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Forums › 2degrees (including Slingshot, Orcon, Flip, Stuff Fibre, MyRepublic, 2talk and Vocus) › Fritzbox or keep Asus DSL N66U?
kiwiyorkie

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#181222 7-Oct-2015 00:13
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So I am with Spark currently on ADSL (no fibre until end of November) currently averaging 15mbps (don't laugh please!) and 2 degrees want to sign me up for $79 per month for unlimited and will swap me over to fibre when UFB installed within next couple of months.

Question is do I take Frizbox offered or keep my using my Asus DSL N66U and have no contract?

When I compare the 2 units not really a massive difference between the 2 units so just keep my asus one?

Thanks guys and girls

Kiwiyorkie

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  #1404462 12-Oct-2015 15:41
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kiwiyorkie: Not going to voip as we use Viber and Skype.

2 degrees offering unlimited ADSL and UFB once available for $79 per month, no contract and I can use my own ASUS modem/router.

AFAIK the DSL-N66u doesn't support VLAN tagging on its Ethernet WAN port. Due to this it likely won't work on 2degrees UFB unless you can convince them to provision your eventual UFB as untagged.
The fancier Fritzboxes do 802.11ac. Your N66u only does N. They can also do VOIP.  
2 degrees say they will let me connect to UFB with my ASUS and I have this in writing, my only question is reading reply from Lorenceo is will my ASUS work on UFB and is it easy to connect or set up?

Kiwiyorkie


Hi Kiwiyorkie,

You are more than welcome to use your own modem to access our services, however please note that support for this is very limited through our helpdesk (i.e. providing settings only). We are unable to guarantee compatibility of all devices with all of our services, so it is important to make sure that your device is capable of supporting the settings required for the service variant selected.

For UFB, as has been previously mentioned in this thread, your device will need to support a PPPoE connection over the WAN interface, with traffic tagged as VLAN 10.

Hope that helps!

Ralph ^JOB

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