What is the difference between ONU and Router?

[JB701]

DHCP is the protocol that assigns things like IP Configuration, DNS etc to all the devices on a network. Without DHCP you'll have to manually assign static IP addresses to all devices.

When you turn it off, the clients are no longer given IP Addresses. This is needed if you want to use router as an Access Point because you don't want the AP to assign IP Addresses to clients as the main router is meant to do it.

 

[ACKR]

Thanks for all your help @JB701 . I managed to set it up.

 

[ACKR]

Hey i have another issue, the speed seems to be very poor when downloading from gdrive, its keeps on starting and stopping, is it related to config?

Also there is no option to change MTU in my ONU

 

[JB701]

i think that is a peering issue unrelated to bridge mode. Are you getting good speeds on speedtest/other sites?

The MTU needs to be changed on router. In bridge mode, ONU doesn't do much I think.

 

[ACKR]

I am getting great speed on speedtest and other sites. Also i changed MTU on router to 1452 in accordance to the guide i posted above. My ONU doesn't have an option to change MTU so only did it in router.

 

[JB701]

i think its a routing issue with google on BSNL.

 

[ACKR]

Ahh ok thanks.

 

[rizexor]

What is MTU

 

[JB701]

MTU is the largest packet size that can be sent over a connection. For Ethernet its normally 1500 Bytes. With PPPoE MTU is reduced to 1492 (PPPoE takes 2+6 Bytes. However, some ISPs have even lower MTU.

If a packet is larger than the MTU, itll be fragmented (i.e split). Some applications such as OpenVPN UDP Packets don't work with fragmentation, so MTU has to be lowered if set too high.

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[zagdu.singh]

There are 2 options
1. Use ONT and use a wifi router with more features
2. Use a GPON router w/ inbuilt ONT

Which architecture serves better in terms of speed ? Basically I am asking, does it hinder speed if we use standalone ONT w/ standalone router, as compared to a all-in-one GPON router ?