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richard999
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2 years ago
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XGS-PON Business - which router

Nexfibre are currently laying fibre in my street, and as it's the only fibre available in my area I'm looking to switch to Virgin. As the only way I can get a static IP address is with the business version, I'm looking at going down that root.

My question however is regarding the router that will be provided. For the XGS-PON version is a different router provided? The Hitron one mentioned on the website only seems to have a co-axial cable input.

  • Riche90's avatar
    Riche90
    2 years ago

    They only do coax for business and do not currently have an xgs pon router that can take lc/apc in. Sounds mad I know but I’ve been told this on the phone to them 4+ times. They actually said they would come and switch me to coax lmao.. nonsensical. But with VM it’s expected now. 

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  • Tudor's avatar
    Tudor
    Very Insightful Person
    2 years ago

    You will have ti contact VM Business, the VM staff on this board only deal with residential connections and will have no information. Why do you need a fixed IP address? My IP hasn’t changed for nearly 2 years, in any case if you have a URL pointing to your IP you can just use DDNS.

  • Riche90's avatar
    Riche90
    Dialled in
    2 years ago

    They only do coax for business and do not currently have an xgs pon router that can take lc/apc in. Sounds mad I know but I’ve been told this on the phone to them 4+ times. They actually said they would come and switch me to coax lmao.. nonsensical. But with VM it’s expected now. 

    • richard999's avatar
      richard999
      Tuning in
      2 years ago

      Thanks for the info. That's annoying. 

      Tudor, I need it for when I WFH. At lot of the services I access are behind a firewall and the risk that my IP address might change could cause issues, especially if anything urgent came up. By the looks of it, AAISPs L2TP service may be the only way to get around this.

      Thanks all for the help.

  • jpeg1's avatar
    jpeg1
    Alessandro Volta
    2 years ago

    As Tudor said, a DDNS is your answer.  Choose a reliable service. 

  • Baz1536's avatar
    Baz1536
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    11 months ago

    Hi I am looking getting Business Broadband for the same reason.  I am in a NexFibre region only which means it is only FTTP.  How can this be serviced with Coax when only fibre is available.  Did you get anywhere with this and what router did you get?