Connect Vodafone NBI Fiber directly to pfsense as PPPoE connection (vfieftth.ie).

I have replaced the vodafone gigabox router on fiber NBI connection (Nokia ONT) with Tp-link deco m5 mesh system.

The settings I used were:

Internet connection Type: PPPoE

Username: [ModemSerialNumber]@vfieftth.ie

Password: broadband

Operation mode: Wi-fi router

ISP Profile: Custom

Internet Vlan ID: 10

Internet Vlan Priority: 0 (was defaulting to 7 which prevented it from working)

802.1Q Tag: Enabled/selected

MAC Clone: enabled

Use custom MAC Address (Mac of gigabox router)

Hope it helps.

vodafone@vodafone.ie and broadband should work on anything. The VLAN tag is the hardest bit but most routers should support it.

You can 100% use a non Vodafone router for FTTH, I'm using my Unifi UDMP without vodafone router and no issues.

As stated above, use the pppoe details (vodafone@vodafone.ie/broadband) and tag VLAN10 on the WAN side on the 3rd party router and it works without issue.

Came back to boards.ie to give credits to chrismc76!

I switched to Vodafone and for some reasons I thought it's a good idea to change their Gigabox to bridge more. It all went south and now in retrospect - that was a bad idea!

Since their presentation is ethernet (unlike VM), the right thing is to plug the link to my Asus router.

I tried for a while and nothing made sense - I was getting some 10.x private IP and nothing was working.

Eventually I found chrismc76's post

PPPoE username: [ModemSerialNumber]@vfieftth.ie. Serial number is on the botom of Gigabox

PPPoE Password: broadband, small caps

Internet traffic is on vlan10.

Job done! 2 less gadgets that needs plugging vs VM. At least in my area Vodafone offers 100mbps upload and that's important to me! VM, no matter what, keeps the 50mbps upload for reasons only they understand.

Does anyone have a Ubiquiti Dream Wall and Vodafone 2 gig? Curious to hear if you can get the full 2 gig download on PPPoE without the Gigabox router involved.

I ended up giving it a try anyway. I have a Dream Wall and just had Vodafone 2 gig installed. I was able to get rid of the Vodafone Gigabox using PPPoE and connecting directly from ONT to the UDW. I was worried it wouldn’t be full speed, but it is! Not sure about how the firewall performs. I have mine set to the basic “recommended” settings.

Upload on the SIRO gigabit packages is around 102 Mb/s. I haven’t been on Vodafone since 2022 (been with Digiweb since) but they gave a public IPv4 back then.

I just did it yesterday on Digiweb with a UXG-Max. Works a treat, just needed to set the PPPoE credentials and VLAN 10 tag.

Speeds are pretty much identical to the router I had before, a Fritz 7530. My main reason for doing it was that I wanted to have a separate guest network. While I could have done that on the Fritz, it doesn't support VLAN tagging so I would have had to use up extra (untagged) ports on the switch, which just felt sloppy. I already have a UniFi switch and access points so it made sense for me.

Yep, plug the cable from the ONT into the WAN port on the UniFi router. This is my config, you can ignore the Dynamic DNS config, that's only something you'd use if you need it. Just change the Digiweb credentials to Vodafone's.