NigelUX
Novice Member
Hi, after finally deciding to dump our Virgin services my cursor is currently hovering over the "check out" button to sign up to BT broadband for their 900mbps FTTP (BT upgraded the estate we're on during the first lockdown last year, 12 months ahead of schedule. Win!) service.
We don't intend to take their digital voice service (or any other bolt-on's they may offer) and will port our existing landline number to my sipgate account and I'll hopefully be able to use one of the redundant Cisco ATA's I've got in my pile of might-be-useful-in-the-future-bits in the garage to use to convert our existing DECT handsets into a pseudo-VoIP handset to cover our limited voice requirments.
Given I have a very well tuned Unifi wireless and wired setup and the house is groaning under the weight of Cat6A cabling I put in last year, can I safely ignore whatever useless Wifi hub/router thing they send me and connect my OPNsense firewall direct into the ONT, wherever the engineer decides to fit that? Are there any gotchas (like MAC address spoofing etc) that I need to be aware of when it goes live as I assume the BT engineer will probably not want to encourage anything outside of their standard setup?
We don't intend to take their digital voice service (or any other bolt-on's they may offer) and will port our existing landline number to my sipgate account and I'll hopefully be able to use one of the redundant Cisco ATA's I've got in my pile of might-be-useful-in-the-future-bits in the garage to use to convert our existing DECT handsets into a pseudo-VoIP handset to cover our limited voice requirments.
Given I have a very well tuned Unifi wireless and wired setup and the house is groaning under the weight of Cat6A cabling I put in last year, can I safely ignore whatever useless Wifi hub/router thing they send me and connect my OPNsense firewall direct into the ONT, wherever the engineer decides to fit that? Are there any gotchas (like MAC address spoofing etc) that I need to be aware of when it goes live as I assume the BT engineer will probably not want to encourage anything outside of their standard setup?