Time for PLDT Fiberhome ONU/ONT Replacement

 Today I wanted to share to my reader on how-to retired my PLDT Fiberhome ONU/ONT AN5506-04-FA device, its has been there for couples of years that I wish to get rid of it and replace with SFP module that will work for my project. Googling on the net to find docs and most of all can get the most affordable SFP module that I can substitute for my ONT/ONU.Not just for the...

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Tenda G103 ONU works on HUAWEI OLT

Today a friend from India an FTTH subscriber of RailWire ISP share the thoughts of his Tenda G103  ONU (Optical Network Unit) as a replacement to Huawei ONT (Optical Network Terminal). Looking for serial port pin header very easy to guess just like the other wireless router that has Ground TX RX and VCC. The good news firmware is base on opensource OpenWrt image_name=openwrt-lantiq-falcon-EASY98020 The...

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TP-Link WR886N Chinese Third Party Firmware

Here we go after we done moding the FLASH and RAM its time for us to Brush it with the third party firmware. This device WR886N version 3.0 is supported by OpenWrt, SuperWrt, DD-Wrt and Gargoyle Linux opensource firmware. What we need is a USB cheap 25Q FLASH programmer and USB to TTL for the serial console. Next is decide to which boot loader you want to be accustom with. The...

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Getting the PPP Username and Password for CenturyLink Zyxel C1000Z Modem

My first DSL modem in 1999 required Telnetting in via serial port to USB. I had to call a network technician at Qwest, and followed by typing in what seemed like arcane commands. I had no idea what I was doing. Things have changed for the better, but most DSL modems still have the ability to log into them directly through command line interfaces. The C1000Z runs BusyBox...

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PLDT HOME Fibr Multi-WAN

In February 2007 it was my very first time going out the country to work abroad for operation and maintenance in one of the International Airport in the  Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, I left my previous work in one of the famous University in my hometown. During that time the only fastest Internet broadband connection that you can get for residential was the twin copper wire...

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How To Backup Fiberhome AN5506-04-FA MTD

First and foremost before doing the backup of the ONU/ONT Fiberhome AN5506-04-FA make sure you are the owner of the device, secondly you responsible for the damage you have done, doing this is a risky and you might be able to brick the equipment if mishandled incorrectly. As a precaution, preferably you have a spare ONU/ONT on your hand in the case of disaster you might not...

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How To Change MAC Address on Embeded System

I have just purchased an ONU/ONT Fiberhome AN5506-01-A at AliExpress a well known online store in Asia region. I decided to buy it because of my Fiber Internet Service Provider is locking down all their Optical Network Unit aka Optical Network Terminal which only allow their subscriber to a limited privileges to the CPE device settings and configurations. My ISP are updating...

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For TP Routing: Modify firmware size, unlock U-boot partitions, add Fullflash partitions

TP-Link TL-WR703N factory default has only 4MB of flash and 32MB RAM, if you want to play with the OP is simply powerless, so I changed the 8M Flash and 64M RAM. First, modify the firmware size OpenWrt in the compile time will be based on each model profile to generate the firmware, if the generated firmware integrated too much software and more than 4MB it will be error,...

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The Huawei B593 LTE Family

The Huawei B593 4G LTE CPE Router. There are many sub models such as the HUAWEI B593U-12, B593s-82, B593s-42, B593u-501, B593u-513, B593u-91. They are designed to meet the 4G LTE Band requirements for different markets. They incorporate similar configuration and even have the same functions. Source: http://www.3g-solution.com/sdp/95544...ay_router.html Confirmed sub-model...

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Maxis-Fibre-Internet OpenWrt Custom Router TL-WR740N IPTV

First thing to do is need to reflash the TP-Link TL-WR740N with the third party OpenWrt firwmare, in my case I have downloaded the Attitude Adjustment 12.09, after the reflashing, it will automatically prompted you the Login page and you are ask and required make your password for Linux OpenWrt the wireless router. Second thing to take note is that TP-LINK TL-WR740N physical...

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OpenMediaVault

OpenMediaVault (OMV) is a complete and free open-source software (FOSS) network-attached storage (NAS) operating system (OS). It is developed and designed primarily for home use. Developer Volker Theile began development of OpenMediaVault in 2009 Previously he worked with the FreeNAS project. OpenMediaVault is based on the Debian Linux distribution. It is licensed through...

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Freenas 9.2.1 with Transmission and Couchpotato

Freenas 9.2.1 with Transmission and Couchpotato/Sickbeard as a DLNA-Server I’m going to describe how to set up Freenas with the popular plugins couchpotato and transmissions to use them for downloading movies/series and streaming them via DLNA as well as mounting the storage on Linux. With this setup, I manage my movie collection and my wanted movies with couchpotato,...

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