HOW TO: Use a third party router on Vodafone VDSL

[jonnywombat]

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

[Fraserm85]

Wish I could help you as it sounds like it is the same issue I had. And those are my screen shots. I changed the DNS back to the original settings and kept hard resetting and it somehow started working. 

I think it might be slow going through Vodafone's system or something because I literally didn't change anything just kept hard reset every now and then until it worked magically

[keithballoons]

Cheers I'll give it another go.

[machare]

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@keithballoons wrote:

Just comes up with 'check your phone line', I'll check the plusnet stuff

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If the router comes with a standard configuration for Plusnet you could use that with the Vodafone userid and password.

[machare]

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@machare wrote:

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@keithballoons wrote:

Just comes up with 'check your phone line', I'll check the plusnet stuff

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If the router comes with a standard configuration for Plusnet you could use that with the Vodafone userid and password.

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Though I think it would be worth changing the cable connecting the router to the phone line.

[keithballoons]

Tried Plusnet configs, new dsl cables  and numerous resets still won't connect. Just going to leave the BT modem in place and use the VR2800 as a router, bit of a shame but can't be bothered spending any more time trying to sort it.

[Anonymous]

before you do anything else - untick the box that says "Use the IP specified by ISP".

[WookieeV]

What if you have a fixed IP address?

[Anonymous]

If you have a fixed IP address then leaving this unticked for now will just have you allocated an IP from the pool for now.  As a rule of thumb, don't over complicate, get the cake baked before you ice it!

[WookieeV]

Did not work.

[j_g]

Hi All,

I've been trying to setup my new VR600 but I cannot get it to authenticate. Keeps telling me to check my username and password (user name has dsl then 9 numbers and using @broadband.vodafone.co.uk)

I've used the Plusnet VDSL settings as well as setting it manually (VLAD = 101) and I've had no luck. I've reset it a couple of times as well.

I've asked for my password via chat twice and got the same response, however, my password does contain an lowercase l (for Lemur), which I've seen here can be typed out incorrectly?

Any advice would be welcome as I've been doing this all evening with no success and thought it was going to be pretty easy!