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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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.