Comments on: Notes on ZTE ZXHN F601 GPON ONT

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:50:45 +0000

Tengo problemas con esta onu ya que casi todas me marcan la potencia de retorno súper alta pasado los -30DBM. Alguien que me ayuden porfavor ??

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 23:37:06 +0000

That is certainly true. And while it certainly is interesting that Cellcom did not disconnect you (others have tried similar things with the Nokia G-010S-A that they purchased from Bezeq when Cellcom also provided the same SFP PON gateway, just with a different firmware revision, only to be promptly disconnected after anywhere from a few days to a few weeks), their implication that Bezeq would disconnect you was not accurate, as Bezeq would not do anything of the sort unless Cellcom themselves explicitly requested it, since you did nothing that breaks Bezeq’s TOS, but Cellcom, and Partner as well, was ignoring the legal requirement of allowing customers to use their own equipment on Bezeq’s G.PON infrastructure (back then it only applied to Bezeq’s, recently it has been expanded to all G.PON networks, with the same limitation that it has to be on the infrastructure provider’s whitelist).

By: eli

eli — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 01:29:15 +0000

You’re referring to something I mentioned at the other post. For the record, Cellcom never disconnected me, but rather implied that Bezeq would if I didn’t go back to their ONT. And as I wrote on that other post, that was three weeks after the initial installation.

By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 22:20:45 +0000

That sounds like Cellcom was purposefully preventing you from using your own PON gateway, which is in line with their policy at the time (same as Partner then), and only rectified recently.

How long did this work before they caught on and blocked your connection, forcing you to use their PON gateway instead?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 17:36:25 +0000

Thanks for your help. Works like a charm. Bfiber using fedora as my router.

By: eli

eli — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 18:47:27 +0000

If you run pppoe on Linux, it means that the ppp session is done between the Linux machine and Bezeq, directly, and the ZTE merely relays Ethernet packets from your computer to Bezeq.

So the IP address that you get from Bezeq is registered on the Linux computer directly. If that’s a fixed IP, your computer will get a fixed IP.

You may, alternatively, let the ZTE do the ppp dialing, in which case it gets the IP address, and plays NAT games with the computer’s Internet traffic. In this case, you run no pppoe on the computer, but just treat the ZTE as the default gateway (don’t know exactly how to do this). I guess that’s not what you want.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 18:37:32 +0000

OK, Got past that. Before I call Bezek and give them the SN and get a username, still not clear on the concept. Will the permanent IP I get from Bezek be assigned to the ppp interface of my linux box running pppoe? Or does it stay on the ZTE and I have to port forward everything to my box? Did not see port forwarding in the web interface.

By: eli

eli — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 11:03:31 +0000

Yup, that’s the IP address. Maybe check routing & firewall on your computer?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 10:22:10 +0000

Looks like a great solution so I bought a ZTE f601 on Ali Express.
It does not ping or respond to http in a browser at address 192.168.1.1
So I bought another one from a different supplier. $18 is nothing!
Still no response. I did a full sweep from 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255.
Of course it came with no documentation. Are you sure of its ip address?

By: Kirill

Kirill — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 23:56:55 +0000

Thank you for telling about ZTE f601, it works perfectly as a bridge.
Its built in WAN pppoe service couldn’t establish connections though – always shows “disconnect reason: ISP TIMED OUT”. I managed to setup pppoe connections only using my laptop or EdgeRouter with ZTE f601 as bridge.

John Doo, as for firmware v6.0.1P1T12 I didn’t have to select anything to use ZTE as a bridge. Just plug optic fiber into ZTE and connect ZTE to router with ethernet cable.
Also you can try connecting ZTE to you laptop with ethernet cable and check pppoe connection using pppoeconf (and plog).