AAAAARRRGHHHHHH!! So close....yet so far
Openreach Engineer came this morning, took him 30 seconds to activate the ONT. Great, I now have a solid green PON light. But my router won't connect as there should be a pure unadulterated internet connection coming from LAN1 on the ONT...or so I thought. The Engineer tried his own BT router and no luck with that either. He speaks to fibre provisioning team, they say despite the service being on a BT Wholesale network, the service will need to be authenticated to Fluidone's Radius servers, ie I need PPPoE authentication on the router. This was also confirmed when I factory reset my Netgear X10 and then placed it in 'auto-sense connection' mode to the ONT, it asked me for PPPoE login details.
I then called Fluidone, they say i MUST use their pre-configured Juniper SRX 300 firewall and being on a 'managed install' means they will not supply me with PPPoE login details. So i basically need to hook up the Nighthawk X10 to the SRX300 which is connected to the ONT. I did originally plan to sell off the free SRX 300 on ebay if i could avoid using it but that plan's gone down the drain...with a potential loss of ~ £500 LOL. Anyway Fluidone posted the SRX300 a few days ago but apparently DPD couldn't deliver it and didn't even have the courtesy to leave a missed delivery card. So will try to pick up the firewall later on from the DPD depot in Inverness.
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