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]

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@Big-Recco wrote:

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.

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I'm pretty sure you will need the PPPoE for Openreach. Probably not a VLAN, but if you do it will be 101.

For CityFibre it will be 911.

[mpstevens]

OK i've managed to unlock my Echolife HG612 and can now access the panel but unsure what to do now?

[CrimsonLiar]

We might need just a tad more info on what equipment you have and what you are trying to do!

[Ripshod]

Most mesh systems can be connected directly to the ONT. Whether yours can I cannot tell.

I'd try to avoid using another (the vf) router where you can. 

[CrimsonLiar]

If it's FTTP then using a HG613V3B won't work - I should have picked up on that before!

With the Tenda devices having seen them in action, I'd just use them as a WiFi replacement and keep the THG3000, as the Tenda devices I've seen are limited!

[Trance5200]

I tried this with my Orbi system. I am getting a fast download speed, but for some reason my uploads are maxing out at like 30Mbps. Did you have any luck?

[CrimsonLiar]

If you are on OpenReach then the FTTP upload speed will be substantially lower than the download speed.  The way to test would be to connect a device using an ethernet cable to the main/master Orbi device and then perform a speedtest.

[Trance5200]

I am with city fibre on the 900 connection. Things I have tried:

1. Connect directly to the VF hub. I get around 750Mbps down and similar upload speed on wireless (while sitting next to the hub), and get the full speed on wired. The VF hub performance deteriorates a lot as you move further away and is not enough for the whole house.

2. Connect Orbi to the VF hub as an Access Point, I get around 550 Mbps download and similar upload speed. This is consistent across the house which is not bad, but I am trying to improve that

3. Connect Orbi directly to the ONT in bridge mode with 911 as VLAN, and remove the VF hub completely. This gives noticeable bump in download speed, I can get around 650 Mbps, BUT for some reason my upload speed starts at around 130 and almost always ends at around 30 Mbps. There is clearly something weird going on. Anyone else had any luck on connecting their Orbi directly to the ONT in bridge mode?

[tigershuffle]

 Finally tried adding pppoe. Got connected to my Tenda MW12 but no internet. Not sure if I need to add anything in Advanced 😬