Hi has anyone successfully connected Beryl router to Vodafone broadband.
I have acquired PPPoE username and password from Vodafone and have spent hours trying to connect.
Might help to know which country and the connection type, e.g. xDSL/fibre/cellular.
If it is a fibre connection which fibre network? Some of which require the use of a vlan.
Sorry... Vodafone UK and connection is fibre.
Openreach, Cityfibre... ?
I expect that you'll need to setup a vlan, which is 911 for CityFibre and 101 for Openreach
Vodafone have advised a VLAN ID 901... doesn't work
I can find other posts where Vodafone quote 901 via their live chat.
The response to one of them was:
Connect the WAN port of the router directly to the ONT on the wall with an ethernet cable. If it is indeed openreach (white ONT) then VLANID should be disabled. If it's cityfibre (black ONT) the VLANID is 911.
FWIW: I have fibres with both Openreach and Cityfibre and the above matches the configurations I use.
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By disabling VLANID I'm now getting somewhere....seems to be working. Two different Vodafone advisers said to use 901.
To keep the use of my landline/voip I put the vodafone router in pseudo modem mode (DMZ) and it seemed to work albeit internet seemed sluggish. Then having made no changes it all stopped working. Anyway I'll forego the telephone for now. Thank you very much.
You may find that a SIP ATA, e.g. something like the Grandstrean HT801/HT802, will resolve that.
You can remove the VF router all together,
Ok but will Vodafone furnish me with all the credentials?
That is an interesting question. Can you let us know when you have asked it?
Some ISP's do provide the SIP details, which may depened on the service plan. E.g. Andrews & Arnold and Zen Internet do.
I'm not aware of any of the mass-market UK ISPs doing so yet.
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In Spain, we configure the VLAN for each service when we remove the operator's router (DATA, VOICE, IPTV).
For voice, you must use the corresponding VLAN for Vodafone UK and use some software (softphone) or ATA equipment.
Then, configure the service. This example is for Spain:
Host: ims.vodafone.es:5095
Username: +349XXXXXXXX (phone number)
Password: SIP password (Vodafone uses 6 characters).
User authentication: 349XXXXXXXX@ims.vodafone.es
Outbound proxy: 217.130.174.x:5095 where x can be 169, 116, 148, 100, 161, etc. (there are several proxy servers available that are perfectly interchangeable between Vodafone routers and customers).
Thanks for all of that. I use my landline for burglar alarm notifications and am wondering can I do without. Otherwise I will contact Vodafone and ask for credentials.
I've used an ATA in the past to rewire the copper alarm output.
Once your copper link from the Openreach/BT NTE to the Local Exchange has been disconnected you can wire your house alarm from it to an ATA.
You can check the copper line is active, or not, by the absence of a dial tone, or that there is no voltage across pins 2 & 5 [DC 50V ]. Then to be safe disconnect the outbond line from the NTE.
I used a standard RJ11/12 to Type 600 phone cord to connnect the faceplate socket to the ATA. If the alarm does not see a dial-tone, swap cables 2 & 5 on on the punch-down block.
A little off topic but... I had success connecting directly to my Beryl router with help from you guys. I have super fast speeds on OOKLA speed tester but when browsing the net everything is sluggish, often getting "server not found..try again" What does this mean?
Thanks, I have requested SIP credentials from Vodafone who say they will provide them. We'll see. I'm still stuck on the aforementioned web access sluggishness from all devices in my house which I gather is a DNS issue and I don't know how to proceed. To recap I have dispensed with the Vodafone router and connected directly to my Beryl router.
On your Beryl try going into LuCI, Network, Diagnostics.
Use the tools to test network targets (e.g. websites) that are fast and slow.
Looks for differences in latency and packet loss between a fast and slow connections.
If the results are consistently good, then try and run the same tests from a device connected to the router.
So In Luci I tested Ebay and Amazon and it looked ok 25ms round trip and no packet loss. Both of these are slow to respond and often say "no server...try again" on Firefox (and others) I then tried from command prompt in windows and get:
You'll see the first ping request failed and I tried again..OK
I'm out of my depth here. Help is much appreciated.
Ping request could not find host ebay.co.uk. Please check the name and try again.
C:\Users\muggi>ping ebay.co.uk
Pinging ebay.co.uk [2.21.67.51] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 2.21.67.51: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=57
Reply from 2.21.67.51: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=57
Reply from 2.21.67.51: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=57
Reply from 2.21.67.51: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=57
Ping statistics for 2.21.67.51:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 19ms, Maximum = 22ms, Average = 20ms
I tried this on a PC wired to the router and got the same ie first ping request failed.
So the inference is that the comms from the Beryl to the internet looks OK.
But your devices connected to the Beryl are showing problems.
From your [windows?] PC Command Prompt you can use a similar set of tools to test Ebay and Amazon.
You can see your network information with: ipconfig /all
Where you can check that your PC is being assigned the Beryl's Router IP address for your DNS.
You can then use ping , nslookup and tracert to give you a direct comparison to the Beryls results.
Sorry to e a nuisance but I don't have the knowledge...
This is from Beryl
traceroute to ebay.co.uk (2.21.67.41), 30 hops max, 46 byte packets
1 *
2 63.130.172.45 15.221 ms
3 195.66.224.168 18.443 ms
4 2.21.67.41 17.798 ms
This is from command prompt
C:\Users\muggi>tracert ebay.co.uk
Tracing route to ebay.co.uk [23.48.165.132]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 5 ms 3 ms 3 ms GL-MT3000 [10.0.0.1]
2 10 ms 8 ms 7 ms 90.247.128.1
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 26 ms 39 ms 23 ms 195.66.231.84
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.