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McMatt
post Jun 24 2025, 09:28 AM

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Morning all, I recently subscribed to TIME for my new home. I have renovated it in such that I have relocated my fibre wall socket to within a tiny utility room just after my entrance. I pulled Cat6 cable to the ceiling of a passageway to the rooms for POE convenience.

Does anyone have any experience setting up an ASUS AX3000 Dual-Band WiFi 6 Power over Ethernet (PoE)? I tried configuring it via the Asus Expert Wifi app and though it shows successful, I can't connect to the created SSID.

I reached out to TIME and they say in order to use a 3rd party router, I have to set this ASUS router to bridge mode. But I can't seem to find this setting. If anyone has any input or experience with this, appreciate some assistance, even a home visit which I'll gladly pay a token for your time.

Coz right now, my master room/bath do not get signal from the TIME modem cum router in the utility room. And other rooms signal is poor. I need the ASUS to at least be an AP at the designated location.
McMatt
post Jun 24 2025, 05:51 PM

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QUOTE(ChenKaiWen @ Jun 24 2025, 09:51 AM)
You need to set the TIME unit in bridge mode. You can call TIME to ask them to do it or ask them through Live Chat.
Then obtain PPPoE username and password from TIME Self care. Set up Asus router with it, no ISP/VLAN profile needed.

And what’s the Asus unit? “ASUS AX3000 Dual-Band WiFi 6 Power over Ethernet (PoE)” doesn’t tell much. Need the model number. Since it has PoE, it doesn’t seem like it’ll be a router, but only an access point. I have no experience with their AP, but the general setup is what you’ve done and connecting the AP to the main router. Making sure it has obtained an IP from main router.

If it’s an AP, then no need for bridge mode on TIME unit
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ASUS ExpertWiFi EBA63 ... didn't realise I did not put the model there.

I will try connecting via desktop router.asus.com to get a connection to the unit. Somehow on the ASUS Expertwifi app, it may have limited settings that I can see.

QUOTE(blacktubi @ Jun 24 2025, 10:02 AM)
I guess there's some confusion here

Sounds like you want to use both the TIME combo modem router and ASUS router at the same time

Bridge mode is only used when you want to turn the TIME combo modem router into a modem only so you can use your own router, doing so will disable wireless function on the TIME router

In this case, it means you should not change the TIME combo modem router into bridge mode

In this case, just reset your ASUS EBA63 then setup into access point mode and it should work properly

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Initially, I did thought of using both combo and the router at the same time. Whichever works that I can get signal to the furthest rooms.

Noted on the bridge mode. I was looking high and low for the operation mode. See it, and it shows router mode. But doesn't allow me to change.

I generally understood all the shared information. I am grateful for the sharing and hope to try it tonight to get it to work. Thanks notworthy.gif
McMatt
post Jun 30 2025, 01:53 PM

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QUOTE(jjj2 @ Jun 26 2025, 09:41 PM)
Hi, just leave your TIME ONT as it is, plug in your Cat6 into anyone of the LAN port of the Time ONT and the other end to your Asus AP. You cant connect to the SSID simply because the AP did not get IP address from the TIME ONT.
We are not sure the exact location of your Asus AP placement, perhaps you could highlight in a layout diagram as if it's very near to the TIME ONT, then you may consider turning off the wireless signal on the ONT. You may download some Wifi apps to check the RSSI value of the Asus AP... generally -67dBm to -30dBm would give you pretty good connection.
Thanks.
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Thanks for the above. I managed to sort it out the very next morning. Waking up, I suddenly thought about whether I connect the POE to the TIME ONT or not. Went to check, I had all my Cat6 cable connected to the PoE switch, but did not have one connecting the Time ONT to the PoE switch. Oversight such as this gave me 2 days and endless hours of trial and error.

But it's all good now. Thanks thumbsup.gif

 

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