I plugged French Orange's GPON FTTH ONT into my Debian router's RJ-45 port, added a VLAN interface, added a couple of lines to my DHCP client configuration to pretend my router is some Sagem device and pass authentication to the server... And that's all - sweet 500/200 Mb/s throughput, no ISP CPE in sight (well, technically the ONT...) and Orange even waived the 3€/month CPE rental fee !
Former provider offered FTTB and I used the coaxial cable CPE as a bridge - and even when I do not have that option, I insist on having a router of my own as my network's demarcation: it is basic hygiene.
Other option for GPON would have been to plug a GPON SFP module into one of my switches - the friendly guy who laid the fiber to my apartment even left me one in case I changed my mind... But going through the switch to the router and back to the switch on a different VLAN is unnecessarily complicated in my case. Anyone wants a free GPON SFP module ?
I thought about bridging an Ubiquit EdgeRouter and putting in front of the AT&T gateway. You must pass authentication back to the gateway. Users were also reporting around 100megs max speed which wasn’t acceptable for me since I pay for gigabit.
There is a new line of EdgeRouters out and maybe it has some acceleration for bridging. I would like this setup.
I get wirespeed routing from my ERL on my 1Gps connection. If it’s maxing out at 100 Mbps, those folks have it configured so that it’s having to route with the CPU.
I can’t find the dslreports link but here is one on the Ubiquiti forums . You can see the comments below about 100Mbps. The dslreports was slightly different but same results.
[1]https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeMAX-Stories/Bypassing-AT-a...
You don't need to use bridging mode to bypass the AT&T RG. That post probably predates the EAP proxy solution.