Help with Vodafone fibre on Asus RT-AC68U

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conma293

9 posts

Wannabe Geek

#243814 3-Jan-2019 12:25

So I got the Asus RT-AC68U, it says in PBtech it works with nz fibre and Vodafone says it should be plug and play...

My router WAN setting is saying "your ISPs DHCP does not function properly"; used quick setup; no auth, dynamic IP

wratterus

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#2153795 3-Jan-2019 12:27

Have you enabled VLAN 10 on the WAN interface? Don't know the exact steps for doing this on this particular router sorry. Have a poke around in the more advanced WAN settings.

Aitchy

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#2153833 3-Jan-2019 13:01

I’ve got this router, if you do a search on here there are some posts about what you have to do to set it up, it took a bit of cursing but it worked in the end.

Aitchy

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#2153834 3-Jan-2019 13:01

https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=40&topicid=198966

wratterus

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#2155906 7-Jan-2019 16:29

Had any luck @conma293 ?

conma293

9 posts

Wannabe Geek

#2155978 7-Jan-2019 20:20

Yeh mate, PB tech has a whole range of router instructions for NZ broadband - https://www.pbtech.co.nz/ASUSISPSettings

ISPs won't even try to help you, think it's against policy for them to bother

epr

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Lifetime subscriber

#2155981 7-Jan-2019 20:28

I think they consider the fact that they supply you with a router set up for their network enough help, otherwise you are choosing to bypass their help so good luck and no support sorry.

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bunker

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#2159652 12-Jan-2019 13:21

Good that you got it sorted. Those PB Tech screenshots were incredibly helpful for me when I was setting up my RT-AC68U.

It's probably onerous for ISP customer service to know how all the individual settings are laid out for every router. I'm with Spark and they have all the settings for non-Spark routers on their website but where you input those details seems to differ from device to device.

Also, if you are interested in flashing a new firmware at some point you could try Merlin. I've currently got Merlin running on mine along with a script called Diversion which blocks ads at the router.