FTTC FTW
I've not posted this until today, because my blog's been poorly, but the BT engineer came round last week and upgraded me to FTTC.
I'm now getting about 38Mbps downstream and about 8Mbps upstream.
I'm sticking with Andrews & Arnold, rather than changing to BT Infinity, which slightly confused the BT OpenReach engineer.
The deal is that BT will supply a VDSL modem, and the consumer (me) needs to provide a router that speaks PPPoE. In the usual case, this is the BT Infinity box. In my case, it's a Linksys WRT54GL, running Tomato. I'm pleased to report that this works fine.
Once you raise the QoS bandwidth limits, that is...
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I've got the same kit and I'm
I've got the same kit and I'm struggling to make it work.
Homehub plugged into the openreach modem works fine and I can then use the linksys to pick up an address from the home hub via DHCP. When I try to take the home hub out of the equation, plugging the openreach modem into the wrt54gl and configuring tomato to supply "bthomehub@btbroadband.com" as the username for a PPOE connection, I get nothing. Checking the logs on tomato shows:
Apr 2 12:21:33 unknown daemon.info pppoe[6721]: Sending PADT.
Apr 2 12:21:40 unknown daemon.info pppoe[6721]: Sending PADI.
Apr 2 12:21:40 unknown daemon.info pppoe[6721]: Received PADO.
Apr 2 12:21:40 unknown daemon.info pppoe[6721]: Sending PADR.
Apr 2 12:21:41 unknown daemon.info pppoe[6721]: Received PADS. SID: 0x680B
Apr 2 12:21:41 unknown daemon.info pppoe[6721]: Sending LCP Configuration-Request
Apr 2 12:21:41 unknown daemon.info pppoe[6721]: Received LCP Configuration-Request
Apr 2 12:21:41 unknown daemon.info pppoe[6721]: Sending LCP Configuration-Reject
Apr 2 12:21:41 unknown daemon.info pppoe[6721]: Received LCP Configuration-Ack
Apr 2 12:21:41 unknown daemon.info pppoe[6721]: Received LCP Configuration-Request
Apr 2 12:21:41 unknown daemon.info pppoe[6721]: Sending LCP Configuration-Ack
Apr 2 12:21:41 unknown daemon.info pppoe[6721]: Sending IPCP Configuration-Request
Apr 2 12:21:41 unknown daemon.info pppoe[6721]: Received LCP Termination-Request
Apr 2 12:21:41 unknown daemon.info pppoe[6721]: Sending LCP Termination-Ack
Apr 2 12:21:43 unknown user.info redial[6722]: PPPoE reconnect in progress (2)
Apr 2 12:21:44 unknown daemon.info pppoe[6721]: Connection terminate
Have I missed some configuration step? Not sure why it's not working and any advice would be appreciated.
Cheers
Nick
Re: I've got the same kit and I'm
No idea, sorry. For the WRT54GL, I just entered the user name and password and left everything else as default values. Worked fine.
...until the WiFi in the WRT54GL died, that is. I'm now running a Netgear N600 (WNDR3700v1) with OpenWRT, and it just worked as well.