I have a Pace 5268AC gateway, and several other devices, most notably an iph8110 DVR unit. I also have a 2900 sqft 2-story house, and some spots where the wifi signal is weaker than I'd like. Ideally, I'd like to add a wifi mesh system, and have it handle all my routing and wifi. But, I have a few questions:
1. (probably the biggest question) Will a mesh system even work with the 5268AC?
2. I seem to recall the installer saying that the IPH8110 needs to be connected via Ethernet directly to the 5268AC, with no hub or switch in between. Is this a correct statement?
3. If I can't connect the IPH8110 through a switch, could I connect it using Coax rather than Ethernet, and free up the ethernet connection that way?
I'd love to connect the IPH8110 on a hub/switch, because then I could use the other ports on that switch to hook to the Roku box and Smart TV that are in the same room (right now both are connected via wifi), and also use a port to backhaul one of the mesh nodes. (Yes, I know that the mesh systems can do wireless backhaul, and some even have a dedicated radio, but in my experience, wired tends to be the better option)
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5268, iph8110, and Home Network?
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AT&T Dark Again in Brevard County, FL
Anyone else here go dark in Brevard? Any inside info what happened? It’s been storming every day here for a week so I wouldn’t be surprised something eventually got struck.
It’s been out since about 4:30 this afternoon.
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[AT&T Fiber] Is there any reason to keep POTS copper line after fiber?
Is there a good reason to keep the 30 year old copper line and network interface after switching to ATT Fiber? Is there some future scenario where the copper POTS interface would be useful? The services are underground, but the wire comes up the side of the house to the network interface. Should I just cut the line at the ground and remove the interface?
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[AT&T Fiber] Using Asuswrt-Merlin to bypass RG
Hi guys,
I successfully bypass AT&T's RG using rt-ac68u with extracted certs from both NVG510 and NVG589
No pfSense, or netgraph, or ubiquiti devices, or dumb switch needed.
I only tested with rt-ac68u, but the method should work for all Asuswrt-Merlin based wireless routers (Please let me know if it doesn't).
Basically, the AiProtection in Asuswrt auto tags net traffic with VLAN, so we only need to update wpa_supplicant which works with extracted certs.
More detail here https://github.com/bypassrg/att.
Any comments and suggestions are appreciated.
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First significant outage...
Well, I can finally say, after more than 18 months, that I've experienced a significant Fiber outage. Friday about noon, the entire neighborhood went down thanks to some nearby road construction and a fiber-seeking backhoe. Opened a trouble ticket, received no call, no one came by, but they claimed it was repaired... here I sit, waiting for visit #2 because I'm still showing ALARM and no PON on my ONT.
Le sigh. At least I'm getting ~50Mbps on Firstnet.
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How long from fiber burying till service?
I'm moving to new neighbourhood in North Carolina where AT&T is on "coming soon"'s list.
I saw the fiber optic getting buried last week and the team told me it was for AT&T. Any idea what the typical time frame is? Is it just stage one of 10 or is this the final step?
Also reading on AT&T forums I see the new neighbour hoods are getting the BGW320. Anyway to know if I'll be lucky to get it?
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[AT&T Fiber] Netgear R7000 VPN behind Arris BGM210-7000 gateway
I just upgraded to fiber from copper a few days ago. AT&T replaced the old 2Wire 3801HGV with BGM210-700. I have a Netgear R7000 that used to run behind 3801HGV for better WiFi (n/ac) and when I travelled I enabled R7000's VPN (server) so that I could access internet securely over public hotspots. BGM210's WiFi seems to work just fine so I want to take R7000 off the network to simplify the setup and only connect and use it for VPN when I travel. Yesterday, I got around to test R7000 VPN but had trouble to get it working. All of my online searching so far points to enabling IP passthrough in BGM210 as the solution. Or is it? Has anybody been able to use R7000 for VPN after BGM210 without going the route of IP passthrough? Thanks.
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[AT&T Fiber] Get AT&T Fiber at a better rate
AT&T charges $60/month, plus any taxes, for the first 12 months--and then it goes up to $80 (those prices include the $10 gateway fee):
$49.99 Internet Offer: Ends 8/31/20. Price for Internet 1000 after bill credit for new residential AT&T Fiber customers. Pricing for first 12 months only. After 12 mos., then prevailing rate applies (currently, $69.99/mo unless canceled by customer prior to end of 12 mos. Additional Fees & Taxes: AT&T one-time transactional fees, $10/mo. equipment fee, and monthly cost recovery surcharges which are not government-required may apply, as well as taxes. See www.att.com/fees for details. Installation: A $99 installation (full tech) may apply. Credit restrictions apply. Pricing subj to change. Subj. to Internet Terms of Service at att.com/internet-terms.toast.net, a reseller, now offers that same product at a flat $74.95/month. If you do the math, at 22.5 months is where the crossover occurs. After 22.5 months, you'll start paying AT&T more--that is, if they haven't raised their prices by then. Remember, "pricing subject to change".
