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Vodafone 6E router / CityFibre

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Received the Vodafone 6E router ahead of my CityFibre install tomorrow. The router has both a 2.5G WAN/LAN port and a 10G SFP+ cage on the rear. Looks a smart bit of kit for a consumer item.
After service activation can I plug a 10G SPF ONT fibre transceiver module directly into it instead of using the wall mounted ONT with 1G ethernet port.
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Wondering if you can use that without a vodafone connection.
 
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Received the Vodafone 6E router ahead of my CityFibre install tomorrow. The router has both a 2.5G WAN/LAN port and a 10G SFP+ cage on the rear. Looks a smart bit of kit for a consumer item.
After service activation can I plug a 10G SPF ONT fibre transceiver module directly into it instead of using the wall mounted ONT with 1G ethernet port.
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The port is labelled SFP not SFP+. SFP is usually 1Gb whereas SFP+ is 10Gb:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Form-factor_Pluggable#SFP_types
 
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Doesn't look like a terrible bit of hardware eh?!
10G SPF ONT fibre transceiver module
Most GPON modules that you will find will be SFP with 2.5GbE support (HSGMII), so it's very unlikely the router will negotiate at a rate over 1 GbE.

It may be possible, but CityFibre definitely isn't as trivial to add other ONTs to as Openreach is and I have yet to see anyone report they have successfully done it (give it time 😄).

The next question is can you use that SFP interface as the WAN on the router's software? (Though I guess an easy one to test with a 1G RJ45 module and attach the existing ONT).
 
Maybe a pointless exercise anyway as my line rate 900/900 will be capped from further down the network and not by the gigabit lan on the ONT.
 
Maybe a pointless exercise anyway as my line rate 900/900 will be capped from further down the network and not by the gigabit lan on the ONT.
Almost certainly, especially given the fact they're about to go all in on XGS-PON
 
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Meaning they will need to revisit to swap out the ONT for a multi gig version in the future.
Meaning that they'll need restrictions down the line rather than relying on the ONTs GbE port to limit the speed to 900.

And of course, that may be true too, one day you'll likely need (well I guess "want") to switch to their new shiny ONT and if you did buy a GPON ONT, it'll be unusable.
 
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Received the Vodafone 6E router ahead of my CityFibre install tomorrow. The router has both a 2.5G WAN/LAN port and a 10G SFP+ cage on the rear. Looks a smart bit of kit for a consumer item.
After service activation can I plug a 10G SPF ONT fibre transceiver module directly into it instead of using the wall mounted ONT with 1G ethernet port.
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What's the admin login features like on the Hub, tempted by it especially for the price
 
What's the admin login features like on the Hub, tempted by it especially for the price
Looks fairly decent router for the deal that Vodafone gave with CityFibre. £37 for the Pro Broadband II as a mobile subscriber. Will feed it into my Mikrotik routerboard if I can't get the SFP working.

940 / 940 up / down so must be the gigabit lan capping the speed. Was getting 1145 / 52 from my Virgin Gig 1 into the Mikrotik using port bonding. That gets disconnected in a fortnight even though retentions called back with a mega deal to keep it on.
 

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Looks fairly decent router for the deal that Vodafone gave with CityFibre. £37 for the Pro Broadband II as a mobile subscriber. Will feed it into my Mikrotik routerboard if I can't get the SFP working.

940 / 940 up / down so must be the gigabit lan capping the speed. Was getting 1145 / 52 from my Virgin Gig 1 into the Mikrotik using port bonding. That gets disconnected in a fortnight even though retentions called back with a mega deal to keep it on.
Any PPoE settings available in the UI?
 
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As far as I'm aware, CF do auth on serial numbers so you may have a chance - I'd be very curious if you manage it as it'd open the door to a lot more flexibility for subscribers!
 
I'm thinking that PPPoE changes should be available as you have to change between the CityFibre and Openreach networks.
 
I'm thinking that PPPoE changes should be available as you have to change between the CityFibre and Openreach networks.
I'd assume provisioned through the ACS - on either connection you're put into a walled garden first, where it'd pull the config with the PPP creds in. I wonder what the backup files are like for this router and if you could extract some info from there - do we know who OEMs it?
 
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