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WAN port needs to use VLAN 35 for all traffic going in and out.
The menu for configuring VLAN tagging is a little unclear, I only need to tag traffic going in/out from the WAN connection, but I can't see if that's the default function or if it's adding that taggin...
Thanks for that link to the Bell Community Forum. Just to clarify, is the goal to:
- Connect the Orbi 970 system to the Bell Home Hub 3000, or
- Remove the Bell Home Hum 3000 entirely and connect the Orbi router directly to....?
- The home hub has been disconnected for a while now. I've used it successfully with another router, but keep trying to get this system to work based on the promised awesomeness. Lol.
Basically there's a fiber to lan interface that connects via ethernet to the wan port and the router connects/logs-in via PPPoE. (This was broken at first with these units as well, but thankfully they fixed it)Thanks. Very clear. Can you please describe more about what happens when the 971 router WAN port is connected to the fiber unit and the PPPoE credentials are used to log in? i.e.
- Does the Orbi report that is "has internet"?
- Are any devices able to reach the internet?
- The initial post mentioned issues when roaming between Orbi units. Does it work normally except for that?
- Everything seems to work normally, except Wi-Fi devices keep dropping connection randomly, failing to connect (seems like they don't get DHCP every time) or roaming takes a long time to reconnect.
I've tested it with a streaming internet radio source and when I walk around the house sometimes it cuts out for a full 30s or more before it starts playing again.
I've been trying to adjust basically every setting (that's available) to adjust on the system to see if it'll fix it. I wish there was a 20MHz limiter for the 2.4GHz band! Nothing seems to help.
It wasn't doing it as often when I had only a few wifi devices connected and the system was in AP mode (a different router was connected to PPPoE & doing vLAN tagging - it was also hosting all the Wi-Fi IoT devices). When I switched it back to being the primary routing system, with the PPPoE connection and vLAN tagging it started acting up a LOT more (pretty much constantly).
I've got about 45 client devices on the network, about 30 are wireless clients and most are IOT devices (connecting via the IoT network).
I've been tinkering with it since the beta, and haven't got it sorted out. I keep testing when new firmware comes out, but it hasn't helped yet. There are other threads that mention similar behaviour with newer iPhones, so it might have nothing to do with the vlan stuff, I was just trying to figure out if I've got it configured correctly.