Will a VDSL2 modem support my VDSL plan

[chriise]

I have a 25/5 VDSL connection (Fuzenet Australia) that was set up with the Huawei HG630a modem-router that was supplied. As this is only supports N wifi, I wanted to upgrade.

I got a Budii Lite modem-router from my previous ISP (iiNet) which has both 2.4 and 5Ghz capability on 802.11ac. It says it supports ADSL2+ and VDSL2.

My questions:
1- should i be able to set up the Budii with my new ISP, or might it have been locked by iiNet?

2- if it supports VDSL2, should it also support my VDSL connection?

Bonus question... I read on wiki that VDSL only supports speeds up to 55 down and 3 up, with faster speeds requiring VDSL2. My ISP offers 'up to' 100/40 plans, would these be bottlenecked by VDSL? (My 25/5 does deliver 5 up according to ookla tests).

Thanks!

 

[bill001g]

In general it should work but you need to see if the ISP has a list of supported modem/routers or more importantly lists of things they do not support.

If you goal is to get to the 100/40 plans you need to talk to the ISP because it also is related to the condition of the phone lines.

If you just want the better wireless I would disable the wireless in the ISP router and then use your 802.11ac router as AP. This would ignore all the DSL problems by swaping routers. You would in effect replace just the radio part of the ISP router.

 

[chriise]

In general it should work but you need to see if the ISP has a list of supported modem/routers or more importantly lists of things they do not support.

If you goal is to get to the 100/40 plans you need to talk to the ISP because it also is related to the condition of the phone lines.

If you just want the better wireless I would disable the wireless in the ISP router and then use your 802.11ac router as AP. This would ignore all the DSL problems by swaping routers. You would in effect replace just the radio part of the ISP router.

Hi Bill,

Can you explain how I go about using 802.11ac router as an Access Point? Do I just connect the two together by Ethernet? Would this then give me the AC speeds for wifi?

As for 100/40, I probably wouldn't upgrade to this plan, but did wonder whether those speeds were truly possible over VDSL.

Thanks,
Chris

 

[bill001g]

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/36406-43-convert-wireless-router-wireless-access-point

There are even youtube videos.

It will use 802.11ac is you have end device that can also use 802.11ac.

The 100/40 speed is only a vdsl2 speed but you may actually be running vdsl2 now and they have it artificially limited. The hg630a device says it can run vdsl2. How fast any form of DSL runs is greatly affected by your distance from the telco equipment. 100/40 likely only works if you are pretty close.

 

[Isokolon]

there's basically no ISP that's using VDSL, most run VDSL2
as VDSL2 is an evolution of VDSL a VDSL2 modem is capable of running VDSL(1)

100/40 is possible over VDSL2 as long as you got an ARU (access remote unit) within ~950m to your home with a slight decrease in performance when over 800m (but it's not that big od a deal). after 1000m the VDSL/2 signal degrades heavily (after 1500m you probably won't be getting more than 20Mbits for example from your 100Mbits plan)
usually the ISP won't offer you this plan if you don't have such a unit in sufficient proximity and usually there is a "minimum max bandwith" associated with such a plan (like they guarantee that your line will at least be able to deliver 50/20 or you will be able to downgrade). ask your ISP about this.

 

[chriise]

Thanks everyone for your replies. got the budii working and it picked connection up as a VDSL2 service.