Gigaclear

pepine

I agree totally with the issues re gigaclears wifi - it is absolute rubbish. I have invested in a BT whole home wifi to improve this but the speeds are still pretty poor - 100 Mbps on the PC but only 10 or so on wifi even right next to the disc. Does anyone know if I need to disable the gigaclear wifi and if so how? If not, any other advices? I'm not terribly techie but willing to have a go....

ceh209

ChiefGrasscutter wrote: »

Gigalcear specialise in places which do not have superfast broadband already available. It would simply not be economically viable for them to install a brand new FTTP network in the area for perhaps £1m if there were not enough people wanting to take it up because they already had it available elsewhere from BT.

This is what I don't understand. We had a leaflet through the door a few days ago saying Gigaclear was coming to our area in the next few months etc etc... but we already have 'superfast' broadband, in our case, from Vodafone. (Reminds me, I need to do a speed test). Yes we're rural, but I don't get why they're doing it!

keypulse

aweaton wrote: »

I have seen Gigaclear will be coming to my village in the next year or so. I am curious as to how their connection is presented at the house. I have a decent router (DrayTek 2860) for my current BT Infinity VDSL connection (HomeHub 5 is not used and is stored in a box). Ideally I'd like to be able to plug in directly in to their ONT over RJ45 and use something like PPPoE.

You won't be able to use PPPoE as Gigaclear will not put their ONT into bridge mode (unless you have a business contract, and even then there's a monthly charge for bridging).

You're still far better off using your 2860 so you could do the following:

On the Draytek:
WAN > Internet Access > WAN2
Set WAN2 to static IP eg. 192.168.10.1, 255.255.255.0, 192.168.10.254, your preferred DNSs
Wan Connection Detection = Always On
Make a note of the MAC address for that interface
WAN >General Setup > WAN2
Auto-negotiation, Always On and disable any VLAN tagging you might have been using for PPPoE

Save and reboot.

On the Genexis:
Disable WiFi. Change router address to eg. 192.168.10.254. Set static address reservation for your Draytek (using the MAC address you noted earlier) to 192.168.10.1.

Optional, put 192.168.10.1 as DMZ client and disable DHCP on Genexis.

Bear in mind if you have the 900mbps package you're highly unlikely to see full speed being throughput via the Draytek (depending on how much firewalling and filtering you put in place).