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[AlienatedCargo]

Hi all,

I acquired a comtrend VR3030 and planned to pair it with an external router at some point to replace ISP provided device. I had a quick look at the management gui for the comtrend and it seems great with one thing missing. I was trying to find out where to enter an ISP username/password (as plusnet not sure about others require this for authentication when connecting). Does anyone know if this is possible or if I've just over looked something? I basically just factory reset it and connected a laptop to it via RJ45 so get on so didn't do any vdsl setup or anything.

Thanks

Richard

[Alex Atkin UK]

If you are using it in bridge mode (which you should be if you use an external router) then you wouldn't put the username and password in there - that goes on the router.

The catch is from previous discussions it sounds like these devices are ISP branded so it might not expose the configuration options you need.
That maybe why you couldn't find the PPPoE login details section?

[AlienatedCargo]

Ah I see, I'll have to pick up a router also and try it out. Looking at the gui there doesn't seem to be any ISP branding but that's not to say it isn't. If it doesn't work I do have a oepnreach Huawei modem also that I've had for a few years.

Thank you for the advice.

[Alex Atkin UK]

If its in bridge mode you can setup a dialup connection in Windows over the ethernet port and plug it straight in to test that way.

 I found this https://www.thekentongroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/VR-3030-Comtrend-User-Manual.pdf

[AlienatedCargo]

Ah I didn't know that. I'll give it a try when I have a day off later in the week.

Thanks for your help.