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Does the latest ONT's have battery backup?

Joe33158 — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 14:46:25 GMT

As per title. Does the latest ONT's have battery backup?

Just wondering if they do or not as I use a UPS and hopefully the engineer will be able to put the ONT beside all my other network gear in the living room including my UPS.

Re: Does the latest ONT's have battery backup?

imjolly — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 15:12:06 GMT

Openreach do not provide battery backup any longer

Re: Does the latest ONT's have battery backup?

Joe33158 — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 15:13:46 GMT

Cheers my friend👍

Re: Does the latest ONT's have battery backup?

WelshDave — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 10:22:22 GMT

Is it possible to purchase a third party BBU that will work with it ?

Re: Does the latest ONT's have battery backup?

iniltous — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 10:33:30 GMT

If the mains supply fails then the ONT will have no power ( so no service ) , you could buy a uninterruptible power supply (UPS/BBU) and plug the ONT into that so that in the event of a main fail the ONT keeps working ( for a while ) , obviously the router would need to also be plugged into a UPS and depending on the phone instrument that could need power too

Re: Does the latest ONT's have battery backup?

Joe33158 — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 10:33:46 GMT

@WelshDavewrote:
Is it possible to purchase a third party BBU that will work with it ?

It's no problem anyway mate as it's just running of my UPS, the UPS I have just powers my network gear and my 2 Synology NAS's which are set to auto shut down if a power failure occurs, which is why I bought it in the first place to protect my expensive HDD's and data. I'm only using 13% of the UPS so during an outage it gives me about 2 1/2 hours up time before powering down altogether, hopefully by that time the main power will have returned to normal 🙂

Re: Does the latest ONT's have battery backup?

Joe33158 — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 10:36:41 GMT

@iniltouswrote:
If the mains supply fails then the ONT will have no power ( so no service ) , you could buy a uninterruptible power supply (UPS/BBU) and plug the ONT into that so that in the event of a main fail the ONT keeps working ( for a while ) , obviously the router would need to also be plugged into a UPS and depending on the phone instrument that could need power too

As stated in my original post I already use a UPS mate🙂