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VLAN tagging for TPG NBN
I have just had NBN connected here in Australia through iiNet which uses the TPG FTTC service.
It uses PPPOE and requires the WAN port to be set with a VLAN ID of 2 and priority of 0.
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- Hey mate it took me a couple hours last night but I've worked it out. You have to upgrade the firmware on the Orbi to the latest version. I had to put my D7000 in bridge mode (modem only) and then connect my Orbi to it in AP mode. This let the Orbi connect to the internet enough to download and install the firmware. The new firmware let's you change the VLAN ID to 2 which is required for TPG HFC or similar NBN. The old firmware just made it stick to a VLAN ID of 10 no matter how many times you tried to change it. Once it was updated I just went to the Orbi, Advanced Settings and then went to the VLAN section and set the "Set VLAN by group" option for internet to VLAN ID 2. Then it worked! I'm now able to use the Orbi connected directly to the NBN. No more intermediate routers. Hope this helps!
Same here. On TPG NBN HFC and need the VLAN tagging to work. It works fine on the Netgear R7000 so should be doable by Netgear on the Orbi.
Hey mate it took me a couple hours last night but I've worked it out. You have to upgrade the firmware on the Orbi to the latest version. I had to put my D7000 in bridge mode (modem only) and then connect my Orbi to it in AP mode. This let the Orbi connect to the internet enough to download and install the firmware. The new firmware let's you change the VLAN ID to 2 which is required for TPG HFC or similar NBN. The old firmware just made it stick to a VLAN ID of 10 no matter how many times you tried to change it. Once it was updated I just went to the Orbi, Advanced Settings and then went to the VLAN section and set the "Set VLAN by group" option for internet to VLAN ID 2. Then it worked! I'm now able to use the Orbi connected directly to the NBN. No more intermediate routers. Hope this helps!
Thanks hungrydavo,
I've been checking in reasonably frequently waiting for this to work. I've been on the most recent firmware version for a while now, but saw nothing in the release notes about the VLAN tagging being fixed, so I didn't even bother giving it a try. As I'd already had the vlan and internet connection settings already configured, all i had to do was swap from AP to Router mode to get it to work.
Now I can finally bin the Huawei piece of rubbish!
Here are some screenshots of my settings which are working for my iiNet HFC NBN connection. Hopefully they may be of assistance to others out there.
Agreed, latest release now works with VLAN tagging on NBN TPG HFC network here in Australia.