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Horray fiber internet! However the fiber modem is itself a wifi router, which okay I guess, and it feels like setting up another wifi router would just be kinda duplicating what's there. But there's no web interface to configure it from even, you have to install a proprietary app on your phone which I don't really wanna do
It's not really that big a deal I guess, but I kinda preferred when modems and wifi routers were always separate things, or at least when you could bring your own modem
I ran an Ethernet cable from the fiber router to my existing WiFi router, that way all the little things connected with the existing router didn't have to change.
Then just added the new optical fiber router logins to things as needed .
Think of it as isolating a bunch of code running in production from the change you're making to avoid having to regression test. 馃槈
Friends dont' let friends run ISP controlled routers... now you need my Guix router VM... which I haven't made public yet...
Often you actually CAN get your own "modem" (in this case, it's called an ONT for Optical Network Terminator). Who do you have as a provider?
@dlakelan This is Bell in Ontario. And it seems you can't provide your own modem with them. You can supply your own router, though.
Can't is a strong word 馃槀.
I have ATT in california, they have 802.1x crypto certificates built into their modems, but they do have passthrough mode available
*blushes* just little old me, learning Guix by transferring my Debian router functionality to guix. I've been tagging posts about it as #guix and then #guixrouter as well more recently.
Right now I'm routing my network via a VM on proxmox running Guix. Will describe features in followup post thread. 1/n
I might, nonetheless, set up my own wifi router later
But it's still a bit infuriating that I have to install some app to disable the wifi router on the modem
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