Eir FTTH router

ceon wrote: »

Hi PaddyTheNth
Any advice on setting up the RT2600ac with eir. I have FTTH and the F3000 just wasn't great. But I'm having issues with trying to setup the Synology router.

Thanks

What's the particular problem you're having?

In terms of getting internet access, from what I remember, set Connection type to Auto and in ISP Setting (IPTV & VOIP) set the VID to 10 and you're done.

However - while it all just works if you have a single/primary Internet connection - I recommend in the strongest terms staying away from trying to set up a secondary connection, if one of the connections requires VLAN tagging (see VID above) i.e. Eir. There's all sorts of insanity going on under the hood there, and while I finally got it working in manual failover mode, automatic failover just completely refused to work. A big part of the behaviour seemed to be undocumented even for internal Synology support and some of it felt untested to me as a dumb customer.

Otherwise it's a great bit of kit though, I really like the features and it has been rock solid.

Edit: the above assumes you have Eir FTTH.

Sorry for the delay in responding.

From memory when I was using just the Eir FTTH connection on its own, I had it plugged into the WAN port and the VLAN/VID setting was set the same as you have it.

I note that the ISP Settings on mine are labelled a bit differently to yours, but I expect that is because I've got 2 separate connections. I'm sure I was putting the VID in the first available field, like you have it there.

In my setup the Eir connection is in LAN 1.

Sorry I can't be more help. It might be worth contacting Synology support, they were pretty good to engage with.

A couple of questions regarding Eir FTTH:

Can anyone confirm the model of modem/NTU Eir are providing with new FTTH installs (500Mbit & 1Gbit)?

I'm curious to know its possible to change DNS servers on DHCP and the subnet configured on the LAN interface.

Is the service synchronous or asynchronous? If async, listed upstream speeds?

Is there contention on the line? Contention ratio?

Thanks

You don't need PPPOE for Eir FTTH .

You could choose connection without Username and Pass altogether.

I'm glad to find someone else has mentioned this problem with a connection on Android. I had the same problem. Though, it was only with certain content. So it gave me the impression it might have trouble connecting to whatever CDN the affected content is on. Frustrating since it kind of half-worked.

Anyway, fixed by changing the DNS settings on the router.

Thanks I’ll try change that but like I said above any username/pass did not work for me, I dont know why but eircom@eircom.net returned a timeout error, tried multiple times, but eir@eir.ie worked.

I’ll try without ppoe at all

New install in neighbor's house, Wifi getting 500Mbps+, 10m CAT5 cable from back of F3000 ETH PORT1 to a Netgear 8-ports Gigabit Switch (Home Network type) - PC and Mac Air Detect 1GB interface but F3000 LAN port shows 100Mbps and of course speedtest wont go past 95MB on either PC or Mac Air, whats going on here?

Tried restarting the F3000 and also forced PC to 1GB Full duplex but no change. Immediately after install the setup was using an old Netgear 100Mbps switch.

EDIT: Found the problem, well there was 2 issues here! The cheap netgear switch was not giving a gigabit connection and the cable run must be CAT5 and not CAT5e or it is too long as that also prevented the 1GB sync. New cable and switch solved this one.

It shouldn't be an issue really.

I am not sure about NBI though, I would try those:

Username: eircom@eircom.net

Pass: broadband1

Don't forget VLAN 10 tagging.

Thanks alec76! I replaced my eir router with my 3 TPLink Deco boxes and it's working perfectly.

I used Internet vlan 10 and vlan priority 0, and for IPv4 I chose PPPoe, username=eir@eir.ie, password=broadband1