Ask HN: Where can I buy a non-Chinese ONT/ONU/GPON router/modem?
2 by nochineserouter | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN. I'm living in Africa right now, and in my particular city, all of the home internet is fibre. Specifically, each and every apartment/home gets an actual fibre line that comes in and terminates in some sort of Huawei/other-chinese-brand WiFi router. Examples: https://ift.tt/2PNPTSK https://ift.tt/2PJOwoi I do not trust Chinese hardware that connects to the internet, so I want to purchase my own device. I am having trouble, though. Looking on US Amazon I can find almost nothing and the little that I do find, is Chinese. It seems as though Netgear, Linksys, etc do not make hardware that connects directly to fibre. I feel like I'm doing something wrong. I feel like I'm not typing in the right thing, or looking in the right place. Surely there must be some sort of fibre->ethernet-jack hardware out there, to which I can connect to my own WiFi router (preferably running OpenWRT or something), right? I remember when I lived in the US, there were a zillion "cable modem/cable modem-router" options on Amazon. I managed to find only this https://ift.tt/3s3UzkC but I can't find out where to buy one. What am I doing wrong? Thanks