Just use the old Alcatel ONU until it breaks

The best thing u can do is try to login ur ONU 1st. Maybe the PLOAM password not masked & if masked u can unmask it by show password extension etc if u are using chrome browser.

Note: Need to manually config ip of the client u use to login the ONU or ONR (bridge mode).

Is this same ONU as yours? Alcatel Lucent I-240G-T?

https://youtu.be/r2Yl3U4PA5U

I used the silver Alcatel Lucent (2013) and was given the new black Nokia (2018), working perfectly since then till now. These ONUs are good up until 1Gbps only, except you willing to sacrifice a few (x)Mbps to retain your third party router installation. 

P/s:
It will be good if TM offers a pure standalone ONU perhaps those with 2.5GbE / 10G for power users (purchased separately from TM). While common people might ignore this option, hobbyist or power users might consider this option overall, still tm can make money. I don't think so the ONR given by TM is really secure or free from CVEs.

147.158.X.X IP block being take down by TM?
I saw my smokeping show that 147.158.255.254 Gateway is not ICMP pingable.
And now distribute 175.143.X.X for me after few year with 147.158 block.

All operators are moving to ditch IPv4, regardless of how many people sign up for 500Mbps.
It is just that the cheaper is the package (hence more subscriber), the more IPv4 address can be recovered.

Look at the APNIC Member Fee Schedule:
https://www.apnic.net/about-apnic/corporate...r-fee-schedule/

TM paid RM 1.5 billion to shareholder in dividend last year. The amount of money to pay for IPv4 address is tiny.
TM owns 3,221,248 IPv4 address today. Feel free to do the math yourself.

RIR has been encouraging members to return unused IPv4 address but guess what, people are hogging them instead.
There exist the cloud providers who buy up every single IPv4 address they can get.
Then there are the rent seeker trying to leech on dinosaur who refuse to learn IPv6.

RIR is now aggressively recovering whatever address they can get and assign them to CGNAT usage. ARIN go as far as forfeiting all your IPv4 address the moment you default membership payment.

As for network operator who already deploy IPv6, running dual stack is a chore. IPv4 is getting very fragmented and requires so much FIB / TCAM space which older router don't have.
There is proposal to fragment it even further by using longer than /24 subnet but thankfully the proposal has been shot down.
Then there is proposal to refarm the multicast range and thankfully that has been shot down too.
The amount of effort people are willing to go just to continue using some numbers that no longer scale is crazy.

Eventually all plan will not have IPv4 address anymore. The best time to learn IPv6 is yesterday. The second best time is now.

Regarding older network equipment having problem with IPv6, it is indeed true and the only way to solve the problem is unfortunately spending money to buy newer model if there is no more firmware upgrade.

For IPv6 transition, it is also true that there is absolutely zero advantage to be a first-mover. People who transition last will benefit from all the knowledge that became available, a strong ecosystem and not needing to maintain a dual-stack setup for a long time.

However, this is only true if you are currently holding sufficient IPv4 address and has no plan to scale your network. This applies mainly to small to medium businesses. If scaling is a concern, like cloud and telco, there is no way you can acquire more IPv4 address indefinitely.

For the average user, it is best to just migrate, especially if you do not own your own ASN and IPv4 address. IPv6 offers the following benefit:
- No need to NAT at all, not CGNAT, not on your router
- No need to perform hole punching when doing anything P2P like video call, games, etc
- No header checksum
- Ability to run native IPv6 on multiple subnet (if telco comply with RIPE BCOP-690)

As you can see, there are various reason why people want to keep IPv4 alive from the business perspective, or simply because people just hope IPv4 will continue to exist until they retire so they don't have to learn IPv6.

On the technical perspective, maintaining dual-stack and the continuous renumbering is tedious and just kick the can down the road. There won't be additional IPv4 address and IPv6 is the only way to go.

There is nothing in the networking stack preventing P2P from using IPv6. The current problem is game studio do not make their software works over IPv6 and game server do not even have IPv6 DNS record.

For RouterOS configuration, they are pretty low level. Think about "programming" for network.
In home router, you set a PPPoE username and password and it just works. The reason is because inside the firmware they already hardcoded a lot of things.
In RouterOS or any more advanced networking OS in general, you have to specify those things.
Example:
Specify the physical interface
Specify the VLAN profile
Attach the VLAN profile to the interface and specify their behavior (tagged, untagged, filtered, ethertype, MTU, etc)
Create a PPPoE profile.
Create a PPPoE client and attach the profile with it. This is where you put in your username and password.

