Anyone out there can lend a helping hand on how to disable the Huawei ONT as a router and make it into Modem mode only. As I want to use my own Asus XT8 to manage the wifi and PPOE settings.

This post has been edited by spamfish: Jul 13 2024, 12:00 PM

call TIME cs to change to bridge mode

manage to call TIME cs to change the mode. After that I tried to plug in my router to LAN1 of the ONT with PPOE user name / pswd. Does not seem to work. Any hint?

I'm also want to know. Not sure how the cabiings to plug etc.

cabling is straigh foward. Should be from your own brand router WAN port to the Huawei ONT LAN1. But it also depends on how you config the ONT port tagging. I cant still get it to work though.

No DO NOT set your 3rd party router using PPPoE for its WAN connection.

You need to set it as dynamic IP WAN type as authentication is already done by your TIME supplied Huawei router turned into bridged mode.

TIME does not use the obsolete PPPoE for authentication unlike TM Unifi. Authentication is done on its server side to assign IPs to its router/ONTs. We call this method IPoE.

https://vasexperts.com/resources/glossary/ipoe/

Some of them still using PPPoE, but with implemented VLAN id of 499. You may need to put VLAN id.

i did read somewhere on reddit, u need to turn on vlan on 3rd party router to get it to work.

TS should check on his Huawei ONT whether it have VLAN or not. It will show something like this 499/0

thank you for the suggestion...let me try it out.

Usually if you're using an ISP other than TIME on their network then only you'd need to put in the VLAN to separate the traffic.

If you're using Time Fibre ISP just like Allo where you're using the incumbent ISP, City Broadband then no need VLAN. The IPoE authentication is already done and untagged by bridged device itself except the LAN routing part and DHCP assignment.

This is how i do it

Time modem HG8145X6
Tplink router AX73

step 1: call TIME cs ask to change to bridge mode
step 2: go to modem admin panel, disable wifi
step 3: connect LAN1 modem to WAN port router
step 4: inside router admin panel, change connection type to pppoe and insert your time user:pass credential

done

Yup this works for me as well. Same setup

may I know why need to call them to change to bridge mode ? cuz I can change the mode in the modem settings.. pls enlighten me, thx

How can you change it? Majority of the settings including bridge mode is not available using the credentials on the sticker. It's only available through another username with a password only TIME knows and remote access by TIME themselves.

Me, myself had tried editing HTML. Plenty of settings were revealed. Doing anything will result in an error.

I dont know man, i ask the installer to give me the access to the modem, then he just give me... im quite sure that I can change it... thats why im curious why so many people here say we need to call... correct me if im wrong... pls see screenshot below

yes confirm need to call customer service and ask them to enable for you.

wait, i can change the settings there, still need to call ? im so confused

I change to Time fibre. their ONT is modem + router so they need to enable something from their side to make it work.

Nobody here had ever gotten access that's why. Can you tell us the username and password?