Router Delivery..

You'll need more than an access point as what you connect has to do the PPPoE authentication.

If you have a good size letter box the router may drop through.

In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

is that right?

I couldn't possibly comment.

I would give them a call and tell them the router has not arrived and your install date is close. They should know when it was despatched so if it has been lost in post they can get another to you. They send it 1st class so after despatch you should get it next day.

Plusnet is not a "Managed install". The engineer is not required to install the user's router, merely check the modem connection to the cabinet.

As the connection of the Technicolor router to the Plusnet routers using TR-069 is expected to take 15 minutes, the engineer isn't likely to hang around.

There's nothing to stop you using your own at "Minute 1". Test the PN one some other time, after a few days running, if you do, so you know you have a working standby if yours fails later.

Edited by RobertoS (Wed 21-May-14 11:00:04)

Hi pcoventry76,

You should receive the router a couple days prior to the install date. The router package is designed to fit through a standard sized letter box. If you want to send me a private message with your username I can take a look at that for you though?

Regards,

Exactly what Access Point are you intending to use?

@ pcoventry76 when is your fibre installation date? Good luck to your new plusnet FTTC.

Edited by deleted (Wed 21-May-14 15:47:23)

In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

Hi mate,

thanks it's the 28th.

Not long now. Only a week to go. I am fuming with Virgin Media for final cheque as they owed me £78 and they say it will be sent after 90 days after disconnected! [censored]!

Edited by adslmax (Wed 21-May-14 15:48:21)

In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

I was hoping to use a TP Link WR1043ND ? http://routers.awordpress.net/routers/hard-reset-tpl...

Which has DD-WRT on it.

Should be fine in router mode, WAN port to the Openreach modem and configure PPPoE with your Plusnet login. It won't be an AP then, but a full router/switch/AP in one.

Yesterday, I received a Brightbox 2 in advance of an upgrade to FTTC, with EE/Orange.

On the outer "slip" cover-
"
FRAGILE
PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME OUTSIDE!

IF MY NEW OWNER IS NOT AT HOME
JUST POST ME THROUGH THE
LETTERBOX
"
Where-as the BB1 came in a padded envelope and passed through the Letterbox without any problems, this BB2 is slightly thicker, say 3 mm (1/8th inch) and about 50% longer, in a significant cardboard box, with the outer wrapper, so would not pass through the slot.

The main problem is the increased thickness, a band across the top-middle, that has the various warning LEDs mounted in it.

Seems a decided backward step.

Welcome abroad your new FTTC.

In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

Real broadband at last!

FTTC? Possibly, to some. Still susceptible to problems such as cross-talk and REIN.

Nothing like a bit of FTTP

In reply to a post by Rastus:

Nothing like a bit of FTTP

Who care about FTTP! lol