3rd Party Router With Digital Voice

[MrC22]

Looking to make my Asus the main router and the Vodafone Hub as a passthrough. Came across the following on another forum -

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On the Smart hub disable, DHCP, Firewall, UPNP, Wifi and smart setup (everything disabled) - only connect the digital voice phone first.

Connect the Netduma to the Ethernet Port1 of the Smart Hub, then to the WAN of the Netduma. Create a static IP on the WAN setup in the Netduma, i.e 192.168.1.1, Gateway 192.168.1.254 and both DNS as 192.168.1.254 and then add that static IP to the Smart Hub 2 (192.168.1.1) place this in DMZ and also add a port fowarding Rule 1:65535 (BOTH) TCP and UDP to the static IP of the Netduma (192.168.1.1).

My Netduma then manages DHCP under 192.168.88.1

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Turn everything off

Turn on the Smart Hub 2 let it connect, check the phone is connected, the boot up the Netduma, this should then connect and allow internet access, you can then add a AP direct to the Netduma.

Any 3rd Party router should work so long as you can create a static WAN ip on that router, and then add this to the smart hub 2.

My setup has been like this for months and is working faultlessly.

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How do i go about creating a static IP on the WAN setup on the Asus router ?

Do i have to obtain the static IP from Vodafone ?

[Jayach]

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@MrC22 wrote:

Looking to make my Asus the main router and the Vodafone Hub as a passthrough.

How do i go about creating a static IP on the WAN setup on the Asus router ?

Do i have to obtain the static IP from Vodafone ?

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Yes, but I still don't think it will help with you getting the digital voice on the Vodafone router working behind another router.

However if you do get it working, please let us know, there are lots of people would like to achieve it.

[Ripshod]

Just reading that the theory falls apart a few times. Static IPs are WAN (internet) side. For LAN it's fixed IP.

You'll be struggling to get it working following those instructions. The way it's written just complicates something simple, and if you do get it working before it frustrates you it won't work well.

Why not just ditch the vodafone router altogether, use your own router on it's own and get a Grandstream ATA for the phone? Tidier and more effective. 

[MrC22]

Will Vodafone allow for that setup ?

[Ripshod]

Yes they will. They'll give you your PPPoE details without hesitation. Your SIP details can be obtained with a little work. Apparently we have rights to that info. 

[MrC22]

Ripshod i would go about obtaining the SIP details ? 

[Ripshod]

https://vodafone.co.uk/bbservcd

That's the way I did it.

Have a read here:

https://forum.vodafone.co.uk/t5/Landline/Landline-phone-with-own-router-on-FTTP/td-p/2709457/jump-to... 

[MrC22]

I followed this setup to begin with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr1qgwL6p1I

Everything was up and running well - 550+ mbps on the vodafone 500 package - and the Digital phone was all good. But then something went wrong - maybe settings i was altering in Asus or something else, i'm not sure. Couldn't be bothered doing it all again hence i did another search.

If all else fails i will give it another crack.

[Jayach]

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@MrC22 wrote:

I followed this setup to begin with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr1qgwL6p1I

Everything was up and running well - 550+ mbps on the vodafone 500 package - and the Digital phone was all good. 

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Wow, if you did get it working at least once, that gives the possibility that it could work.

Do you think you might have used the Vodafone router, after it has authenticated to Vodafone, but without powering it off, and then connected it to the other router? That way it might have had the necessary settings, but they were lost after it was power cycled at some time?

[Ripshod]

@Jayach This would be a double NAT setup with the members own router behind the vodafone router which is connected to the ONT. I know, it's that quoted text is so badly written.