New router for Vodafone FTTP

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I've just switched from BT to Vodafone as I got offered a very good deal (£38pm for 900 vs £58 on BT).

All working wonderfully apart from it seems the Vodafone THG3000 is absolute rubbish and has seemingly broken my local network. Non elf my smb shares work properly, Plex doesn't work and my shared printers don't work. Looking online it seems this is a common problem and If I connect my old BT hub my network works fine again.

Most of my network is wired and I have AP's dotted round the house. Usually I just connect the ISP router and disable wifi and off we go but not this Time :(


Could someone recommend a cheap and easy to use router I could buy. Wired only is fine if needed
 
And the BT Hub isn’t an option because? Double NAT? Want new and shiny?

Which access points do you have? If you have UniFi then get a USG, if you have TP-link then get an Omada router etc.
 
WJA96 said:
And the BT Hub isn’t an option because? Double NAT? Want new and shiny?

Which access points do you have? If you have UniFi then get a USG, if you have TP-link then get an Omada router etc.
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Yeah I thought Double Nat was not a good idea?

I've actually sorted it now. Managed to come across a TP-Link Archer C6 for £18 with a coupon so thought it was worth a go as a cheap option for now.

It came last night and everything is running as it should again. Really don't understand what the Vodafone router was doing to break everything.
 
From what you've described it sounds like the issue is that the Vodafone router is using a different internal IP range than the BT router did. It doesn't sound like a hardware problem so could have probably been resolved just by changing the LAN side IP range that the Vodafone router uses.

You said it was working when the BT router was connected, how was it connected? Was it in addition to, or in place of the Vodafone router? If it was instead of the Vodafone router than there wouldn't have been any double NAT.
 
the-evaluator said:
From what you've described it sounds like the issue is that the Vodafone router is using a different internal IP range than the BT router did. It doesn't sound like a hardware problem so could have probably been resolved just by changing the LAN side IP range that the Vodafone router uses.

You said it was working when the BT router was connected, how was it connected? Was it in addition to, or in place of the Vodafone router? If it was instead of the Vodafone router than there wouldn't have been any double NAT.
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It wasn't the IP's causing issues. Everything obtained the correct IP address as they should and all devices had internet access. It was issues on the local network really I even re set up a printer from scratch, everything connected fine, shows up fine in windows but when actually printing to it nothing. As soon as I changed back to the BT hub (no internet but the internal network was working again).

There seemed to also be problems with UPNP not working and even manual port forwarding. The router said it was done but it wasn't.
 
the-evaluator said:
Ah yes, good point. So I assume that switching back to using the BT router was actually switching back to the BT internet connection too.
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You could do the thing where you turn DHCP off on the BT Hub and connect it via a LAN port to the Vodafone one, and then turn off the Wi-Fi on the Vodafone router. It's a bit clunky.
 
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