in here.
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I actually saw that Openserve started using Nokia ONT’s in Durban South with an arial fibre install towards the end of last year.

Was pretty surprised it was not Huawei but also delighted:ROFL:
 
Louis72 said:
I actually saw that Openserve started using Nokia ONT’s in Durban South with an arial fibre install towards the end of last year.

Was pretty surprised it was not Huawei but also delighted:ROFL:
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Is there something wrong with the Huawei ONT's? Not trying to argue, just curious.
 
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