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Telus Wi-Fi Hub re-enabling wifi despite being in full bridge mode?! DHCP chaos.
Hello All,
First post here... have had Telus 750/750 for a week now.
This morning (at about 3 am), it seems my Telus Wi-Fi Hub (white diaper genie style), re-enabled the WiFi services on it, despite it being disabled and being in full bridge mode. This is problematic as it seems to also spin up a DHCP services etc... Started getting alarms that all my security cameras were dropping offline.
I have a full Ubiquiti unifi deployment through the house, so this of course caused chaos.
I thought that being in full bridge mode disabled wifi services, and was surprised when I logged into the modem (through the now available Telus wifi SSID), to see it STILL in full bridge mode, but with all Wifi service running. I toggled bridge mode, got the WiFi off and everything back to normal.
Question: Is this a known issue?? Do I have to look forward to my entire IT infrastructure suffering a stroke with two DHCP servers running once a week?
Thanks.
- SFP and SFP+ are not compatible hence why I mentioned the need for a media convertor.
You could also use a Ubiquiti Edge Router ER-X-SFP but it's got some issues with the Nokia SFP Telus uses and is not unifi.
With the media converter your simply converting the fiber SFP which is max 1Gbps to single 1Gbps Ethernet port you can just plug into your current hardware.
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- Nighthawk
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Do you have an ONT installed in the house? It should have an ethernet line running between it and the Telus gateway. If you do and you don't have Optik TV, just connect your router (WAN port) directly to the ONT. If you do have Optik then the setup will be a little more complex and still require the Telus gateway to be in use.
They installed a box on the outside of the house, I have no idea what's inside it. The fibre line comes into the house into the SFP port on the Telus Wi-Fi Hub/modem, which the goes from port one on the Telus Wi-Fi Hub to my Ubiquiti Security Gateway via RJ45. I don't think I have an ONT?
Pro Tip: The installer will try and just put the Telus Wi-Fi Hub into bridge mode to port 1, you have to put it in full bridge mode to disable the wireless functionality of the Telus device and stop the DHCP server... took my a while to figure that out after the installer had left.
What do you mean by "Full" Bridge mode? I'm running a similar setup with Ubiquiti gear connected to the Telus router Port 1 Bridged. I set DHCP on the Telus box to serve a different subnet and range from that used on the Ubiquiti subnet ... and the SSIDs have different names as well. If you set things up so that your Ubiquiti gear joined a specific SSID that is different from the SSID(s) used on the Telus box I don't see how there could be a problem. There would only be a problem if two different DHCP servers were assigning the same IP subnet and range along with different gateways and DNS servers etc. I'm assuming that you also have Ubiquiti wireless APs as well and are managing the Ubiquiti side of things with their Unifi management software - you don't mention anything about having OptikTV but if you don't have OptikTV you could actually connect the fibre line directly to the Ubiquiti USG and not use the Telus router at all (of course you would need a fibre port on the USG or a converter of some sort).
