Comment by lapetitejort

2 days ago

I set up a small Ubiquiti setup with Pi-hole, then moved into a home serviced by AT&T Fiber, which comes with an all in one fiber modem and WiFi hub. I started using it before I could unpack, then did a little research on how I could disable WiFi, DHCP, and/or DNS in order to use my own equipment. The WiFi isn't great in all parts of the house so I planned on setting up APs at strategic points. But of course laziness, fear of stuff breaking and my family getting mad at me, and WiFi entrenchment has stopped me from using any of the equipment I bought. I would one day love to switch back over, but I just don't see it happening soon.

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atomicnumber3  2 days ago

I use ATT Fiber and using the pass-through mode has worked pretty well for me. The main problem is their box is still a piece of shit that they introduce bugs/regressions into sometimes. But that'll affect their own service as well, regardless of whether you use your own device w/ passthrough. So you might as well hook your stuff up.

  • MobileVet  2 days ago

    Same. Pass through mode FTW. Was very glad this was an option and works.

    ATT fiber pass through -> UniFi Security Gateway -> UniFi 8 port Witch w/ PoE -> UniFi AC Pro WAP

    Awesome combo with uptime in years.

NoMoreNicksLeft  2 days ago

There was a guy on dslreports selling certificates for $10 each, and you could just load it up into one of the cheap sfp modules off of aliexpress. Plug it straight into the router of your choice. No reason to use their junk. I've done the same with a different provider.

  • a2tech  2 days ago

    This is interesting--do you have a link to the sale or instructions as to how that was working?

    • NoMoreNicksLeft  2 days ago

      http://dslreports.com/

      You'd have to poke around in the forums. I'm not sure what the best keywords to search with would be. The gist of it is only AT&T ONTs can connect, because it's using certificate fuckery, but there was a guy buying those up for $1 or $5 or something on ebay, jtag-ing the certs off of those, and selling them for $10 each. There were instructions for how to program the sfp module to use those, and when I got mine those modules were only about $50 each (no idea what they're now with the tariff nonsense). You'd need a router that can accept those, I've got a Mikrotik. I think Ubiquiti has a prosumer router with one too that's not too crazy.

      At the time (3 years ago-ish), no one had figured out a way to do it with AT&T 5gig service. But for that you'd need something with SFP+ slots, and those are seriously pricey.