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Nighthawk XR300 and Huawei 612 Modem on Talktalk
Hi all, I've got a friend who is trying to set up her new XR300 with a Huawei 612 unlocked modem, and is having a lot of trouble. She is able to get th DSL light on the modem meaning that is receivi...
Netduma-Fraser wrote:
The settings on that page indicate that a login isn't needed but VLAN needs to be set, was that done?Okay so managed to fix the issue, we had to go back in to the internet setup and manually set up the connection rather than using the connection wizard - this allowed us to set it up as not needing a username and password and to retrieve everything via DCHP -thanks for the help :)
Do you require PPPoE or VLAN for TalkTalk? The internet should get detected when going through the Setup Wizard, what did it say then?
Netduma-Fraser wrote:
Do you require PPPoE or VLAN for TalkTalk? The internet should get detected when going through the Setup Wizard, what did it say then?Talktalk uses automatic network auth for PPPoE which makes things awkward, the modem detects and accepts the internet but for some reason the router never. detects an internet connection
- Could you follow this guide from TalkTalk and see if you can get it working please? https://community.talktalk.co.uk/t5/Articles/Set-up-a-non-TalkTalk-router/ta-p/2205383
Tried that unfortunately the netgear router doesn't let you not enter a username and password but Talktalk does not use them any more
Netduma-Fraser wrote:
Could you follow this guide from TalkTalk and see if you can get it working please? https://community.talktalk.co.uk/t5/Articles/Set-up-a-non-TalkTalk-router/ta-p/2205383