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0 pointsTourus6y ago0 comments

> PPoE with my credentials which were somehow hardwired because no one ever told me my username/password

They make it very hard to use your own "Box B", but I've set this up twice now (most recently last week). Get the username and password from CenturyLink (the tech that installs the service has this, or call them). Then, google search "century link vlan 201 wan tag". The trick is you need a router that has this functionality, most basic consumer ones don't.

Unfortunately, even if you follow all directions and it still doesn't work troubleshooting is a nightmare, very little or no help from their customer support.

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0xff00ffee6y ago· 1 in thread

Ah I see. My WRT1900AC doesn't have that option. I was running OpenWRT but ran into some issues and panicked back to the default firmware. Now that I have another wireless router I might dare it again.

jacob0196y ago

OpenWRT is fantastic when you get used to it. I prefer the CLI but the GUI works well too.

eggsome6y ago

Be aware that for many cheap routers you can't do the VLAN tagging the "normal" way via the web interface. Like this: https://blog.mapstrata.com/post/internode_openwrt/

For people with cheap/crappy hardware like me, if you have to set VLAN2 via the sub-interface then your config needs to look like this:

  config interface 'wan'
    option ifname 'eth1.2'
    option proto 'pppoe'
    option username 'your_internode_username@internode.on.net'
    option password 'SecretPassword'

All of the above can be set via the GUI, except the "eth1.2" part. The above works if you happen to be with Internode.

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