Best XPON ONU that supports Bridgemode? + How is Railnet?

[Figment9543]

Hello guys!

I'm going/coming to India and would like to fix the internet issues at home.
We have 465b454f-6d90-4d6a-85f8-b855cff1cb82 hosted at ImgBB DBC XPON.

Behind this I connected a Archer C9(with DD-WRT) and it works fine when the connection is fine.

I'm planning to add camera and other things and want to put a small server + other things - for me to remote into from the US.
With that said, I would like to change to a better XPON ONU (without any wifi) with bridging.

So please suggest some good XPON ONU maybe 1Gig? (I'm ok if it has Wifi, but bridge mode and an option to switch off the wifi should be there). Or how is this DBC technologies ONU (pic linked above)? Is it ok to use that and does it support bridging??


We already got Static IP few weeks back - since I read somewhere it might help in proper routing with BSNL. Plus I want to get into my home network from outside and I thought static IP will help for VPN. This is all in Namakkal in Tamil Nadu.


It's BSNL but thru Aarsu cable. I'm couldn't understand the link between them but want to know will the connection be better if it's taken directly from BSNL and not Aarsu?

Six/Seven years back BSNL said they cant service my area with Fibre and after sometime this Aarsu cable came into picture. But my father recently paid for Static IP in BSNL office only.

Also those Aarsu cable agency guys are telling we can take Railnet as a backup - because lot of the time after 9/10pm Internet stops working or some issues. I'm yet to find out after going there.

I already bought a Ubiquiti ER-X as a router to put it in my home once I reach India. Also by default ER-X supports two WAN connection. So I don't mind getting Railnet.

Any one using Railnet? They are saying some INR 2000-3000 per year but the speed will be slow. I'm ok as long as it is a back up. So in that case, one more ONU right?

Any idea and suggestions are welcome. Thank you!

 

[rajil.s]

I was in the same shoes as you for a long time (remote in from abroad). Here are some tips which i can share through my experience if you want reliability,

• invest in an inverter and couple of acid batteries, and an APC ups. The batteries will ensure good uptime. APC will ensure that switching time is low. Connect server to APC and APC to inverter.
• The server should have ipmi. So if something happens to it, you can remotely log into it and reinstall the OS. My preference is Supermicro for motherboards (ebay for secondhand)
• Make sure that Ubiquiti router can withstand sudden power blackout. Openwrt works well, but I prefer pfsense for all networking now.

Static ip is a necessity, you dont want to fight with dyndns from remote. Bsnl had a issue in the old days that they disconnect the user every 24 hours. That really sucked, not sure if they still do that.

 

[rizexor]

Not sure I can answer many of your questions.

Power is a big problem in Chennai, so a good UPS is needed. (maybe notify you when power goes down)

For backup I recommend 4G dongle + some openwrt router although I haven't tried it.
You can try zerotier or tailscale with it if you don't have static IP. I ordered a nanopi R2S yesterday for this.

I am selling a used Dell Poweredge R410 server with 64Gigs RAM if you are interested.

 

[isp007]

get any syro Netlink xpon d ont n u r done nowadays its even coming with voice port

 

[Figment9543]

@isp007 - Thank you!

Any website and model that you recommend?

 

[isp007]

u can checkout Netlink site for onu u can buy voice one or non voice one both non wifi models available