Facewon wrote:They said to try bridge mode, and when it didn't work said it was because the eero is incompatible. Is that true?
Because when you have Fibre to the Property (FttP) the box on your wall, inside your home, is the modem. All you need to do is plug your router of choice in.drumbeg wrote:Why are people suggesting to plug the Eero directly into wall, when it isn't a modem? What am I missing?
Funkstain wrote:But - I do not know how his connection is encapsulated: the support pages for Unity Internet's Velocity service (FTTP) claim it is PPPoE encapsulated, which means you need to authenticate your first router to the service (user name and password), which you can do in the Eero easily enough (select PPPoE and enter details); but when he got in touch with support, they seemed to claim it is simple DHCP, so that would mean no auth and you simply plug the Eero in and select DHCP as the connection type and voila. This is a major confusion for me, it can only be one or the other
poprock wrote:Because when you have Fibre to the Property (FttP) the box on your wall, inside your home, is the modem. All you need to do is plug your router of choice in.drumbeg wrote:Why are people suggesting to plug the Eero directly into wall, when it isn't a modem? What am I missing?
Funkstain wrote:BUT with Mesh systems this can create issues: it could be that the Eero needs to be in routing mode to be able to mesh properly with its other access points around the house?
Funkstain wrote:Whatcha taking about I have 1gbps down and up for £25 a month where can you get that outside of London? Massively unfair
Facewon wrote:Drum, Eero is definitely also a router.
Funkstain wrote:Also I’m still confused by what happens when you plug the eero direct to the Ethernet connection in the study. I get that Internet / WiFi drops but I don’t understand why you cannot directly connect to eero and diagnose problem. You can with every router I’ve used before, either via direct WiFi connection or Ethernet / LAn connection. I guess the latter is out if it needs a mobile app but still
Funkstain wrote:Wait. This is far more complex. The Telstra thing has a battery indicator! That could mean back up power?? Also you have data cables (patch cables, lan cables whatever you want to call them) coming out to several places, one of which you use to plug in the Nokia?? That means you must have a router somewhere before! No router, no way to get connection to right thing in right place, so you must have a router somewhere as yet undescribed?? This is very mysterious
Facewon wrote:Funkstain wrote:Wait. This is far more complex. The Telstra thing has a battery indicator! That could mean back up power?? Also you have data cables (patch cables, lan cables whatever you want to call them) coming out to several places, one of which you use to plug in the Nokia?? That means you must have a router somewhere before! No router, no way to get connection to right thing in right place, so you must have a router somewhere as yet undescribed?? This is very mysterious
Opticon box > port 1 in the mess of thing in the garage > Lan cable from port 1 to port 2 of the same > Port 2 links to the study. > Where the beacon plugs into the wall. keep up.
ChopperByrne wrote:Do you live in a block of flats/row of houses that has an internet provider pre-installed?
Funkstain wrote:Anyway that’s probably a red herring, the port 1 to port 2 thing suggests installer just went what the actual shit is this oh this’ll work
Funkstain wrote:Ok. I’m not giving up yet 1. When Nokia, only Nokia, is connected to study wall Ethernet socket. And it is not in bridge mode. And nothing is wired to it downstream (no eero). Does Internet work, via WiFi from Nokia?
Funkstain wrote:2. Or do you need Nokia (not in bridge) wired to Eero for internet to work even though double-NAT, and you’re connecting via Eero WiFi?
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