Setting up your own router for Plusnet Fibre Extra

All being well, BT Openreach visit after midday tomorrow and we move over to Fibre. Thing is: I've received the router from Plusnet but don't want to use it. I would rather use my trusty Billion 7800n instead. It's the only router I've owned in ten years that's capable of delivering wireless to the entire house. But I can't find a setup guide anywhere. Help?

http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/hardware/broad...

I saw that but I thought it couldn't be right because it's so minimalistic. Bear in mind I've never used Fibre before. When I put the router in EWAN/PPoE mode, I have these options. Do any of them matter?

ETA: Never mind. I finally found more specific instructions on the Plusnet forum.

Edited by deleted (Thu 11-Sep-14 20:45:02)

Those look OK presuming you want to continue using Google's DNS.

In reply to a post by leej:

I saw that but I thought it couldn't be right because it's so minimalistic. Bear in mind I've never used Fibre before. When I put the router in EWAN/PPoE mode, I have these options. Do any of them matter?

Username is your [email protected] ID and password is your plusnet password.

NAT you need to enable. Service name you leave blank. Obtain DNS you should either have enabled automatic, or entered your preferred replacement. Using non ISP DNS can make some sites slow (e.g. those that use Content Distribution Networks such as Akamai, such as Google, Netflix, Apple etc).

Connection is Always on, MTU is 1500. Everything else off, and IPv6 hopefully eventually.

I didn't go for the plusnet router and use my own ASUS RT-AC68U instead

Isp list: ADSL_BT
PVC: 0/38
Connection Type: PPPoE
Encapsulation Mode: VCMUX
L2 Interface Type: VDSL2
Enable Vlan: Enabled
VID: (1-4094): 101
PPPoE or PPPoA: PPPoE

with plusnet username and password

Bt engineer is due to arrive any time now and I've just printed all of these posts out in case any contain something I missed. Thanks guys. See you on the other side hopefully.

In reply to a post by leej:

Bt engineer is due to arrive any time now and I've just printed all of these posts out in case any contain something I missed. Thanks guys. See you on the other side hopefully.

good luck let us know how u get on?

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A BT engineer to help set up your Billion?

Or has a line fault been found that I have missed?

In reply to a post by leej:

All being well, BT Openreach visit after midday tomorrow and we move over to Fibre. Thing is: I've received the router from Plusnet but don't want to use it.

Pity you paid them to deliver it to you then

A BT engineer is coming to install fibre and the modem.

Once he's done that and gone, I can setup my trusty 7800n because I don't want to use Plusnet's Technicolor router.

Sure will! thanks again.

It's called a backup router.

I've had too many routers die on me over the years so I always accept the ISP router just in case.

Also, I don't know whether Plusnet are like other ISPs in this respect, but I always needed to plug the ISPs router into the line in the past if I wanted tech support to help me - even when the router obviously wasn't at fault.

Edited by deleted (Fri 12-Sep-14 13:45:33)

In reply to a post by leej:

Also, I don't know whether Plusnet are like other ISPs in this respect, but I always needed to plug the ISPs router into the line in the past if I wanted tech support to help me - even when the router obviously wasn't at fault.

I am not aware that that has ever been the case with Plusnet. Anyway, the router is not compulsory so it can't be.

Well, that was underwhelming.

Edit:

I'm getting 20 down. 12 up. with the Technicolor.
I'm getting 26 down 18 up with the Billion 7800n.

Plusnet estimated I would get 72Mbps down.

I have no idea how to check the actual sync speed so I'm relying on speedtest.net

I'm not sure what the modulation type is supposed to be. Everywhere says VDSL2 or G993.2 but I don't have those as options.

Edited by deleted (Fri 12-Sep-14 16:31:47)

Ah, never mind. Please ignore the above.

It looks like the Realtek LAN adapter in one of my desktops is faulty.

On the other desktop I'm getting 70Mbps down while upstream is wavering somewhere between 16 and 18Mbps.

So, I'm happy. Thanks again for all the help.

In reply to a post by leej:

I'm not sure what the modulation type is supposed to be. Everywhere says VDSL2 or G993.2 but I don't have those as options.

There isn't a modulation when you use an ethernet WAN port on a router. (Strange that Billion use the term EWAN) That is all handled by the Openreach modem.

Edited by jchamier (Fri 12-Sep-14 21:15:22)

Thanks. It's all sorted now.

I'm much happier with these speeds.