I wanted to change ADSL to NBN by the end of the month. Im looking at Aussie Broadband power user $99/m.
NBN connection in my area will be by FTTN. I dont need home phone, just fast internet speed. I can see the NBN Node box across the street, 30 meter away.
I got all new, Belong f@st 4315 modem, WRT1200ac router and Ubiquiti Unifi AP AC Pro.
My question is, can i bridge them 3 device together?
Bridge Modem to Router and Also Ubiquiti
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Oh and that NBN cabinet may not be the cabinet that you connect to.
The fact it is across the road doesn't increase your chances of being connected to it and you don't get to choose which cabinet you connect to.
Good Luck in Node Lotto… I lost out.. 400m from my node/pillar on my street but an 800m actual line length of shoddy copper with a Max Line Rate 32/9mbps and falling. This time last year it was 34/10 and 18 months ago I had 49/16.OK to bridge the modem, and turn off the WiFi to prevent interference!
The WRT acts as your router.
The Unifi AC Pro is OK, but you will need the software installed on a PC to configure. The native web interface is limited. These are great if you have multiple as they do hand off between themselves better than most, and a single (PC software) based interface for all devices inc managed switches is great.As a stand alone the TP-Link 225 is cheaper, faster (just) and has a fully featured web interface. It also has the server side software if you want it.
Unifi is better if you have multiple ubiquity managed devices (poor man's cisco)
*scubacoles, thank you for the reply. i will read the whirlpool thread. We have double storey house and granny flat next to it. i just dont want any wifi blackspots, hence the AP Pro. Not liking the NBN Node now, seem like it going backward. Theres is another Node box, about 300 meter. Telstra vans always park there and working on it.
This is why those of us who understood the technology were up in arms against it. We all pay "equally" both in terms of tax dollars per premises as well as monthly service charges, but the service is decidedly unequal.
I pay for 50/20 despite the fact I barely get half of that cause I want the fastest upload speed I can get.The phone network radiates out from the node/pillar in a roughly 90 degree arc. Imagine splitting up the neighborhood into squares and then plonking a node in one of the corners of each square.
You quickly realise that there are vastly greater numbers of premises on long lines than on short ones and if you happen to live in a corner of your grid, you only have a 25% chance that the nearest geographical node is yours! ie a 75% chance that you're connected on a long line!After identifying your Node, you then need to identify your Pillar. Grey steel "torpedo" looking device sticking vertically out of the ground.
The copper goes from the Node to the Pillar and then from Pillar to your home. This determines your total Copper Line Length.
My pillar is immediately next to the Node Cabinet, but the pillar for the next Node along is on a different street about 100m away. Apparently this is not uncommon and is a result of NBN building the network for the absolute cheapest price with no value placed on speed.
Obviously it must be cheaper to position the Node nearer to a Power Source and then run a long length of copper to the Service Area's pillar than to build the Node close to the Pillar and run a long length of Power supply from the nearest power source.
Belong locks its modem (https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/197859) so make certain you can put it into bridge mode to avoid disappointment come connection time.
The Whirlpool thread indicates that it can be put into Bridge mode, thereby bypassing all of the lockdown.
You only need to bridge the modem and router.. the AP is just a "dumb" device that you network to the router.
According to
https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2676109
you should be OK, provided you actually put the modem and router into Bridge mode.
Aussie Broadband use DHCP authentication (ie none) so you don't need a username/password in the router.