To be fair, with the AT&T product you do get HBO Max--whatever that is this month.
And if you have other AT&T products and bundle, you can make the fiber price look very good. Whatever.
But if you're able to get AT&T fiber, and if that's all you want from AT&T, know that there's an alternative vendor who can sell you the same product.
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[VDSL] Use your own DSL modem with VDSL Uverse
Has anyone used their own DSL modem with Uverse VDSL service? I'm running into a lot of issues with the stock modem not being able to handle the connections and randomly rebooting when I'm using the internet. I know there is eap_proxy but that is for fiber customers, and I am on VDSL service.
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Second multi-day outage in six months
So frustrated. Having my second multi-day outage of residential Internet 1000 in six months after cutting over from 10+ years of flawless service with a (slower) competitor.
Pings to the RG’s gateway stopped early Monday and are coming up and down like a roller coaster. AT&T is rolling a truck scheduled to arrive more than 36 hours from now. 36 freakin’ hours. The kids schoolwork will be interrupted, my work from home will be interrupted, but they’ll sure want my invoice paid on time :(
Fortunately I’m not under contract. I may bounce back to the other guys even though I’ll have to sign a contract with them. I just can’t risk outages and slow repairs at this time with all of us at home.
Given the wide exposure of these forums there are probably many of you in the same boat. Thanks for letting me grouse.
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[AT&T Fiber] AT&T Fiber rollout strategy
Hello,
I am sure other people have asked this but is there any strategy to where AT&T decides to roll out Fiber?
I see fiber being installed around my area, but I hear it’s mostly due to new homes, and apartment buildings going in.
We have 2-3 new neighborhoods being built next to us and I saw AT&T trucks outside. I stopped to ask if they were installing fiber, and they said no they are bringing regular VDSL2 to the new neighborhood. I don’t get what makes them decide where they want to install fiber and where not to. I currently live in a suburb of Detroit. Only thing I can get is Comcast, or 25mbps att service.
Thanks.
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[AT&T Fiber] Why do thumbnails on Youtube load like I'm on dialup?
Each video thumbnail image takes several seconds to load from top to bottom. It reminds me of when I had 56k dialup internet 20+ years ago. Anyone else have this experience with Youtube on AT&T Fiber?
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[U-verse Voice] Need to report outage for friend after Hurricane
I was able to make sure their power outage was reported, down to the address of the outage. I want to find where I can report that their fiber got knocked down from where it goes to the home .. iNet and Phone. Even having signed into my own AT&T account, I've been unable to enter their or any address to report or get onto repair work lists. They're older and if you're trying to help others out and there is no way to easily enter their service address at least, it's very frustrating. It would be my hope that this will be remedied, sooner rather than later.
Outage >> ZipCode 77702 .. non-disclosing base level info.
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WPA_Supplicant still work?
Friend of mine is getting fiber here in memphis, and I mentioned the WPA_supplicant method with his udmpro. Is the method still working?
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[AT&T Fiber] Using Asuswrt-Merlin to bypass RG
Hi guys,
I successfully bypass AT&T's RG using rt-ac68u with extracted certs from both NVG510 and NVG589
No pfSense, or netgraph, or ubiquiti devices, or dumb switch needed.
I only tested with rt-ac68u, but the method should work for all Asuswrt-Merlin based wireless routers (Please let me know if it doesn't).
Basically, the AiProtection in Asuswrt auto tags net traffic with VLAN, so we only need to update wpa_supplicant which works with extracted certs.
More detail here https://github.com/bypassrg/att.
Any comments and suggestions are appreciated.
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My Wifi inspector results
My last post got locked - I am guessing because it turned into bickering factions about ATT Gateways and talking to your neighbors. Look - I have a wifi signal problem. I have gig service that generally runs above 500 mbs, if not 700 mbs, and 10 feet away from the Gateway, I get 20-40 mbs wireless. I am just trying to improve results from the Gateway, and I live in about 800 sf. Multi-unit building. Someone suggested downloading wifi inspector and posting the results. Here they are. The blackline is my network.
