MiserableCurmugeon
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I love my RT- AX88U but I've recently dumped BT and gone to another provider of FTTP. Their service requires that I set Auto IP and a VLAN ID to connect to the ONT. The AX88U (it's not a Pro) can't do VLAN in native mode.
So I've managed to cobble something together using a 15 year old DSL-N66U which does do 802.1Q / VLAN, plonked between ONT and AX88U. I turned everything off, set the VLAN ID in WAN settings and put the AX88U in the DMZ. It's not pretty and the speed is less than half my contracted number but at least it works. I tried it with the N66U in bridge mode but it wouldn't work, presumably because the ONT is no longer seeing a VLAN ID. But if anyone knows better and can advise settings I'd be grateful.
There's no solution available if I go the Merlin route. I did find an excellent description of how to do VLAN with the AX88U on the forum.
www.snbforums.com
To be honest it's way over my head, I'm not sure it's really what I'm looking for and I wouldn't know where and how to start implementing it. If anyone can suggest a more "Dummy's Guide to VLAN" method I'm all ears and thankful.
If there's no straightforward solution, I guess I'm going to end up splashing £300 on an RT-BE88U, which does have VLAN in the specification. I'll then relegate the AX88U to be a very over capable, backhauled Mesh node. I can transfer all my setup such as the extensive list of fixed IPs from the old to the new. There's no mention though of VLAN in the ASUS manual for the BE, so I'm not completely bought in yet.
So my question is twofold. Firstly - is the VLAN mode on the BE88U okay to meet this requirement for a VLAN ID for the ONT? Secondly - am I making it all just too complicated and is there a simpler, cheaper route?
Many thanks.
p.s. I don't need WiFi 7 at present or in the forseeable future.
p.p.s I can post screenshots of the DSL-N66U WAN settings that worked, but I'm sure they're not needed for this.
So I've managed to cobble something together using a 15 year old DSL-N66U which does do 802.1Q / VLAN, plonked between ONT and AX88U. I turned everything off, set the VLAN ID in WAN settings and put the AX88U in the DMZ. It's not pretty and the speed is less than half my contracted number but at least it works. I tried it with the N66U in bridge mode but it wouldn't work, presumably because the ONT is no longer seeing a VLAN ID. But if anyone knows better and can advise settings I'd be grateful.
There's no solution available if I go the Merlin route. I did find an excellent description of how to do VLAN with the AX88U on the forum.
VLANs, Trunk interface, tagged and untagged traffic RT-AX86U and RT-AX88U
It took me a while to make this thing work. I could find some configs but nothing worked as provided. After combining information from several different posts I came to the working solution posted below. As it took me a while to get it to work I figured I'd share it here in case anyone else...
www.snbforums.com
If there's no straightforward solution, I guess I'm going to end up splashing £300 on an RT-BE88U, which does have VLAN in the specification. I'll then relegate the AX88U to be a very over capable, backhauled Mesh node. I can transfer all my setup such as the extensive list of fixed IPs from the old to the new. There's no mention though of VLAN in the ASUS manual for the BE, so I'm not completely bought in yet.
So my question is twofold. Firstly - is the VLAN mode on the BE88U okay to meet this requirement for a VLAN ID for the ONT? Secondly - am I making it all just too complicated and is there a simpler, cheaper route?
Many thanks.
p.s. I don't need WiFi 7 at present or in the forseeable future.
p.p.s I can post screenshots of the DSL-N66U WAN settings that worked, but I'm sure they're not needed for this.
