How to get Bell Fibe in Quebec/Ontario (Internet and IPTV) working with pfSense

zax123

Hello

Finally solve my problem, had to replace de HH2000…

Thx

You also could bypass the HH2000 altogether. When you plug pfSense into a HH2000 LAN port, the HH2000 goes into some kind of bridge mode, but it definitely slows down the connection and adds another layer that your packets have to travel through.

My intention with this thread was to eliminate the need for the HH2000 which is definitely possible. I've lived without it for more than a year now.

Now I need to upgrade my hardware because I got gigabit fiber from Bell and my little APU can't handle the speed. :(

esnesfp

Hello

Yes you're right.

But after testing my speed i didn't a big diff between bridge mode and direct input from ONT.

I'm on 50/50 i get 67mgb/s in and 6ms ping.

I have also tried the gigabit plan i was getting 980 mgb/s wich is insanly fast but the plan only give me 150g of bandwith wich is ridiculous so i revert back to 50/50 unlimited.

My pfsense is in and old computer that i have and put in some good ram, HD, 3 ethernet cards, access by ssh or webui, but i suspect that some of my ethernet card don't manage very well vlan tagging.

Good luck

zax123

@esnesfp:

Hello

Yes you're right.

But after testing my speed i didn't a big diff between bridge mode and direct input from ONT.

I'm on 50/50 i get 67mgb/s in and 6ms ping.

I have also tried the gigabit plan i was getting 980 mgb/s wich is insanly fast but the plan only give me 150g of bandwith wich is ridiculous so i revert back to 50/50 unlimited.

My pfsense is in and old computer that i have and put in some good ram, HD, 3 ethernet cards, access by ssh or webui, but i suspect that some of my ethernet card don't manage very well vlan tagging.

Good luck

@esnesfp,

Do you mind sharing what the specs of the old computer are? I was looking into a SuperMicro motherboard and case, etc… and the price was coming close to $1000 which is ridiculous.

Thanks!

Robert

esnesfp

Hello

Motherboard = And old Gigabyte
CPU Type AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3500+
2 g ram
80 g HD

2.2.4-RELEASE (amd64)
built on Sat Jul 25 19:57:37 CDT 2015
FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p15

Package installed and online = Squid3, File Manager , OpenVPN Client Export Utility

thx

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esnesfp

Hello

Ethernet card have to be Gigabit, i bought 2 tplink at 10$ each.

Also things to take into consideration for the motherboard, take one that has onboard video because yoou don't want to pay for a video card and for the energy that it consume because you don't need any its headless.

Motherboard should have at least two empty mini pci express slots for gigabit ethernet cards.

thx

zax123

@esnesfp:

Hello

Ethernet card have to be Gigabit, i bought 2 tplink at 10$ each.

Also things to take into consideration for the motherboard, take one that has onboard video because yoou don't want to pay for a video card and for the energy that it consume because you don't need any its headless.

Motherboard should have at least two empty mini pci express slots for gigabit ethernet cards.

thx

Cool thanks. Nothing too fancy then. Nice :)

I'll hunt around for a machine with similar specs. Appreciate you taking the time to write back!

Rob

singerie

My specs are pretty simple :

E8500 with 2 gigs of ram.

an SSD for the os, the cheapest one.

when running a speedtest, I have +- 38% cpu usage with bell gigabit. my usual speed is 932 or 933 mbit.

Also, I was wondering if i can share this how to on dslreports under the bell forum… i'm sure people would love this how to !

zax123

Absolutely share! :)

sibisties

My two cents…

For those having IGMP flooding issue, you should probably look into a switch that supports IGMP snooping. This feature will learn which port joined which multicast group and will forward packets properly. Of course the Home Hub has this feature.

Also I had the chance to analyze a Home Hub configuration file (don't ask me how I got this) and found out RIPv1/v2 is enabled on the WAN IPTV interface. Might be worth to look into this, as it would probably remove the need for static routes.

zax123

Would you be willing to share that configuration file? It could help to improve our setup. Thanks!

sibisties

There you go, here is a config file taken from a Sagemcom 2864. It was running on FTTN, but FTTH stuff is there too.

I also included the OpenRG Configuration Guide to help understand how this thing works.

cfg_2864.txt
openrg_configuration_guide.zip

zax123

Wow that's pretty complex. :) I don't know why I expected it to be easier to interpret… maybe there is an interpreter out there. I'm just wondering if I'm missing something in my pfSense config, but I'm not sure I'll be able to figure this all out.

Thanks though! :)

Bastion

Great topic ! Thanks to all posters for sharing.

All system working smoothly here since couple of days.
One wired pvr (VIP-2622)
One wired stb (VIP-2502)
One wireless transmitter (VAP-2500)
Two wireless stb (VIP-2502)

The igmpproxy is broken on 2.2.5 and had to be updated according to this post https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=93293.0
The igmpproxy version on 2.3 is up to date and works https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=102729.msg572837#msg572837

Regards,

zax123

Thanks so much for posting this!

I'll definitely wait till 2.3 then before upgrading. I'm at 2.2.4 right now and all is good.

I'm about to upgrade my box to a Jetway quad Celeron (just waiting on a Black Friday deal) because my little APU box can't handle my GB fiber. :) So I'll have to run 2.2.4 on the new box until they release 2.3. Any idea when that might be?

Harryrosen

Hi

I got everything working great, but for some reason I loose 1 channel after a couple days, I have the reboot my pfsense and it works fine again, any ideas why it's only 1 channel losing signal?

singerie

I have the same issue (with TLC).

zax123

Are you guys running pfSense 2.2.4 or 2.2.5? I heard there are bugs in igmproxy in 2.2.5…

Harryrosen

I am running 2.2.5

Can you downgrade to 2.2.4?

Bastion

I had same issue before updating the broken igmpproxy on 2.2.5, and had to update it according to :
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=93293.0n

The igmpproxy version on 2.3 is up to date and works flawlessly :
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=102729.msg572837#msg572837

Regards,

Harryrosen

Just updated to 0.1 and rebooted looks like it's working

how do I check if it was upgraded, I put the igmpproxy in the command line and it asked for the conf file.

under services it's running but just want to make sure it's now 0.1

thanks I am new to all this