Use own router with O2 Fibre

djsim101

Hi Lads,

I bought the following router and can't get it working with O2 fibre BB

http://www.tp-link.com/lk/products/details/?model=TD-W9980

Just wondering does anyone use their own router with 02

thanks

mass_debater

djsim101 wrote: »

Hi Lads,

I bought the following router and can't get it working with O2 fibre BB

http://www.tp-link.com/lk/products/details/?model=TD-W9980

Just wondering does anyone use their own router with 02

thanks

Does it support vectoring? If not even though it supports VDSL2 it won't work at all as Eircom efibre is set to kick all modems that don't support vectoring as they will pull down the whole cabinet

djsim101

I will check that out, I am currently on to support with them. hopefully it does or I just wasted my money...

mass_debater

djsim101 wrote: »

I will check that out, I am currently on to support with them. hopefully it does or I just wasted my money...

I do know that there are very few modem/routers that do support vectoring, not heard that one mentioned. Most just bridge the Huawei or zyxel that supports vectoring and add a normal router

djsim101

Cant go down that route this time, friend has phone line split between two buildings and had two vodafone fibre routers but changed to 02 due to a better price, they only sent out one so I was hoping the above would work. I was reading about putting custom firmware on the Vodafone routers to make it work with O2, not sure that would work though..

mass_debater

djsim101 wrote: »

Cant go down that route this time, friend has phone line split between two buildings and had two vodafone fibre routers but changed to 02 due to a better price, they only sent out one so I was hoping the above would work. I was reading about putting custom firmware on the Vodafone routers to make it work with O2, not sure that would work though..

You should only need to change the pppoe username and password

djsim101

With the Vodafone firmware on the router, the username \ password option is greyed out, no matter what combo I enter...

mass_debater

djsim101 wrote: »

With the Vodafone firmware on the router, the username \ password option is greyed out, no matter what combo I enter...

Don't O2 ship the same Huawei router?

ED E

djsim101 wrote: »

With the Vodafone firmware on the router, the username \ password option is greyed out, no matter what combo I enter...

IIRC theres a way to edit the HTML to fix that. Cant remember where I saw it though.

ED E

mass_debater wrote: »

Does it support vectoring? If not even though it supports VDSL2 it won't work at all as Eircom efibre is set to kick all modems that don't support vectoring as they will pull down the whole cabinet

May do

I think The TP-Link TD-W9980 (and the 8970 and 8980), and the BT Home Hub 5, all use the VRX268 chip. Doesn't actually mention vectoring on the entry level router page, although a whitepaper and the general vectoring page suggests they might do vectoring after a firmware update.

http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=c8b86ad92efed4c144dd8aba6ab96302&topic=131571.msg1149165#msg1149165

Theres another post in the same thread that notes some changes in a later FW that suggests it was implemented.

swoofer

forgive me but what is 02 fibre?? never heard of it

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swoofer wrote: »

forgive me but what is 02 fibre?? never heard of it

It's Eircom eFibre resold by O2, business packages only, no residential afaik