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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, de...
- 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.
The default DHCP range of the Telus hub is the same as my network (192.168.1.1/24), so it caused total chaos.
The problem here is the Telus hub turned the wifi back on by itself after I deactivated it. I had to log in again and turn it back off. Full bridge is an option, just as bridge to port 1. Bridging to port 1 keeps wifi alive and the DHCP server, which I do not want. When I logged into the Telus hub on the now re-activated wifi signal, the router was still in full bridge mode, which even according to their description turns OFF wifi.
WHY did the Telus hub decide to re-enable Wifi all by itself. That is the problem here.
It may have simply been pushed a software update that causes it to reset it's settings.
You may have better luck just eliminating the Telus hub and taking the SFP (non +) module out and plugging it into a media converter such as a TP-Link MC220L then just plug that into your router.
Optik TV with Ubiquiti is really a non-issue it's pretty easy to setup if you know how to modify the config.gateway.json on the cloud key I run it all with no issues.
Sorry for reviving this old thread but thank you kevhawk! For the last two and a half months I've been struggling to get the Arcadyan Telus Wi-Fi Hub to let me use my own router in bridge mode. For some reason it insisted on being a DHCP server on all ports regardless of bridge mode settings, preventing my own router from accessing the internet *at all* and forcing me to hard factory reset it every time I tried to enable "full" (all ports) bridge mode. At least I think that's what was going wrong, either way I eventually gave up and used it as my network's router for a few months (ugh).
Finally last night I got fed up and somehow by the right combination of search terms, I came across this thread. Ordered the recommended TP-Link MC220L and got it set up today. It works flawlessly so far and now I can use my eero mesh Wi-Fi system without the pain of the Arcadyan hub acting as my router! Thank you for the clear recommendation and instructions for how to use the MC220L with the fibre cable coming into my house (I had no idea the SFP module came out from the Telus hub)! Latency and speed are just as good as they were before (150/150 plan).
If I can just plug direct into SFP from the fibre coming into the house that would make things even easier.
What do you think of going with something like Ubiquiti's UniFi Dream Machine Pro? Has a 10G SFP+ port for WAN, which should be backwards compatible?
It's still in early access, but hopefully should be generally available soon.
Features:
- 8-Port gigabit switch with 10G SFP+ port
- Dual WAN ports for redundancy and load balancing: 10G SFP+ and 1G RJ-45
I was probably going to go UDM Pro anyhow to simplify my install, instead of running Cloud Key Gen 2+ and a USG security gateway.
- 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.kevhawk : "SFP and SFP+ are not compatible hence why I mentioned the need for a media convertor."
Not entirely true. There is backwards compatibility, at least with the Ubiquiti equipment. You can put an SFP cable/ONT into an SFP+ port -- you may need to force it to 1Gbps, but other than that, there's no issues.
kevhawk : "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."
The Ubiquiti Security Gateway Pro (USG-4P) has SFP ports and works perfectly with the Nokia SFP provided by Telus. I have three units all set up and working correctly with this.
