Moving to TT fibre, can I keep using HG612/RT-N56U setup?

ron3003 · 3 Mar 2019 at 13:47

As the thread title I'm now coming to the end of my 18month contract with Vodaphone FTTC and have decided to move to TalkTalk FTTC.
Current setup is unlocked HG612 modem coupled with my trusty Asus RT-N56U router. Anybody using this combo on TT? Will it be simply a case of re-running the Asus auto setup to connect to TT? Does the type of connection setting need changing on the modem?
I've tried googling this and seen some people saying there's no need to enter any TT passwords on the router and others saying I'd need to know login details.
Any help much appreciated guys

mrkev · 3 Mar 2019 at 14:10

When I was on TT it was DHCP. No username or password required . I also used the HG612 as a modem .

ron3003 · 5 Mar 2019 at 08:33

Thanks mrkev, TT is due to go live on the 19th so we'll see what happens. I'm not keen on using the isp supplied router if I can help it, Vodafones unit caused DLM to kick in before I could get my login details from them and the line's still banded now

LuckyWig · 5 Mar 2019 at 09:42

TalkTalk use IPOE, not sure if your current setup will support it. I could not get my pfSense to work with it and had to setup nat on a tp-link router.

PiKe · 5 Mar 2019 at 09:50

With a Draytek and a Openreach modem, I have to set the draytek to dhcp on the WAN2 but there is no issue with double nat or anything like that.

I don't see why it wouldn't work the same for you.

skyripper · 5 Mar 2019 at 11:03

LuckyWig said:
TalkTalk use IPOE, not sure if your current setup will support it. I could not get my pfSense to work with it and had to setup nat on a tp-link router.

I've got HG612 and pfsense doing IPoE (with TalkTalk).
It's a bit of a faff, but is doable.

thenewoc · 5 Mar 2019 at 12:23

Just switched to TT and I have an ECI OR modem with the LAN1 port of that connected to the WAN port on a Mikrotik router. The router is just set to Automatic under Internet settings so it acquires a DHCP IP, subnet and gateway from TT via the modem.

ron3003 · 19 Mar 2019 at 12:13

Just to clear up my switch happened this morning, simply reset the router by pressing the tiny button on the back then ran the setup wizard choosing automatic ip (dhcp) when prompted and all is back up running as previously but now on talktalk.
Bonus point for removing the banding which had been applied by DLM after thunderstorms last summer