| FTTH router question Hey everyone -
I'm in Broomfield CO and have centurylink fiber to the home 40Mbps/20Mbps service and love it. It was installed with a zyxel FR1000z router rented from CL -- I'm pretty sure that it's just taking raw ethernet in and running PPPoE. Since I've got a couple of extra routers, I'd like to replace the zyxel with one of those, but can't figure out the settings (service name, PPP Compressino, MPPE Encryption, etc.). Anyone have any ideas? I tried configuring one of my DD-WRT routers as PPPoE, with the username, MTU, etc. that I was able to pull from the zyxel but to no avail... Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
-Justin |
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1 edit | They seriously use PPP for FTTH? Wow...
There shouldn't be any special configuration needed for PPPoE. Since that's not working, I suspect you probably need to configure an 802.1Q (VLAN) tag on that port. I don't know what VLAN ID they would use for FTTH, but if that is the case you should probably be able to find it in the ZyXEL's config. They use 201 for VDSL2, so maybe it's the same?
(Also before anyone tries to suggest the OP actually has DSL, like what happened in one of the last threads, that FR1000z isn't a DSL modem.) |
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| So it looks like it's using VLan ID 201, but I'm not sure how to configure that in DD-WRT; I'm guessing that I want to add a VLAN tag as shown here, I assume on eth0 since that's the wan port. Does the config shown in these screenshots look about right? Doesn't seem to be working... |
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| I haven't used DD-WRT but a few ideas:
- disable T-Home VDSL 7 VLAN tagging in the WAN settings
- see if there's an option in "WAN port assignment" on the VLAN page, to change that to the vlan interface |
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| Shoot, well no luck. Tried several different variations; ended up with the following. I bet it's something with the vlan settings; I'll keep trying and report back if I have any luck. |
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Yes I know an other provider uses PPPOE for there fiber connection it doesnt surprise me any that centurylink does. |
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so it's still trying to make the PPPoE connection on eth0, not vlan1. (You can verify that if you want to with tcpdump and checking for the presence of an 802.1Q tag on the PPPoED packets, although it's kind of pointless. If you do that it's probably easier to save it to a pcap and open it locally with Wireshark.)
Within this Web interface I can't think of what else to try, unfortunately  I did some quick googling and found other similar issues but no actual solutions, besides for VLAN 7 (why they implemented a checkbox for that instead of just adding a VLAN tag field is beyond me). Actually this one seems to have suggested exactly what I suggested, but it didn't work in this case either: »www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=547367 |
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plat2on1
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Hopewell Junction, NY | reply to surtr
it won't work with DD-WRT if you need to use vlan 201. does your router support tomato? |
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| I think so -- it's an asus RT-n12 which looks like it does. I'll give it a shot. |
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They use to use DHCP, but went to PPPoE then they installed all those modems. |
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Has CenturyLink really rolled out Fiber to the HOME (FTTH) in Broomfield, or are you actually served by Fiber to the NODE (FTTN) with VDSL2 brought into your home on the copper phone line?
I haven't seen any sort of announcement that CL is pulling fiber all the way to the home in the north metro area, but that would be great news if they're doing so! |
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| Yep, they pulled fiber to a box on the outside of my house, then copper (cat5) from that box to the router in my basement. It's a brand new subdivision; not sure if they are doing it elsewhere in broomfield. They offered speeds ranging from 40Mb/5Mb to 100/100. They aren't yet offering prism over the fiber though. |
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