Hub power supplies

[CJ38]

My hub 3 has a separate power supply to the outside dropbox. When my friend got a new installation with a hub 5 he didn't need a separate supply. Does that mean the hub 5 supplies the dropbox via the one cable. Which begs the question if you were to upgrade to a hub 5 would there need to be some rewiring of the dropbox supply.

[Tudor]

From what you describe I think you have a RFoG fibre connection to your outside omnibox and this requires a power supply, it’s nothing to do with what hub you have. So changing hubs will make no difference. Only a small proportion of users have RFoG.

[CJ38]

Thank you. Out of curiosity what would be the alternative to RFoG and which is the newer or better system

[Tudor · Accepted solution]

Neither RFoG(Radio Frequency over Glass, still DOCIS) nor coax DOCIS is better. Eventually the RFoG will be transferred over to full fibre with no DOCIS involved.

[CJ38]

Thank you