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HOW TO: Use a third party router on Vodafone VDSL

jonnywombat
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On Firday afternoon Vodafone UK sent a corporate email telling their support team that they can now give out Broadband username and passwords.

 

I have now set up my own router, and here's what i did.

 

Step 1 Ring VF on 08080034515 and get your username and password. The support team member then emailed me my Log in info.

 

Step 2 Swap your router. Keep your VF router in case you ever get an issue and need tech support as they will not support your 3rd party device

 

Step 3 In your routers web interface access the WAN settings. Set connection type to PPPoE, enter username and password and leave all settings as default EXCEPT enable 802.1Q and set Vlan tag to 101.

 

Step 4 Save settings and apply. Your router should now connect to VF. Mine took a couple of minutes to get a connection and another couple from the router showing it was connected to actually being able to access the net

 

Step 5 After a few minutes the connection dropped, and it would not connect again. After investigation I was told this is to do with VF registering your router on there network. Hard reset your router. Power it down remove the power cord for 30 seconds and power back on.

 

Step 6 Enjoy

 

This is just based on my experience of setting up my router ASUS DSL-AC68U, YMMV. However the ASUS is syncd at 73.6meg, when the VF router syncd at 72.1 and I have noticed a marked improvment in performance.

 

HTH someone

 

Jonny

 

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for some reason i noticed that the username had two @ symbols, changed this and waited and suddenly it came to life

 

 


@boltonlad2kwrote:

hi

 

i too am trying to setup my hh5 which worked ok on sky, but struggling on vodafone. i get errors of unable to connect to pppoe, i really want to use the built in modem bit do have openreach modem too, any suggestions


Not sure what settings you have on the standard HH5 but maybe something in the link to the LEDE loaded HH% set up might give a setting you missed.

Ah! Well done

Nope, using a Home Hub 5 with Lede installed I get significantly faster speeds, as did (last I heard) another user on this thread who switched to one after using a different router from that 'list'. Up from low 20's to mid 30's, and dropouts stopped.

Yup. My Asus RT-88AC reports speeds of around 52MBPs at best. Suspiciously, the VF router reports speeds of 56MBps - just high enough to pass the slow broadband threshold.

 

Not impressed.

WookieeV
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Do they use the IPVT connection as well as the Internet connection?

I'm trying to get my setup working now however I have a Static public IP address assigned by Vodafone.

I'm using a HG612 Openreach modem with a Netgear R6400 router but not getting internet! 

Has anybody done this with a static IP address before? Thanks!

 

 

Is the modem making a connection?

Does the router require Pass through configured or have you connected via the yellow port on the rear?


@WookieeV wrote:

Is the modem making a connection?

Does the router require Pass through configured or have you connected via the yellow port on the rear?


The modem seems to be working as the DSL light is solid green, so I have the modem connected to the DSL socket and then LAN1 on the modem connected to the WAN port on the router.

What method are you using to establish client wide IP addresses?

If DHCP what device is acting as a DHCP server?