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#215397 25-Jun-2017 22:34
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Evening all,

 

 I'm looking at using voyager as my ISP, moving from a house that only had ADSL on to voyager's fibre plan.

 

I want to know if I can re-use my wireless router for the connection. Does anyone use a TP-Link TL-WR1043ND wireless gigabit router as their fibre router?

 

 

 

Cheers

 

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  #1806699 25-Jun-2017 23:29
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Should be usable, but I'm not sure about how well it'll cope with the speed.

 

Open WRT might help, depending on your hardware revision.





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  #1806828 26-Jun-2017 11:25
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i dont think it supports VLAN tagging with the stock firmware so for most ISP's it wouldnt work with out running DD-WRT on it.


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  #1806864 26-Jun-2017 11:56
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It does not support VLAN OOB. You will need to investigate DD WRT or alternatives. Last time I looked, it was not there, but it was a while ago!

 

 




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  #1806865 26-Jun-2017 11:59
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Thanks all, I think I have the answer now.


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  #1810273 1-Jul-2017 21:56
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The 1043nd tplink will work (all versions) but for vlan tagging you'll need to load openwrt or lede-project. The v1 1043 however (older white color) will only be able to route gigabit half duplex due to only a single gigabit link from the switch chip to the soc (no good if you're on UFB 1000/500). The v2 and above has 2x gigabit links from the switch chip to the soc so you'll only be limited by the cpu when doing speedtests.


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  #1810275 1-Jul-2017 22:08
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You can use it on Bigpipe (No VLAN tag required)


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