Hello!
I've recently had FTTC installed via Plusnet who are trialling it and am so far very impressed (anything is an improvement over 512k...!). As you know, openreach supply their own modem (a rebranded Huawei,
HG612, and plusnet have provided a modified Thomson 585v7 to use PPPoE on port 4 of the router.
Now, I previously used a Netgear DG834Gv4 ADSL modem/router to connect to the internet, and from the specifications this also supports PPPoE. However, I am told that it needs to be able to do PPPoE over a WAN port for it to work...and I don't really know how to get it to work. I've flashed it with the DGTeam firmware but so far, no cigar. The status never changes from 'connecting' and I'm not sure it's configured properly to use the RJ45 sockets rather than the RJ11 (if you see what I mean). Interestingly if I connect the netgear box straight to the wall via the RJ11 cable, then it gets to 'negotiating', but no further than that. I'm fairly sure I still need to use the openreach box as the modem in order to sync properly anyway.
According to the guy at Plusnet some people have been successful in getting it working, and so it must be possible! (perhaps!)
Any help much appreciated!