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[AT&T Fiber] Issues with a Asus RT-ax86u ipv4 doesn't work but ipv6 does
So I have been having issues with the BGW-210 att modem, so I decided to use my own router. I bought th ax86u and put the BGW-210 into passthrough mode and it was working perfectly for a few days, then all of sudden I started getting issues connecting to websites on both wifi and ethernet, upon troubleshooting I found that ipv4 sites do not work while ipv6 sites do. Any ideas?
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What kind of service is 25 Mbps speed tier ?
I know obviously it is not fiber. Like I mean is it DSL ?
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Asheville
I might be moving to the Asheville area in about 2 to 4 years, and am wondering if there is a map of where GPON or XGSPON service is available.
I know not all areas have service (eg HOAs with exclusive Charter contracts).
Is there a listing (by zip+4) of areas in Buncombe and surrounding counties that are served out of Fletcher?
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[AT&T Fiber] Gateway bypass with WPA_supplicant stopped working 2 days ago
Long time lurker, first time poster... I did follow the guides and the gateway bypass has worked wonderfully for about 6 months.
However, my USG alerted me that the link was down Saturday (11:38 am PST, 2020-08-09) and it hasn't worked since.
I rebooted my USG, double-triple checked the configs (which I had not changed in the first place) but no dice on getting traffic through, despite successful auth:
Aug 10 10:35:28 gw01 wpa_supplicant[3909]: eth2: CTRL-EVENT-EAP-STARTED EAP authentication startedAug 10 10:35:28 gw01 wpa_supplicant[3909]: eth2: CTRL-EVENT-EAP-PROPOSED-METHOD vendor=0 method=13Aug 10 10:35:28 gw01 wpa_supplicant[3909]: eth2: CTRL-EVENT-EAP-METHOD EAP vendor 0 method 13 (TLS) selectedAug 10 10:35:28 gw01 wpa_supplicant[3909]: eth2: CTRL-EVENT-EAP-PEER-CERT depth=2 subject='/C=US/O=ATT Services Inc/CN=ATT Services Inc Root CA' hash=[removed]Aug 10 10:35:28 gw01 wpa_supplicant[3909]: eth2: CTRL-EVENT-EAP-PEER-CERT depth=1 subject='/C=US/O=ATT Services Inc/CN=ATT Services Inc Enhanced Services CA' hash=[removed]Aug 10 10:35:28 gw01 wpa_supplicant[3909]: eth2: CTRL-EVENT-EAP-PEER-CERT depth=0 subject='/C=US/ST=Michigan/L=Southfield/O=ATT Services Inc/OU=OCATS/CN=aut02pltnca.pltnca.sbcglobal.net' hash=[removed]Aug 10 10:35:28 gw01 wpa_supplicant[3909]: eth2: CTRL-EVENT-EAP-PEER-ALT depth=0 DNS:aut02pltnca.pltnca.sbcglobal.netAug 10 10:35:28 gw01 wpa_supplicant[3909]: eth2: CTRL-EVENT-EAP-SUCCESS EAP authentication completed successfullyAug 10 10:35:28 gw01 wpa_supplicant[3909]: eth2: CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to [removed] completed [id=0 id_str=]
Gateway plugged back in and connected successfully.
Aug 10 11:01:55 gw01 wpa_supplicant[3909]: eth2: CTRL-EVENT-EAP-PEER-CERT depth=2 subject='/C=US/O=ATT Services Inc/CN=ATT Services Inc Root CA' hash=[removed]Aug 10 11:01:55 gw01 wpa_supplicant[3909]: eth2: CTRL-EVENT-EAP-PEER-CERT depth=1 subject='/C=US/O=ATT Services Inc/CN=ATT Services Inc Enhanced Services CA' hash=[removed]Aug 10 11:01:55 gw01 wpa_supplicant[3909]: eth2: CTRL-EVENT-EAP-PEER-CERT depth=0 subject='/C=US/ST=Michigan/L=Southfield/O=ATT Services Inc/OU=OCATS/CN=aut01chcgil.chcgil.sbcglobal.net' hash=[removed]Aug 10 11:01:55 gw01 wpa_supplicant[3909]: eth2: CTRL-EVENT-EAP-PEER-ALT depth=0 DNS:aut01chcgil.chcgil.sbcglobal.netAug 10 11:01:55 gw01 wpa_supplicant[3909]: eth2: CTRL-EVENT-EAP-SUCCESS EAP authentication completed successfully
In between those 2 chunks of logs, I plugged my gateway back in and it does connect to the internet. So I'm very confused. Could AT&T have done something on their end? Have certs been updated? I have not seen anyone else being cut-off like this, so here I am, asking for advice.
The authentication servers seem to have changed from 'pltnca' 'chcgil', possibly due to an outage of some sort? But then why does my gateway with the same certificate as my USG connects?
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