02-25-2025, 08:53 AM
TruVista is a cable broadband and fiber internet provider headquartered in South Carolina and also has services in Georgia. Here I'm talking specifically about South Georgia as they bought Plant Telecommunications which was a regional telephone company that covered 14 exchanges. In 2009, Plant purchased CityNet, the Telecommunications Dept of the City of Tifton. CityNet provided television, high speed Internet, and telephone services.
Anyway... now about the Adtran issue.
TruVista has been rolling out fiber Internet using the Adtran ONT for residential and business customers. For most residential customers, the issue I'm going to explain really won't matter. However, for business users, it may, as it does for one of my clients.
I'm moving one of my existing clients over to TruVista's GEPON service that uses the Adtran ONT and I need 3 static IP addresses, what I currently have with them over the Calix circuit. However, after several times of going back and forth of "it won't work", "yes it will work", to "nope, it really won't work but, well, it will but you'll need to put a switch behind it and have multiple routers"... yeah, that's messed up. At a MINIMUM I have to have 2 static IP addresses, but I wanted 3, just like I have now.
So, they can't seem to do it with the Adtran, which blows my mind because basic networking allows for that. The Adtran is just a bridge. Cable modems are just a bridge, and they can do it. So, hell if I know why they can't, or won't, do it.
Anyone else not using TruVista have this issue or maybe can shed some light on why they possibly can't do it? I just don't believe it's a technical limitation of the Adtran ONT.
Anyway... now about the Adtran issue.
TruVista has been rolling out fiber Internet using the Adtran ONT for residential and business customers. For most residential customers, the issue I'm going to explain really won't matter. However, for business users, it may, as it does for one of my clients.
I'm moving one of my existing clients over to TruVista's GEPON service that uses the Adtran ONT and I need 3 static IP addresses, what I currently have with them over the Calix circuit. However, after several times of going back and forth of "it won't work", "yes it will work", to "nope, it really won't work but, well, it will but you'll need to put a switch behind it and have multiple routers"... yeah, that's messed up. At a MINIMUM I have to have 2 static IP addresses, but I wanted 3, just like I have now.
So, they can't seem to do it with the Adtran, which blows my mind because basic networking allows for that. The Adtran is just a bridge. Cable modems are just a bridge, and they can do it. So, hell if I know why they can't, or won't, do it.
Anyone else not using TruVista have this issue or maybe can shed some light on why they possibly can't do it? I just don't believe it's a technical limitation of the Adtran ONT.