Virgin Media Launch 5Gb Broadband

I got that letter about a month ago (having had a VM engineer surveying the road late last year), they put the fibre on the house yesterday. Co-ax is still in place too.

I have X-ONU-SFP ordered via reseller in UK. He is just waiting on stock now. Likely will also get hit with import on it.

Yeap. Comes preloaded with the firmware.

He even added your serial info for you, but it's not massive effort to do it.

Nope, the one from FiberMall came with the original firmware, I don't remember seeing the option when I purchased otherwise I would have picked it. Flashing it is pretty straightforward though. One difficulty I had was that I tried to make it boot without having the fibre connected - it only worked after I connected the fibre.

I am using a Minisforum MS-01 running opnSense inside of a Proxmox VM, with NIC passthrough.

VM uses IPoE. I am not sure if WAS-110 supports PPPoE - I've tried to connect it to SIRO when I had XGS-PON (now I have GPON on SIRO :( ) but was unable to. It could have been some other issue though.

Cheers lads. I've got the WAS-110 ordered from Fibremall it would be handy if it came with the firmware preinstalled but should be fine. Great work around to not have to use the VM router!

Any chance of an idiots guide summary of all the above. Thinking of upgrading. Think I've a Hub 3 with a mesh attached. Sometimes I have it in bridge mode, sometimes not. Because they don't support bridge mode if you ring them.

Having increasing dropouts so it time to ring them again, and they'll say they can't see anything.

The plan is to up upgrade to FTTP. Have IPv4 plays nicer with our VPNs.

So you get full dual stack by bypassing the ONT? Their DS-Lite and crappy hardware were the big reasons why I avoided them over the years.

Well it looks like my WAS-110 is bricked… I had it preloaded with 8311 from Fibremall… it was only on 1 partition.. which I assumed would be fine to get it going. I put all the settings in as directed and rebooted the device and it never came back up. No SSH connection.. nothing. Tried with fibre connected and without. unfortunately nothing. UDMP sees the SFP port is connected but nothing happens… No WAN connection. Gonna have to try get VM to sort out the IPV4 to make sure I can get port forwarding. What a shame!

Ok the plot thickens… So I think my WAN-110 is actually overheating… I disconnected it and just reconnected the hub last night… I tried again today and I got access to the WAN-110 for a short period. While I was setting up to get ready to flash partition B (Fibremall only flashed 1 partition) the device became unresponsive. I know it needs a certain amount of active cooling but I though I would get enough time to at least get the thing working before an overheating issue. Its possibly a faulty unit either. Anyway the guys on the 8311 discord a very helpful and I have a fan on the way to hopefully fix the issue!!! Sadly in the short space of time I've had it working it wouldnt connect to VM. I am using a UDMP as my router… it seems to see the device there and sometimes will show as a VM connection but never actually gets a connection.

Separately I was onto VM to try get the Hub5x put in modem/bridge mode and they wont do that at all atm for irish customers on their fiber products… I have another week to get the WAS110 working before I might have to cancel the service! :( I know others are going to offer the service in early June but at a hefty price premium!

Yea thats kinda what I thought tbh… And it might actually be a faulty unit. I thought I could at least get it to a point that my VM would connect but no such luck. And it becomes unresponsive so quickly I cant actually troubleshoot anything I've done in terms of settings. Comparing it to the video instructions it seems like the connection is there but my UDMP never actually shows a connection.

I'm guessing the VLAN 10 should be set on my UDMP and not the WAS-110. I have a 140mm fan coming to point at it in the hope I get it going.