Modem Mode | Hub 5x | Cooling off period
The dream came true and Virgin laid the fibre and offered FTTP in an area where my ADSL would be lucky to get 32 Megabits per second. I did my research and found that Modem Mode is possible so that I...
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Try a different MAC address on the ASUS WAN side.
Hey carl_pearce, thanks for the suggestion 🙂 Can you expand on that a little please? Simply change the Asus WAN MAC to any old random MAC? Are you in a similar position to me?
When the traffic stopped flowing I tried plugging a laptop into port 1, the port that goes to my Asus WAN port, but that couldn't get an IP either, so I assume this is a DHCP server issue on the Virgin Media side, basically refusing the hand out an IP, possibly firmware related.
My service goes off on the 4th November so I am happy to try just about anything.
Thanks in advance 🙂
It's the WAN MAC that usually determines the IP address allocation, so maybe changing the MAC could help, although as you say if your laptop didn't work then nothing would I suppose.
Maybe try setting it to the MAC of the HUB.
If you've a router or switch you can plug an SFP+ module into you can replace the Hub5x entirely. No need to worry about modem mode.
The lack of modem mode is due to VM both wanting to force you to use their hub and wanting to manage it over a protocol that needs it to have an IP address: a Hub5x in a proper modem mode wouldn't have an IP address. If they didn't force you to use their hub they couldn't ruin your service periodically by running speed tests on it.