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Have you all transitioned over to using wap3 now?

I had my new router installed today and noticed it now has different wireless modes.

I'm using wap2 but notice there is a wap3 option.

I tried to switch over to it but my laptop disconnected and prompted me for a password when I tried to connect.

The reason why I am reluctant is I don't want to swap over all the devices etc and have to type the password in... a million times.
 
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Rroff said:
BT swapped my parent's over to digital voice today - only they've not bothered to send an updated hub or any adapter so their landline is dead, meanwhile they can't be bothered to update the area to full fibre either - I thought they weren't switching anyone to digital voice who didn't have full fibre.

EDIT: Actually turns out they were sent an updated hub ages ago which does support digital voice but at the time there was no plans to switchover so it got put to one side/no one realised there was any relevance.
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You just need a digit voice adapter.
 
opethdisciple said:
Have you all transitioned over to using wap3 now?

I had my new router installed today and noticed it now has different wireless modes.

I'm using wap2 but notice there is a wap3 option.

I tried to switch over to it but my laptop disconnected and prompted me for a password when I tried to connect.

The reason why I am reluctant is I don't want to swap over all the devices etc and have to type the password in... a million times.
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I've defaulted to WPA3 where possible, of course.
And yes, you absolutely have to re-authenticate.
 
I was out walking the dog earlier and walked past the openreach cabinet round the corner and noticed that the door has been left wide open.

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I did push it to so that it wasn't immediately obvious to anyone who may be tempted to start pulling wires out. I guess it needs a key to properly close it though
 
During the week a card dropped through the door saying ftth was available, only problem is six months ago when our area went from not in the up to 2028 roadmap to december 2024 virgin phoned up while i was at work offering my old man new 12month deal that was tacked on to the end of the six month left on the current contract, so watch out for those sneaky snakes.
 
Has anyone had problem getting the ipv6 lease lately? Last night there was a power outage somehow, and my router rebooted, since then, I'm not getting ipv6 from the PPPoE link. There's no obvious error in the log...
 
BusError said:
Has anyone had problem getting the ipv6 lease lately? Last night there was a power outage somehow, and my router rebooted, since then, I'm not getting ipv6 from the PPPoE link. There's no obvious error in the log...
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Nope. I've had zero issues with ipv6, surprisingly so I still don't get the point of it though if we're still using ipv4 as well.
 
robj20 said:
Nope. I've had zero issues with ipv6, surprisingly so I still don't get the point of it though if we're still using ipv4 as well.
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I fixed my problem. I had tightened the firewall a while back and was blocking dhcp6 packets. oops :-)

I ignored ipv6 for many years, but now for work it's actually quite handy to reach some "non internet facing" equipment in some cases; it is otherwise a waste of bandwidth, and a royal pain to work with with these stupid long hex addresses :-)
 
opethdisciple said:
Having been upgraded to fibre about 4 weeks ago I find downloading things from Steam really ramps up the CPU usage on my pc.
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That's normal in fact I'm pretty sure I've watched a video that shows Steam can become CPU limited given a fast enough network connection. It's the unpacking of the compressed files.
 
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I'm having sky(openreach) fttp installed in two weeks and have a question.

I know they need to add an additional box(ONT?) for the fibre termination, the problem is that I need the router in a different room, towards the back of the house, just because all my network stuff is there and I know that they will put the ONT box at the front of the house close to the original telephone line.

The question is does the lan cable that joins the router to the ONT box have to be anything special or will a standard Cat5e do? It needs to be 20m long if that makes a difference; I don't think it should but I'm not sure.
 
hominid said:
I'm having sky(openreach) fttp installed in two weeks and have a question.

I know they need to add an additional box(ONT?) for the fibre termination, the problem is that I need the router in a different room, towards the back of the house, just because all my network stuff is there and I know that they will put the ONT box at the front of the house close to the original telephone line.

The question is does the lan cable that joins the router to the ONT box have to be anything special or will a standard Cat5e do? It needs to be 20m long if that makes a difference; I don't think it should but I'm not sure.
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You tell them where to put the ONT, mines in the cupboard under the stairs. Standard cat5e is fine.
 
hominid said:
I'm having sky(openreach) fttp installed in two weeks and have a question.

I know they need to add an additional box(ONT?) for the fibre termination, the problem is that I need the router in a different room, towards the back of the house, just because all my network stuff is there and I know that they will put the ONT box at the front of the house close to the original telephone line.

The question is does the lan cable that joins the router to the ONT box have to be anything special or will a standard Cat5e do? It needs to be 20m long if that makes a difference; I don't think it should but I'm not sure.
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Generally i feel that installers are far more amenable to running fibre on the outside of the house than inside, as long as there is not crap in their way. My installer though not O.R had no issue running the fibre around the outside of the house to where i wanted it.
 
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