WAN setup el-cheapo DSL-2880AL Dual Channel WiFi modem/router on Spark Fibre

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MorrisTheCat

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Topic # 171987 7-May-2015 19:55

Small headsup to the few of you who might want to save 2 days of messing around. Mate's Fibre install done almost a year ago. Mine lastweek. Spark supplied me a 'free' modem Hauwei HG630b single 2.4GHz WiFi. I own SurfacePro3 and acts like a dog on anything other than 5GHz with benefit of 802.11ac. Hence why friend and i lept at cheap modem/router offer...

(Setup Dlink for WAN for 'Residential gateway UFB option) for a Cat5 cable that runs back to the installed ONT, note to all you must tick the box for VLAN opens option for VID, and type in 10 from Spark infopage... )

Everything working fine and interesting i seem better performance speedtest on Surface using 5GHz WiFi than my desktop that must have slower performing Ethernet port handling from the router...

Meanwhile mate's DSL-2880L WILL NOT work off WAN port for him... Everything is the same but steadfast NO-GO!

We meet up and exchage modems. Still his arrangement will not work on his almost 1yrold Fibre Install. His unit fine on my install!

Then he swapped out the as-installed Telecom cable from ONT to modem outlet (which was working ok with his old supplied modem) with new fresh made Cat5 run.... between WAN port of DSL-2880L and FIXED...

It appears Telecom used some other kind of cable standard in their earlier installs... So always try doing a CHANGEOUT of your original ONT run folks if you are dealing with an earlier Fibre Install and save a whole lo of hassle...!

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Reply # 1300123 7-May-2015 19:55

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Reply # 1300157 7-May-2015 20:42

Crossover vs non crossover perhaps?

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Reply # 1300158 7-May-2015 20:49

Sounds pretty odd to me.

All the original Spark supplied modems such as the Techicolor ones and the Huawei ones always came with a straight-through RJ45 cable. No cross over or anything special.

Sounds like you may have had a dodgy cable or something.

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Reply # 1300368 8-May-2015 08:28

My pick would be a dodgy Ethernet cable that refuses to negotiate at 1Gbps.

MorrisTheCat

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Reply # 1300928 8-May-2015 19:14

The thing is in all this is my friend has had Fibre for over a year now, maybe longer. The install resulted in him receiving a free Telecom "Pace" model modem, infact the entire connect up was done well before the idea of Telcom becoming Spark...

This morning he showed me the cable that went from the ONT to the Pace on the WAN connect... I think you guys will pretty much see why, although most of the Fibre System worked fine for internet (he gave up ever trying to set up Port Forwarding with the Pace for some home security video cameras) he had a dog of a time ever making his new el-cheapo D-Link from ever flying. I have to ask, what cable standard with RJ45 plugs is four conductors only? It sure will not work for WAN...

In all this its really a reminder to check the obvious when setting up anything and it's not doing what it should i guess and you never know you too might save a whole world of hurt and 2 days of wasted time...

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Reply # 1300932 8-May-2015 19:24

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Such cables aren't uncommon - but can clearly only support FE, not 1Gb Ethernet.

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Reply # 1300962 8-May-2015 20:34

What Steve said, seen cables like that before.. Will work fine for 10mb/100mb ethernet, as they only use 4 wires (hence the ability to use splitters to run 2 data/voice lines down one single line). Gigabit Ethernet uses all 8 wires, so won't work on such a cable.

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Reply # 1300994 8-May-2015 20:58

Lias: What Steve said, seen cables like that before.. Will work fine for 10mb/100mb ethernet, as they only use 4 wires (hence the ability to use splitters to run 2 data/voice lines down one single line). Gigabit Ethernet uses all 8 wires, so won't work on such a cable.

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