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That does not sound promising from your perspective, maybe worth a telephone call with BT to see why the G.fast is no longer available ? Would be interesting to understand why they are no longer offering G.fast ?
Yeah I asked when I was on the phone to them and told they had no idea why it’s not offered any more, they said It’s Openreach’s call and they dont usually update them. Interestingly Openreach’s own site still shows 330Mb G.fast available when you put the house details in, of course not as accurate but it’s a strange one. Either way I’m not getting locked into another contract when I’m due to renew soon, I’ll probably try get a rolling monthly contract on the go for now until something changes.
(The draytek has been rock steady holding since I put it in now, still showing the 127db line attenuation but getting 200mb download speeds and no recorded line resyncs – however CRCs are showing its ugly head).
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I posted these not long ago, the first one was when I was told my contract was coming to an end so I checked the wholesale, the 2nd is current results. To note as well, I assume all ISPs use the wholesale checker as Shell was offering me 250mb+ a month ago with a better speed guarantee, now Shell is offering me 80mb max too and other G.fast providers have also lowered their packages on offer.
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Nope original G.fast install was just a Master socket change and a G.fast faceplate filter. I’m borrowing a telescopic ladder to get up and check the jelly crimps myself just waiting for a friend to drop the ladder off.
Yep, telephone pole about 10m dropwire to the junction box on the house, and then about 6-8m of CW1308 cable to the inside. I’ve got 2 cabinets both roughly 100m as the crow flies, both under 200m if you follow the roadways assuming thats where the ducting is, so the signal attenuation makes no sense to me, especially with a clear phone noise test in the test socket.
My contract with BT is up in 20 days according to the website, and they’re now only offering VDSL by the looks of it (see attached)… I’m assuming there’s external factors here that are far out of my control. Their fibre promise is laughable as “G.fast is available in this area, its not a fibre priority so 2026 is the target installation date”.
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Something not correct with that value Good to see you have the option for G.fast and Line stats look good apart from Attenuation, does the actual DrayTeK now work without being connected to HH ?
Yep the draytek worked from the start – I just plugged in the HH for BT to run some “tests” as they couldnt see a HH connected so they were basically unable to do anything from their end. They also marked my line having a fault but theres no resolution or predicted resolution on the fault status. I was going to leave the HH, but it performed an update in the middle of the night, and basically the logs were showing 0.0db for everything and disconnects started happening again. I’m not quite ready to get an engineer out and pay that silly fee again like last time.
I’m not sure if I shown this before but I’m wondering if this is the cause of some issue as well…..
It’s been a fair while since BT16A junction boxes were used right lol. It’s not even under an eaves its just on the side of the house exposed.
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I’ve connected the Draytek Vigor back up as the homehub was working fine for a few days, until it updated itself – interestingly my Signal attenuation shows as 0.0 / 0.0 db on the HH not the 39ish that the Asus shown, and the draytek Shows 127db for line attenuation now. I’m assuming they use different algorithms to work it out or its a ridiculous glitch.
The Draytek is running in Modem and Router mode not a bridge (but I can’t connect any wired devices just yet) So I’m running wifi connection, managed to get IPv6 working as the Asus was incompatible with BT / Openreach’s implementation of IPv6 /56 I believe.
I’m fully connected and VLAN is 101, DSL light does the usual blink until its connected and then steady.
Here’s the VLAN TAG page (note it has customer TPID 0x8100 and Service TPID 0x8100 sections, which only one works at a time, I’ve made successful connection using both – the Service VLAN 101 was the default enabled VLAN Tag which according to draytek is the one to use as its BT only firmware once it detects the G.fast Line)
I’ve also got an option for the Modem Code, it connects using either of these and I can’t see any information regarding the correct one or a difference infact if i manually change them. (highlighted in red also)
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Comes under the PPPoE/PPPoA details page,even though it says ADSL settings, that’s where the manual shows to change G.fast settings / VDSL settings too. Theres no specific option for PPPoE as annotated in the pic. However it does establish connection, gives me an IP and has internet access but under stats it shows G.Fast PPPoA. Weird one eh Draytek support havnt got back to me and theres little info about it anywhere.
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Definitely the best option to get underlying issue fixed
DrayTeK , very reliable Yeah I was going to go for the just the basic modem option for G.fast the 160 model, but would mean getting another router or moving the RTAX82U I have and then getting a 2nd one for here. but the difference between the Modem only and the full router with wireless unit was only something like an extra ÂŁ30. Plus im looking forward to actually using a workable QoS and IPv6 again!. Glad to be rid of this AC88U, and with full telnet access and it supports FTTP it’s a no brainer to switch coming from this lemon.
Saw plenty for sale on ebay, but I couldn’t sell it to somebody else and screw them over. instead Amazon can take it up with Asus.
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like ur diagram mate I made a diagram as well and how i would have done it and used ur asus rt in ap mode
haha cheers, Yeah its in AP mode running a Merlin fork, forgot to mention that. I’ve got a spool of CAT 6A and connectors on its way tomorrow, and a few meters of Cat 7 just to check it out I’m going to sort things out and buy a proper switch like you mention.
I’ve also just noticed the BT Wholesale checker is available to use again.. This is out of my control by the looks of things if you compare these two images.
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What an absolute masterpiece if I do say so myself, haha. This is the basic gist of it. Havent had any coverage issues or bandwidth issues as its just 2 of us here, and its a good job anyway cause the QoS on the DSL-AC88U is…. lacking to say the best.
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DrayTeK , very reliable 
