BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

APM · 9 Mar 2017 at 21:14

pcfarrar said:
Which model of Asus router? I can confirm it works fine with a HG612 and Asus rt-ac68u once you change the iptv settings in the routers web interface.

Think it's a RT N-56U but could be a 66U ,has Padavan firmware on it which means I can have my guest networks set up and DNS how I like it.
Not looked at IPTV settings in there but will check that soon.

Thanks.

pcfarrar · 9 Mar 2017 at 22:53

bremen1874 said:
If you're after a VDSL capable router for £50 I think you'll struggle.

TP Link W9970 for £33. Broadcom chipset and pretty decent for the low price.

Pho · 10 Mar 2017 at 00:02

varkanoid said:
They probably reseated the DLI card. Its the BT equivalent of turning your PC off/on to fix it.

Oh OK. Funnily enough we've just been dealing with Microsoft because our Azure SQL instance started failing transactions with nasty errors. They "mitigated" the problem by just rebooting the problematic node

APM · 10 Mar 2017 at 10:18

Looking at these openreach modems and there appears to be two choices,the Huawei and the ECi.

Huawei is the Chinese equivalent of GCHQ isn't it?

Why in gawds name would you use a bit of kit built by them?

pcfarrar · 10 Mar 2017 at 10:26

APM said:
Looking at these openreach modems and there appears to be two choices,the Huawei and the ECi.
Huawei is the Chinese equivalent of GCHQ isn't it?
Why in gawds name would you use a bit of kit built by them?

You don't have to use an openreach modem. You could buy a TP-Link W9970 and run it in bridge mode as a modem. They are currently £29.99.

NightSt@lk3r · 10 Mar 2017 at 10:49

Had a resync this morning and now G.INP is showing as active on my upstream as well, when did they start re rolling out G.INP on upstream?

APM · 10 Mar 2017 at 11:34

pcfarrar said:
You don't have to use an openreach modem. You could buy a TP-Link W9970 and run it in bridge mode as a modem. They are currently £29.99.

Thanks.

varkanoid · 10 Mar 2017 at 12:55

APM said:
Also will using an old router affect the BT TV in any way,like **** it up?

yes it may have an affect on the internet channels you need to make sure you buy one thats known to work.
eg the Asus RC68u had one/two options for this but I couldnt get the UHD channel to play no matter what I did so went back to HH6.

APM · 10 Mar 2017 at 13:00

I have an Asus RT-N65U running the latest Padavan firmware but have been thinking of upgrading to a 66U recently.

Looks like I'll get an openreach modem,plug in the Asus and see what happens.

Lot more complicated than Virgin,simple plug and play operation there.

V_R · 10 Mar 2017 at 13:45

HG612 and N66U (Merlin FW) here, its been a rock solid combo for years.

APM · 10 Mar 2017 at 16:34

V_R said:
HG612 and N66U (Merlin FW) here, its been a rock solid combo for years.

Is that plug and play or are there settings that need putting in place?

V_R · 10 Mar 2017 at 18:35

Just the usual ISP details, DNS etc. nothing out of the ordinary.

APM · 10 Mar 2017 at 18:39

Thanks for that,I may need to pester you when the modem arrives though.

Actually,what details are those?

Generic bt email address or something more relevant to an account?

V_R · 10 Mar 2017 at 18:48

Ah to be clear, I'm on Zen (and Plusnet before them) not BT - no details needed for the modem.

In the router you will obviously need your ISP's login details and any thing else you want to use, Google DNS for example.

Though my modem is unlocked and I can log into it too see the stats. I did turn off QoS on the modem, other than that nothing changed.

APM · 10 Mar 2017 at 19:33

I like open nic dns though I am considering trying cryptostorm.

I'll have a pop at it when the modem get here,thanks for your answers though.

TJM · 12 Mar 2017 at 13:42

APM said:
Thanks for that,I may need to pester you when the modem arrives though.

Actually,what details are those?

Generic bt email address or something more relevant to an account?

I'm using the same hardware combo on BT. The router will need the generic username [email protected] during setup. If it insists on a password, 'password' will do. The Merlin firmware needs no other settings changed to connect.

ChrisD. · 13 Mar 2017 at 10:20

APM said:
Huawei is the Chinese equivalent of GCHQ isn't it?

No.

Lisapete · 13 Mar 2017 at 13:19

This my spare test line at work. Sadly the ISDN cable route is a strange one, runs along side some AC power cables. There are some other issues with it as well we've found. Speed keeps dropping. A new cable has been order, 15m and ADSL filter as the main socket has a STD faceplate on it. The router is an TP-Link TL-WR841N and the test is over wifi. I'm about 50ft away.

APM · 13 Mar 2017 at 18:40

What spe

Lisapete said:
This my spare test line at work. Sadly the ISDN cable route is a strange one, runs along side some AC power cables. There are some other issues with it as well we've found. Speed keeps dropping. A new cable has been order, 15m and ADSL filter as the main socket has a STD faceplate on it. The router is an TP-Link TL-WR841N and the test is over wifi. I'm about 50ft away.

What speeds are you supposed to be getting?

APM · 13 Mar 2017 at 18:53

ChrisD. said:
No.

Ok,that

ChrisD. said:
No.

I'm sure I read recently that Huawei are a Chinese state owned company that manufactures kit for and is heavily involved in covert data gathering so for me it's not so big a leap to say that.