Simple tread - Vodafone Ireland broadband and TV with own Asus router
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11-05-2024 12:47pm#1
Gigabox is not a bad piece of kit, but more often than not a decent router is much better.
I switched a few days ago from Virgin Media.
First thing I did after validating broadband and TV are working was to change Gigabox in bridge mode. Mistake! I'm yet to find a way to changing it back to router mode. Despite spending some time with Vodafone on the call and chat. But ultimately that's not needed.
Vodafone presentation is ethernet so I plugged it in directly to my router.
WAN link has to be PPPoE.
Username gigabox_serial_number@vfieftth.ie
Passwork broadbandgigabox_serial_number is located on the bottom of the box. I don't know if it's case sensitive or not. All characters in SN are caps so I typed if with caps. And likely it's the last time one will need that box.
Important setting: vlan for internet is 10. There are here a bunch of posts sharing this critical piece of information.
I use an Asus router and I'll share below a screen grab with where the vlan information must be added.
With PPPoE and without vlan, router will get a private IP from 10.x range, but as expected, nothing will be working.
TV - and this took me a good while to figure it out.
Multicast routing must be enable on the router! IGMP v3 is default in Asus and it's working just fine with Vodafone.
If one is looking to connect TV box via wireless, IGMP Snooping must be enable under Wireless→Professional under the radio where TV box will connect to (doesn't hurt to enable it on all radios).
That would be all. I'll experiment at a later date if fast leave improves speed of changing the channels. But so far is fast enough and it's working just fine.
While TV if on playing a random channel broadband delivers for me full 1G download and 100mbps upload. Router's CPU and memory are not impacted in any ways - but I do have a powerfull model so in my case that was not a concern.
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