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Great Blue Heron

Trans: Latin prefix implying “across” or “Beyond”, often used in gender nonconforming situations Scend: Archaic word describing a strong “surge” or “wave”, originating with 15th century english sailors Survival: 15th century english compound word describing an existence only worth transcending

Jess Sullivan

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Hacking around with XGS-PON: Fiber ISPs, WAS-110 Modules & Mikrotik

Two fiber ISPs, one switch, two BFW WAS-110 SFP+ XGS-PON modules running 8311 community firmware. Fidium and GoNetSpeed both authenticate the same way (clone the operator-supplied ONT's identity into IaC), but their upstream OLTs push very different OMCI service profiles. This is the procedure I used to land both, with annotated scripts and OMCI captures.

Lets take an adventure in comfort hacking, exploring and ultimately configuring two fiber ISP uplinks — Fidium and GoNetSpeed — through BFW Solutions...