FTTP -cityfibre Gigabit connected. Adding my Mesh direct to ONT or stick with VF Router?

[tigershuffle]

Hello,

I have posted before but it was all theoretical.

Had my VF FTTP Gigabit installed yesterday. All done within an hour by from telegraph pole.

My VF Router is attached to the ONT.  All working fine on Wifi.  (I dont have a landline connected)

I have a Tenda MW6 and 4 MW5 satellites dotted round the house as I make use of the ethernet out on the boxes.

From reading other posts I seem to have two choices.

a. Attach my MW6 ethernet to VF THG3000 - switch off VF Wifi and then set the MW6 from DHCP to Bridge Mode?! I will then have to switch on each satellite mesh box and add them back to the home Mesh.

b. Attach the MW6 by ethernet to ONT directly (unplugging and putting the THG3000 to one side but I would lose the USB 4g back up). I would need to contact VF to have a sign on and set the MW6 on the Tenda app to .......... DHCP? or something .....

This is where I get a little confused.     Any help appreciated.

*The current set up with Virgin works in modem mode and I have SkyQ minis attached by ethernet to the satellite MW5s. (Sky and Virgin wifi turned off).

cheers.

[Jayach]

It should all work very similar to the Virgin setup, but you will connect the Tenda direct to the ONT by Ethernet.

You will need your username and password from Vodafone, you can get that via live chat. https://www.vodafone.co.uk/bbservcd/

As you are on CityFibre you may need to know the VLAN as well, it's 911.

[tigershuffle]

thanks. This is my current set up with VM in modem mode.

Do I need to change anything if I connect directly to ONT ? Or is it plug n play after I've got the password from VF.  

 

 

[tigershuffle]

okay so I tried plugging my MW6 directly to ONT but it failed to find internet. All ONT lights were still green.

Reverted back to ethernet from MW6 to VF Router/Modem and all is fine once I switched WiFi off with the app. 

Connection according to Tenda App is still DHCP.

All seems to be working ie Xbox One by wifi and Sky Q and Minis by ethernet to MW3 satellites.

Should I change MW6 to Bridge mode?!

[CrimsonLiar]

Setting the Tenda device connected to the VF router to bridge mode should solve any future potential issues related to "double NAT", but not everyone suffers from these issues anyhow.

[cr1pps]

Did this get resolved?

I'm using Orbi Mesh at home, just had delivered the VF router for FTTP (VF900) and would rather just connect the Orbi to the ONT.

I need to request the PPoE credentials and go from there?

[CrimsonLiar]

The minimum is that you'll need your PPPoE service username and password.  You may also find that you need to use VLAN:911 on the WAN port - some do some don't - but it's pretty easy to do this on most modern Netgear equipment.

[Big-Recco]

Did you manage to get it going in the end? I am thinking of purchasing an orbi 753 mesh and would be curious to hear how you went.

[tigershuffle]

it was a fail for me....I probably either did something wrong or my Tenda stuff is cheap for a reason ☺️

I have got it working by just turning off WiFi on the Voda hub. Similar to how I had my old Virgin hub 

[Big-Recco]

I am sorting it out for my parents. It seems to be possible on similar technology on networks abroad. See link:

https://www.internode.on.net/nodesupport/guides/internet_access/nbn/fttp/netgear_orbi_rbk50

It will be a different VLAN, PPPoE for Vodafone and City Fibre of course. If on Openreach fibre, you just select DHCP. No PPPoE for Openreach, from what my research tells me.