Why did they install this hub

[Nerfherder]

Ja I also feel rather stupid now. That "Hub" appears to provide more "ports" which I would have thought would have been included on the ONT? Does it also provide for a VoIP port?
What ports are available on the ONT itself?

So the ONT will only have one active port. It just terminates the fibre. You can't use the rest of those ports.

My installer connected to the wrong one and I had a week of no fibre before the online support guy and I figured it out.

 

[R4ziel]

Think of it like this:
A hub is like mail call during basics. The corporal has a bag of letters and calls out the name. Everyone hears but just you will answer and the letter goes to you.
A switch is like a mailroom deliver at a big company. The person delivering knows where your desk is and takes the letter to you. Everyone else in the office doesn't know you got a letter.
A router is like a courier that delivers a parcel to the front desk at your office. Then someone takes the package to your desk.

This is a fantastic analogy!! Nice one man!

 

[Nerfherder]

So, is this really necessary, or is it because of frog's that it is needed

No its not, you can use the Tenda router to connect but they will have to set it up with your credentials.
They have added the Hap router so that they can manage things remotely. If you take it away they will tell you its going to be harder for them to support you (Possibly true)

I had this fight with the Vox installer when they set everything up, I have a Huwawe router that is 10 times better than the HaP router they installed but they want it for remote management. I'm more than qualified to do my own network management but realised that I'm not always going to be around when things go bad.

 

[Dairyfarmer]

This is a fantastic analogy!! Nice one man!

Years and years back I was doing my MCSE2000 and went to a study / teaching day. This is how the guy explained it to us.

 

[R4ziel]

Years and years back I was doing my MCSE2000 and went to a study / teaching day. This is how the guy explained it to us.

That is awesome, I know the technical side of routing and switching, but to explain it to someone technical is stupid hard, this analogy is so on point!!

 

[RedViking]

Years and years back I was doing my MCSE2000 and went to a study / teaching day. This is how the guy explained it to us.

Must have been before SAPO went down the drain. But your example makes sense, my Telkom router is usually without signal. Package probably got lost.

 

[Sinbad]

That is awesome, I know the technical side of routing and switching, but to explain it to someone technical is stupid hard, this analogy is so on point!!

Just tell them a hub is a collision domain but a switch is a broadcast domain while each port is a collision domain. (unless there are vlans involved)

 

[Dairyfarmer]

Must have been before SAPO went down the drain. But your example makes sense, my Telkom router is usually without signal. Package probably got lost.

Was in London at the time.

 

[kolaval]

Eish, that cigarette wrapper just lying there....

 

[Not_original]

Good thing I'm seeing this
Will soon be getting fibre and I will ensure thay I am home when they come do the installation.
Vodacom, so will likely get a Nokia fibre router. Will have my preferred devices ready and running. They can plop down their stuff and disable the wifi and set up in bridge mode.

 

[rambo919]

Even if it's slower and more expensive I kinda prefer the simplicity of a single ADSL router to.... this fibre nightmare.

 

[spit]

Good thing I'm seeing this
Will soon be getting fibre and I will ensure thay I am home when they come do the installation.
Vodacom, so will likely get a Nokia fibre router. Will have my preferred devices ready and running. They can plop down their stuff and disable the wifi and set up in bridge mode.

Hi, what is bridge mode? Because I've recently moved ISP and received a new router with the move, but kept my old Asus wireless AC1200 router. I don't have an extender and not planning on buying one but some parts of the house the signal is weak and want to use the new router as an extender but the router can only do Bridge Mode and I'm not familiar with it and I can't find proper information when I Google it. Is there extra cost involve in doing this or something I need to know?

The router I want to use is a zyxel vmg3625-t20a.

Thank you in advance.

 

[Rickster]

Tenda

That should belong in the garbage.