After your PPPoE is successful, you then:
Specify which interface is inside or outside (can be via Interface List)
Create a NAT rule
Create fasttrack rule

For IPv6:
Create a DHCPv6 client and attach it to your PPPoE client
Assign the DHCPv6_PD to an address pool
Assign an address to your bridge / port / VLAN from the address pool
Create a Neighbor Discovery (ND) to perform the Router Advertisement (RA)
Create fasttrack rule

This is where they have design for some of the common setup. The implementation and CLI is vendor specific but the setup is not. You just have to understand them and convert it to other vendor's implementation.

Myself personally, I use a lot of Cisco and Juniper documentation. They are great resource and free.

Well if you are not a fan of low level network configuration, maybe give Ubiquiti Unifi Express 7 a try?
It is 2x the price of Mikrotik ax2 but you do get 2.5Gbps and WiFi 7. Their UI is kind of like Apple which is very user friendly.
Dimension wise they are quite similar. You can consider it if you never intent to use any wired LAN port.

Can xproc give a review?

only assigned technicians can help you. Usually for no connection takes 1 working day to fix.

Watch the first minute of this video. They probably went look for the tool or someone to identify the actual location of the fiber cut.

TM uses fiber with multiple strand inside. There are are cables from 2 strands up to 200+ strands per cable.

If the cable is not cut in half, there is a high chance some other stands are usable.
They just go back and connect different strand to see which one works.

Actually how long you have you been on this TM infra? The chance of them happening is quite rare.
You will only be immune if you taman have those special underground cable run which is fully covered.

I am sure there will still be hole big enough somewhere for rat to go in but the holes are only big enough for baby rat.

The 1st step to diagnose fiber cut is using OTDR to identify WHERE the exact location of the disconnected fiber A to C. It kind of similar to traceroute in binary world.

Once the exact location found let say B, as u mentioned they go to somewhere... the 2nd step is using VFL to identify WHICH fiber core to reconnect between A & C. I just can say repair everything will take times & not easiest as choose item & pay. Even u say u pay for it, need to.wait also for the sake

They pull new cable where the situation is the old cable too damage such as too many reconnection points, make the optical reading above workung spec.

Construction mostly are gone case for fiber cable.
Other than that fiber cable normally have a lifespan of around 50 years, which gives telco a significant cost advantage once the ODN is built

blackbox14, there's a situation where cable cut because of squirrel solved below 6 hours. Happen to me last Thursday at 7pm & back to normal around 11pm.

In my area, only my FDP was suddenly offline & upon check the nearest FDP no problem. What make it fast was my neighbor who is a TM cable contractor also use same FDP as mine. He call his PIC TM supervisor to inform about the fault. The fault should make alarm rise at NOC & repair ticket will be created although no FDP's customer lodge faulty report. If have btw the report will be cancelled once the alarm clear.

So that night my neighbor himself & his team fix the cable problem without start his motorcycle or car engine to go to work, only wait his team arrive with van. My point is the restoration time will fast when specific TM contractor also a unifi customer at the faulty area, not TM staff.

I think the person you were talking to don't know shit. If the ONU lose power, it will send a dying gasp to the OLT. The OLT Manager will know it is your ONU that loses power.
If a branch on the optical spliter is cut, all ONUs from that branch will lose sync simultaneously. The operator can see a bunch of ONUs going offline at the exact same time, all without dying gasp.

Can do auto report using easy fix in myunifi app if ur internet suddenly disconnect.

I wonder if Fahmi and his MCMC gang are doing something to secure DNS providers again.......

Their actions last time sure said a lot about it.

I wont say what he said had happen, we need further clarification from actual 500Mbps users. Then we can come into conclusion.

Like I said, if default most customer to DNS with safety filter on, I am fine.
It also can filter adult content like the MCMC want, lol.

https://one.one.one.one/family/
Malware Blocking Only
Malware and Adult Content Blocking Together

For me, I will only said, so far the problem is TVbox abusing the line by p2p anywhere, then there is ppl keep burst forcing leak account and causing many TM's IPv4 banned.

Anyways, I hope they reallow verified business to send their SMS TAC, it is stupid to cut off all SMS TAC for protection of Malaysian, just because link is not allowed in SMS...
As they already moving on fishing old people in WhatsApp, SMS is not their main target liao.