15-Aug-2017
Way back in 2015 I had
TPG's FTTB service connected and was
amazed with its speed. I always planned to replace the
Huawei modem that came with it, for various reasons it took me over 2 years to do so, but I finally did it. I ended up buying the
Billion BiPAC 8700AXL 1600 VDSL2/ADSL2+ Tri-WAN Modem Router to replace both the
Huawei modem I was using as well as the
Apple AirPort Express that I had as my
WiFi AP.
It took me way longer to get the settings right so that the
8700AXL could connect to the Internet, even with the
Whirlpool VDSL2 settings page in hand. I couldn't find anyone using this exact device so had to fumble my way through the UI. Here are the settings I used...
First I removed all the previous
WAN services under
WAN > WAN Service.
Then I added a new
WAN Service with the following settings...
On the next page I selected just the new
ppp0.1 interface for
DNS settings, moving all other interfaces into the
Available list.
Once the router saved all the settings I had the new
WAN Service showing up.
The next setting I changed as in
WAN > DSL. Here I selected
all modulation types and left just the
17a profile selected. I also
enabled SRA.
That's all I needed to do! After these changed I had the DSL and Internet lights lighting up and staying lit and of course I could connect to the Internet from my laptop and phone via the new
8700AXL device.
-i
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