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Forums › Spark New Zealand (including Skinny and BigPipe) › Mikrotik Spark UFB Switch from other provider
tomgeeknz

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#261477 29-Nov-2019 20:01
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Can someone please quickly explain what I need to do to switch my Mikrotik router config from another UFB provider (Voyager) to Spark. APD$500 and a unified comms bill was too good of an offer to turn down...

 

I assume it's almost as simple as switching PPPOE Credentials. 





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  #2363136 29-Nov-2019 20:13
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Probably nothing at all - Spark use PPPoE over VLAN 10, same as Voyager, but use port based authentication so any username/password will work, as long as there are no special characters in it.



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  #2363153 29-Nov-2019 20:25
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PPPoE Vlan 10, Please do not enable Internet Detection.

 

 

 

it will make your mikrotik dial DHCP randomly and will cause you a lot of pain.




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  #2363170 29-Nov-2019 20:55
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hio77:

PPPoE Vlan 10, Please do not enable Internet Detection.


 


it will make your mikrotik dial DHCP randomly and will cause you a lot of pain.



Sweet, thanks for the heads up, will double check I haven’t enabled it.








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  #2363184 29-Nov-2019 21:32
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tomgeeknz:
hio77:

 

PPPoE Vlan 10, Please do not enable Internet Detection.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

it will make your mikrotik dial DHCP randomly and will cause you a lot of pain.

 



Sweet, thanks for the heads up, will double check I haven’t enabled it.

 

Took us ages to work out that it's that toggle that makes it randomly dial dhcp... Really annoying "feature"




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