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WAN VLAN Tagging for Fiber ONT
Hello, I just had Brightspeed fiber installed this past week at my house. The install included them installing a Calix ONT in my house and then connecting their own router to that. The included router...
- Thank you all, I didn't mention the c4000 at first and mentioned the calix ont because I wanted to connect the netgear directly to the ont using vlan tagging and was not going to use the c4000 at all, this shoud of worked but vlan wan tagging is not supported on the netgear. This forum helped me decide to use the netgear in ap mode, thank you!
msvendsen wrote:
The isp does not provide any support at all when using third party equipment unfortunately, other than telling me I have to set VLAN tagging to 201 on the WAN.
One good reason for signing up with someone else. The pity is that in many markets competition barely exists.
There's quite a lot of stuff here:
set VLAN tagging to 201 - Google Search
Thank you all! I actually just switched from a cable isp to a fiber isp so as far as the internet quality goes I'm much happier. I ended up putting the router in AP mode and turning off the wireless radios on the ISP router. Would I need to do anything to prevent double nat or anything like that? Or does putting the router in AP mode ensure this won't happen? Thank you all! Speeds are looking good using thus method.