Our Internet provider recently informed us that we now may have access to FTTR, instead of our current FTTH.

FTTH stands for Fiber To The Home.

This is the installation we currently have. Download : 2Gb / Upload : 600Mb. Until now, it was the best we could get.

The Internet box associated with this Internet offer is a Calix 854-2.
It is a Fiber Modem Router with 4x1Gb ports. It means that I theoretically have 1Gb dedicated to the Wifi (2,4GHz + 5GHz), and I can never Reach the 2Gb download speed on any host at home.

FTTR stands for Fiber To The Room

Basically, this is the most powerful solution for people who want network speed but cannot

The new offer promises 8Gb symmetric connection.
The 8Gb Download are shared as follows : 2,5Gb dedicated for the Wifi, the rest is for the Box.
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According to a first research, the Box is a Huawei model offering 1x2,5Gb Ethernet port and 3 x1Gb Ethernet port.

Additionnaly to the box : the satellites

The additional network devices proposed are called "satelites". These are Huawai too.
They are smaller routers with a 2 Ethernet plugs, and 1 Fiber plug. They are mostly intended to distribute the Wifi 7 connectivity, but it is possible to connect other devices by cable to it.
They are directly connected to the OPT (Optical Termination Point), or PTO in french.

New learnings :

Network ownership

Each satellite is linked to the main Internet Modem/Router through a "private network". But this private network goes through the ISP (Internet Service Provider).
This means that if I want to connect devices to a satellite, it will have access to the Internet, I might have access to it from my network, but the connection somehow goes through the ISP, not everything is behind the main Internet box, as it is the case for now with FTTH.

And because the connectivity goes somehow through the ISP, the first Satellite is free of charge, but any additional one costs 4 more euros per month. This definitely means that the ISP has to handle more stuff on his side. This takes the network out of my hands.

Wifi 7

• deterministic latency makes the latency close to cable's
• Frequencies : 2.4, 5, 6 GHz
• Depending on the load on the 6GHz bandwidth, the speed may double
• 4K-QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation): possible 20% speed gain if the signal's quality is good enough.
• MLO (Multi-Link Operation): Flow aggregation, automatic switch, all 3 bandwidth are used at the same time.
• extension of OFDMA and MU-MIMO (already available in Wifi 6): Wifi 5 is not up to 20 simultaneously connected devices. Wifi 7 is fine.

Is my current infrastructure ready for the FTTR offer ?

Wired devices

Nope. Top speed of all wired devices is 1Gb.

Wireless devices

Nope. None of the handys or laptops we currently have at home are compatible.