Recommend a G.993.5 / G.Vectoring VDSL Modem

Deagol

Nonoperational wrote: »

Yep. I just don't like the implications that they can go snooping around your laptop etc. It's ridiculous.

Exactly why is it ridiculous? Eircom agents logged onto my router and locked me out of it by changing the password and then refused to tell me the password.

What evidence have you that someone can't access the internal network 'for kicks'? Or are you just making it up because it suits you to believe that?

Nonoperational

I'm perfectly happy with my network security thanks. Bad luck with that highly unusual experience wit eircom.

Just to let you know, UPC have access to your modem too so it's not restricted to the VDSL providers. I had to call them about a line fault in the area at Christmas and the rep on the other side knew the uptime on my modem and could see it dropping off the network.

KeRbDoG

Mods, can this post be locked - a lot of tin foil hat talk going on that isn't really related to my original post

KeRbDoG

KeRbDoG wrote: »

Mods, can this post be locked - a lot of tin foil hat talk going on that isn't really related to my original post

Agreed.

I work in a company where I have potential access to a lot of sensitive corporate data. I have no interest in accessing it and certainly wouldn't put my job on the line to take a peek at it. I doubt that Eircom/Vodafone/UPC/whoever have access to the LAN side, but even if they do it's highly unlikely that the CSRs would be bothered to look, or risk their job to do so.

Nonoperational

Karsini wrote: »

Just to let you know, UPC have access to your modem too so it's not restricted to the VDSL providers. I had to call them about a line fault in the area at Christmas and the rep on the other side knew the uptime on my modem and could see it dropping off the network.

Sounds reasonable...

Deagol

KeRbDoG wrote: »

Mods, can this post be locked - a lot of tin foil hat talk going on that isn't really related to my original post

In fairness, it was you who mentioned backdoors first :P

Each to their own - another reason for me to use a non-ISP provided device is that I always have a feeling that the ISP has a backdoor into the device they provide which they are entitled to do since the equipment is theirs.

gramo

Morning everyone,

I just foot my eircom efiber install finished and everything seems great. I got the tv package aswell so I'm syncing at 100mb and getting 80Mb download speeds hardwired into there router with the evision tv turned on.

However I used to be a upc customer and had a great setup in my house. I had there Cisco router's wifi and dhcp turned off and all the information was handed to my netgear wndr3800, can I still do this with eircoms router? The evision box is connected to the router with a network cable but I can't find if it's getting an IP address.

Has anyone got a similar setup to mine and maybe can offer some advise.?

gramo

Anyone here today? So I need to have eircom's router pass all data onto my netgear router and let it do all my routing..

swoofer

put it in bridge mode ie the eircom

Deagol

Ah geez, could ya at least give the poor fella some idea what bridge mode is and how to access it.... since you started the technical details that is...

swoofer

I did tell him in the proper thread, look a bit closer.

gramo

Lads I know what bridge mode is and all that stuff lol. But there's two sections that you can change to bridge mode. The vdsl side and the wan side. When I change the top one my netgear receives the external IP of eircom but It still doesn't give internet access and my laptop connected to my netgear can't ping the 192.168.1.254 of the eircom router.

In bridge mode you won't be able to ping the Eircom modem as it is no longer providing a LAN interface.

Bridging on the WAN side would feed a public IP to your router via DHCP. Bridging on the VDSL side would require you to enter the PPPoE credentials and VLAN ID on your router to establish a connection.

gramo

Karsini wrote: »

In bridge mode you won't be able to ping the Eircom modem as it is no longer providing a LAN interface.

Bridging on the WAN side would feed a public IP to your router via DHCP. Bridging on the VDSL side would require you to enter the PPPoE credentials and VLAN ID on your router to establish a connection.

So I'm presuming everyone is bridging the WAN side? It's the VDSL bridging that pushed the public ip to my router, are the PPPoE credentials and VLAN ID eircom@eircom.net and broadband1?

Thanks for the fast reply.

gramo

gramo wrote: »

So I'm presuming everyone is bridging the WAN side? It's the VDSL bridging that pushed the public ip to my router, are the PPPoE credentials and VLAN ID eircom@eircom.net and broadband1?

Thanks for the fast reply.

The PPPoE username and password are as what you say. The VLAN ID is 10 I believe. Your router will have to support PPPoE over PTM as opposed to the PPPoE over ATM as used for ADSL connections.

gramo

Karsini wrote: »

The PPPoE username and password are as what you say. The VLAN ID is 10 I believe. Your router will have to support PPPoE over PTM as opposed to the PPPoE over ATM as used for ADSL connections.

Is everyone bridging WAN side? Letting there own router take the external IP. Don't think my netgear has any option for VLAN ID.