JP Vossen via plug on 27 Oct 2025 16:45:10 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] OT: FiOS ONT replacement 

Replied merged, thanks!

Jonathan, no model number is jumping out at me.  This is an OLD install, pretty close to when FiOS first came out, at least around here.  It's 3 cream colored units mounted on a 25x18" black board mounted to the basement wall:
	1. ONT is 12.5 x 12.5" and output looks like 1x Ethernet RJ-45, 1x coax, and 4x POTS RJ-11 terminals
	2. Separate power brick, more-or-less brick size
	3. Separate UPS about 9.5 x 7.5"

Carl, that sound encouraging.  Maybe I'm carry too much old baggage, I just recall some horror stories about various carriers trying to force use of their own black box crap.


On 10/27/25 05:38 PM, Carl Johnson wrote:

If you're already provisioned for ethernet, that should carry forward. It used to be that you'd have issues like you're saying when everything was using coax MoCA for the WAN side.
That's not the case so much anymore, especially with GPON ONT's.



On 10/27/25 05:25 PM, Jonathan Caicedo wrote:

What’s the current model of your existing ONT, or what does it look like? Is it one of the black Nokia ones with green lights?

— Jonathan


On Oct 27, 2025, at 17:19, JP Vossen via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:

Verizon keeps bugging me about replacing our FiOS ONT.  I've been putting it off, because what we have now has Just Worked for a *long* time, and more because it is configured with a simple Ethernet jack, into which I plug my pfSense FW WAN interface.  No black boxes or any crap like that, just Ethernet.

I'm worried that a) when I call them they will say, "What's Ethernet" and b), no matter what assurances they give on the phone, the guy who shows up will either say "What's Ethernet" or "We can't do it that way anymore."

Clues or local experiences?  (For reference, I'm in Collegeville.)


Thanks,
JP
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