Proscend 180-t vdsl2 SFP Support

skoota

Hi All,

Apologies being yet another person to resurrect this thread, but I have been reading this with significant interest. I am helping out a friend in Queensland with their business network and recommending they get a Netgate 4100 - long story short, we need two WAN ports for a primary ADSL2 connection and failover 4G connection.

Originally I was thinking we would need to purchase a separate ASDL modem, but this thread seems to indicate we can instead use the Transcend 180-T vDSL2 SFP module...is my thinking correct? An all-in-one solution would be perfect.

They are using Aussie Broadband as their provider. Their connection is marketed as NBN VDSL but it's quite clearly ADSL2 since there is literally a phone cable plugging into the back of their Aussie Broadband provided router/modem into the DSL port (by the way, this router/modem is not particularly good or working for them...thus my recommendation to go to pfSense).

Being fortunate enough to have NBN FTTH myself I haven't had the "pleasure" of dealing with an ADSL connection in quite some time, so I am not fully across things like VPI/VCI settings...having a look at the settings on the current model it uses VSDL Profile 17a if that is releavant.

Anyway, this is a long way of asking do you think this is going to work? I'd hate to recommend something to them which then doesn't end up working!

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Patch

@skoota said in Proscend 180-t vdsl2 SFP Support:

Their connection is marketed as NBN VDSL

I use the an external modem (ISP supplied) in bridge mode.
That way if there are connections issues, I can reset the modem to factory default an confirm it is not a fault with my equipment.

skoota

@patch Thanks, but I am keen to eliminate the provided Aussie Broadband modem (as it's not particularly reliable) and, if possible, would like an all-in-one solution (rat than a separate modem in bridge mode) for both elegance and also fewer devices to go wrong in the chain...so I am keen to know whether the Transcend module will do the job.