BT full fibre with Netgear R9000

[vatovey]

Evening all,

Had BT full fibre 900 installed yesterday, all working fine with the supplied BT SmartHub 2 router.

Ideally, would like to replace with my own Netgear R9000, which has the latest version of DD-WRT installed.

Should note that the R9000 was working fine with previous ISP (TalkTalk) via FTTC / OpenReach modem.

Just wondering if anyone has been successful in getting the R9000 working with BT FTTP ?, and if so - anything special/specific which needs to be configured ?

Thanks, Vaughn.

[licquorice]

If you could be bothered to read the countless posts regarding third party routers, you would discover that all you need to do is enter the generic PPPoE credentials of username [email protected] and password BT

[vatovey]

Probably should have mentioned that I have done quite a bit of reading up on here, and on the web in general - along with getting in touch with BT Tech Support.

Mixed messages from BT Tech Support, some say [email protected], some say [email protected] and others, pretty much every combination has failed.

Have reset my R9000 back to DD-WRT factory defaults.

WAN is always 0.0.0.0

Was hoping I was doing something silly wrong, which tbh is likely to be the case 🙂

Thanks for the reply though.

[imjolly]

As @licquorice posted you need to use the username and any password in your Netgear   they are generic and not individual to you so just ignore what BT tech told you

[vatovey]

I thought it was generic, I'm currently using [email protected] via PPPoE

Are there any other common settings which need to be set on a DD-WRT router ?

Are there any DD-WRT guides (official, or un-official) out there ?

[pippincp]

You can always try here.

https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/ 

[vatovey]

Already on there, but thanks for the suggestion.

Have made some progress, it seems as if the implementation of PPPoE is not working on the Netgear R9000 when DD-WRT is installed. I ended up using PPPoE Dual, which then leased a WAN address successfully.

From what I can gather, PPPoE is working fine on the Netgear R9000 when Netgear firmware is running on it.