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I thought I would explain how I removed the Vodafone router and replaced with a Netgear NightHawk. I've gone through this pain so I hope this helps you as best as I can in an easy guide.
What you need to start - ur username and password from Vodafone, a laptop or comp which you can connect directly to the router, a spare network cable - about 15 mins time.
1. Contact Vodafone support - I did this online via chat and asked for my username and password to use my own router. After some back and forth. It should be something like dslXXXXXXX (AT) broadband.vodafone.co.uk and then password Xahrgrbs45 - something like that - both of these aren't my actual details.
2. Turn off ur Vodafone router and remove the network cable plugged into WLAN port on the rear. This network cable should be connected to the small black box which was installed by Vodafone, this is providing your internet from the street.
3. Turn on your new Netgear router - make sure this is reset, no details held on it. Plug in your WLAN cable from the Vodafone router into the Netgear port market "internet"
4. Using a laptop or computer, connect a network cable from ur laptop to the rear of the Netgear router into a free port marked 1, 2 or 3. This means ur laptop can now connect directly to the router.
5. On the laptop - open a browser window and go to www.routerlogin.net - you may need to create an account - I had to change the Admin login with a new password to sign in.
6. Once you have signed in to the www.routerlogin.net - click on internet in the left section - scroll down and select PPPoE from the "Internet Service Provider" drop down. In the login section enter the username and password provided from Vodafone support team.
7. Now make sure to click on advanced in the menu section - normally on the left of the screen - select "advanced setup" - scroll down to you can see VLAN / BRIDGE SETTINGS and click on this
8. Click on "enable VLAN & Bridge Mode
9. Click the small button to enable the line - click edit, now on the VLAN line - enter 911 - priority - 0
Now hit "APPLY"
10. Let the router reboot and connect - that should be it
You have now replaced the Vodafone router with your nighthawk. What's important is that you can't use the app to setup this router at the start because you can't include the VLAN number during setup without a direct connection - hence the laptop and network cable connection being required. Once this is complete and you have a network, now you can sign in on the app using ur admin / password which you created when first visiting the routerlogin page.
VLAN - 911 - I only know this from the support pages here - I'm in Northampton and 911 works perfectly, I've seen others mention this on the page for many other areas - that's my only caution part. Everything else works great. I'm also don't this setup for a Linksys Velop - but the app allowed me to actual enter the VLAN at setup, on the app which was way easier than Netgear.
I hope this helps.
Hi JSteve303,
I am currently trying to setup a Nightgear Nighthawk RAX40 Router. And I think you have (fingers crossed) solved my issue as I think I was messing up adding the VLAN:911, as you can see below:
I will copy your exact settings and see how it goes.
Thanks,
Tom
