Vofafone Connect Router - enable Ping on WAN interface?

Just migrated to Vodafone Connect FTTC 40/10. Migration went smoothly, but I was not aware my phone number was changing - due to LLU / full MPF I guess. A speedtest reveals I am getting near the maximum for the profile which is good, with virtually no jitter.

Setting up my TBB monitor, but it looks like the supplied router does not respond to ping on the WAN interface. Does anyone know how to change this please? Nothing obvious in the user interface.

You will probably find you can't and there is no way to change it, from what I heard about Vodafone router it is pretty basic to configure and you can not even have a different router.

One reason why I will not be going to Vodafone if I decide to change provider when my plusnet contract runs out.

Just looked very briefly at my mates router..... it seems to support VPN service (LLTP, or somesuch, so nothing brilliant, but better than most 'free ISP' routers)

In reply to a post by charles1:

Just migrated to Vodafone Connect FTTC 40/10. Migration went smoothly, but I was not aware my phone number was changing - due to LLU / full MPF I guess. A speedtest reveals I am getting near the maximum for the profile which is good, with virtually no jitter.

Setting up my TBB monitor, but it looks like the supplied router does not respond to ping on the WAN interface. Does anyone know how to change this please? Nothing obvious in the user interface.

Update: I have cancelled - within the cooling off period that extends to 14 days after activation. Still waiting for confirmation of cancellation...

Confirmed that Vodafone do not allow your own router. There appears to be a bug in the router - at least in the one I was issued with - some of the WiFi features do not work.
Also, there appears to be traffic management (I read an article somewhere prior to signing up that stated there was not.)
Finally, unable to activate phone features from the web portal - had to use the web chat feature, but accoridng to the web portal they have still not been activated.

Might be suitable for a basic home user who happens to have a Vodafone mobile as well. However, for any advanced or techincal users (which I guess includes those reading this forum) I would suggest it is best avoided.

It's well worth knowing!

So is it just Sky and now Vodafone who lock you in to using the supplied router or are there others?

Sky don't lock you in

For the FTTC package it's forbidden in the ToS:

You must not use a modem or any other equipment that we have not supplied to you in order to access Sky Fibre Broadband.

Yeah well, I'm using pfSense on Sky Fibre Unlimited Pro

I didn't say it wasn't possible, just in breach of ToS. I imagine it's the same on Vodafone?

In reply to a post by watercooled:

I didn't say it wasn't possible, just in breach of ToS. I imagine it's the same on Vodafone?

"lock you in" sounds like you saying it's not possible.

Considering I mentioned Sky I'm sure you knew perfectly well what I meant.

Now can we stop dumping on the OP's thread over being pedantic?

Edited by deleted (Sun 17-Apr-16 15:44:41)

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

Sky don't lock you in

Maybe not for the technically minded but certainly for the ordinary punter who won't have the foggiest about pfsense or dd-wrt or mac spoofing and will therefore be forced to use $ky's router.

Not such an issue now they have made the Sky Q hub available to the ordinary punter.

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

Not such an issue now they have made the Sky Q hub available to the ordinary punter.

Are you saying the Sky Q hub is as good as the top end routers from Asus, Netgear et al in terms of wifi coverage (eg 4 stream mumimo wifi) and has features such as a VPN server built in? That's great news!!