Connected Community/Instant On - Differences vs. typical ATT fiber setup?

If your moving into a connected community with fiber, yes… however the fiber and equipment is generally positioned in either a bedroom closet, laundry area, or coat closet depending on where the fiber was run. May have Ethernet lines from that location to other rooms.

If an older building upgraded generally the fiber is to the living room with no other wiring used… everything wireless unless have a tv or computer station in the living space.

When looking at location considering moving to ask and notice how existing fiber is installed.

If the building is G.Fast that is fiber to the main distribution where fiber equipment is located and you have an Ethernet cable to your unit… part of a shared structure. 

Initially (2017) G.Fast in limited markets but since has become more mainstream instead of fiber to each unit. These installs receive a Rokus instead of BGW320. 

https://www.ruckusnetworks.com/products/wireless-access-points/

They definitely provide fiber/ fiber plans, but I'm not sure about how everything is hooked up. The first two situations I can work with. I'm hoping G.fast with ethernet to my unit doesn't mean I'm sharing ipv6 or ipv4 space with the rest of the community.

For the G.fast situations, it's an ethernet cable to my unit that will either plug into a provided BGW320 or a ruckus, correct? And will I still be a unique "node" on the network with my own public ipv4 and ipv6 /60 on the router itself?

It's my understanding that communities have a "menu" of possibilities depending on what they want, how much they're willing to pay, and what technology AT&T wanted to install when they signed up.  What you'll get depends on your community.  I've heard of situations where a customer was having issues getting his own unique IPv4 because the community didn't buy individual IPs for all the units, and it took a bunch of discussions between him, AT&T and the Apartment management just to get to the point of finding that out.

You'll need to work with the Community Management, which will likely have no idea how to answer the questions you have, or who to call at AT&T to get the answers.

So I had a chance to check out the place. They've got fiber lines from the wall directly connected to BGW320-505s in every apartment unit via SFP (so direct GPON or XGS-PON I believe). The unit is also wired for in wall ethernet from the network closet. With this setup I think my BGW320 gateway should receive its own public ipv4 and ipv6 /60. Has anyone experienced anything different with direct fiber to the BGW320-505?

In the worst case they have other fiber providers like xfinity, and while I would prefer to stick with att, if they don't give me the ip space I want I can hopefully go with someone else.