Connect to Alcatel Lucent 7330 ONT

[htmlboss]

Howdy peoples, here is bit of a different question for y'all:

I'm subscribed to the ludicrously overpriced (~$300/month) BellAliant FibreOP service in Atlantic Canada and I have been trying for the past week to get into the Alcatel-Lucent ONT to remove the dumb bandwidth cap (QoS policy) so I can actually upload large amounts of data to my VPS in a reasonable timeframe. Before I'm told to "get a better package" or "tough luck m8", or even "you should be thankful for your internet in the first place" [censored], think about this: Google Fibre is 1Gbps up AND down for almost 20% of what I'm paying for 300mbps down and 50 up. I hate their monopoly (and I'm not the only one) and I just want my money's worth.

Would anyone here have any prior experience dealing with this ONT (or something similar) to give me some pointers to connect to the darn thing in the first place? The manuals from Alcatel-Lucent have stated to connect to it on Port 1 and set a static IP address on my laptop's ethernet adapter to 192.168.4.1 and I can either telnet or access the web gui via 192.168.4.254. Obviously it didn't work (no surprise to me). I also acquired the OmniPCX software from the same company that apparently is used to connect to it and change settings.

Here are the manuals:
General Manual
Operations Manual

BTW. I'm not a noob in networking, I am just unfamiliar with Fibre Networks

 

[Alabalcho]

You've signed a contract. You agreed to the terms. Now, you want us to help you break the rules, because you don't like them? Next you'll ask us to help you break into your neighbor house, because he has better TV than yours...

Why do you think that the "bandwidth cap" is in the ONT, and not at the ISP level?

 

[InvalidError]

If Bell have configured their end of things right, bandwidth limits should be further enforced at the OLT's end since the GPON line card is responsible for scheduling upstream slots.

 

[bill001g]

It greatly depends on how the system works and I am too lazy to dig around to find out. In the simplest system you ont may allow you to send at unlimited rates but when the data arrives on the far end they just drop anything over the limit. On many system but primarily cable the end device in your house send a small message when it has data to transmit asking the main site for permission. It is then granted a window of time to send a certain block of data. This is fundamental to how these systems work and you can not modify it the central unit is always in control.

It is highly unlikely they would be dumb enough to put the limitation in a local device that has the ability to be modified.