Plusnet Hub One upgrade with Edgerouter X + UAP Lite

Dumphole · 25 Feb 2018 at 20:28

Hi guys,

My net connection is pretty limited (its the best I can get in the this area though) and I need to protect my bit of it so I can carry on getting owned online.

Having watched Battlenonsense I have started accruing the bits to put an Edgerouter X and UAP-Lite into my home.

I presume (as I'm completely new to networking) I'd plug my VDSL hub one into Eth0 and the UAP into Eth5 (with POE in between)?

I'm dreading the config setup but I'm sure I'll get there. Does anyone know what connection setting PlusNet goes with? The man on the plusnet help chat believes its a PPPOE type?

Dumphole · 25 Feb 2018 at 22:14

His the hub one no good simply as a router? Its the same has the bt hh5 I think.

Dumphole · 25 Feb 2018 at 22:23

Ah, I was lead to believe the hub one would be purely on modem duties and allowing the erx to manage the traffic.

Dumphole · 27 Feb 2018 at 13:14

Will I see any benefit by using the hg612? If so I’ll crack on with setting up the ERX with my hub one and if successful I’ll replace that with an hg612

Dumphole · 27 Feb 2018 at 17:38

What’s that?

Dumphole · 28 Feb 2018 at 10:56

I see, well I have an hg612 on the way and from what I’ve seen it could well be plug and play.

I’ll still make sure I can get things working with the erx/hub one first then quickly include the hg after. I don’t want to take on too big a challenge when I can break it down.

Dumphole · 28 Feb 2018 at 11:41

Yes I’m just discovering that. I’ve set the erx up as instructed but no net access via the erx/hh route.

Dumphole · 28 Feb 2018 at 12:48

Yes it’s on it’s way out. The hg612 should be with me in the next couple of days.

I have the uap-lite running though (via the hh) and it’s excellent.

Dumphole · 10 Mar 2018 at 11:30

Well I went with the Draytek v 130 into the ERX in the end and its working perfectly. Thank you all for the suggestions!

Dumphole · 10 Mar 2018 at 14:48

I’ve not had any rubber banding or odd missed shots since the change so I’d say yes it’s worth it.