Configuration of Plusnet Hub One

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hello,

I have the OpenWRT firmware flashed to my old Plusnet Hub One. Did this whilst I was at work on a ship. I am now at home and trying to get it actually talking to Plusnet.

I have entered my Plusnet credentials into the Network/Interfaces/WAN page.

I have the ONT connected to the WAN port and the ONT has three green lights on.

I can try and manually connect to the WAN, but it is not working. Looking at the system log, I can see the error message:

IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): ptm0: link is not ready

But, I am not trying to use IP6, so maybe that's a red herring.

Hopefully someone has a clue. Just one more bit of information. The firmware version is LEDE Reboot 17.01.4r3560-79f57e422d.

Thanks!

Paul.

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That sounds like its still using the DSL port for the WAN connection.

You need to delete the dsl interface and add a wan interface as in the FTTP section in this https://openwrt.org/toh/bt/homehub_v5a

Note you dont need a VLAN as indicated there, the ONT will handle the VLAN ID.

Your version 17.01 is very old and unsupported, you need to upgrade to 24.10.5

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Just to state the obvious, these lantiq devices are designed with VDSL 50/10 in mind, yes you can use them for 100/40 MBit/s, but performance is really hard with the back to the wall there (~85 MBit/s without software flow-offloading). If you are on ftth with significantly faster WAN speeds than ~100 MBit/s, you really should look at different/ faster router hardware instead.

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I have used the BTHH5 successfully on FTTP upto the 145/30 service with Plusnet.
Follow the excellent installation guide referenced on the wiki page (https://openwrt.org/toh/bt/homehub_v5a) and do not forget to disable/stop/delete entries referencing DSL.

I also disabled the IPv6 stuff to reduce the error messages in the log.
This is my wan config. for FTTP:

config interface 'wan'
	option device 'wan'
	option proto 'pppoe'
	option username 'username@plusdsl.net'
	option password 'password'

Initially I also had a temporary wan connection setup using DHCP protocol (for upgrade/re-configure purposes) but had to disable it, as it would "grab" the port, fail to connect, and not let the PPPOE protocol attempt to connect.

Edit: I also setup SQM.

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Hi,

Thanks all.

So it seems the main takeaways are that I am using a very old version, so I will try and get that updated. I'll take a look at if it is trying to use the ADSL port as well.

Regarding performance, it should be good enough for just me for the moment. I do have a Firewalla Gold (not OpenWRT) in storage somewhere, but I would need to dig through lots of stuff to get to it and I just don't have time right now.

But thanks for all the pointers, I will let you know how I get on.

Paul.