Using TP Link MESH XE75 with ee full fibre gigabit

[EB60]

Hello

I am just about to move to ee full fibre gigabit from Virginmedia. I take delivery of the Smart hub plus this week and the engineer is coming to install the full fibre cabling next Monday. Ours is a largeish Victorian house with a number of wi fi deadspots and so I’ve bought a Tp-link 3-node 6E mesh system (for future-proofing). 

My question is, given that I understand there is no modem-only mode for the Smart hub plus, is my best bet to turn off wireless, plug the first node into an ethernet port on the hub and go from there? 

[XRaySpeX]

@EB60: Yes or just connect the Mesh straight into the ONT if you don't want a digital landline. 

[EB60]

Thank you. 

[Manic_Marley]

Hi

Im thinking the same, how do you set up directly to the ONT as i think that way i would keep my current IP address's already set up on the DECO

[Manic_Marley]

Does any one have an easy to follow instructions or video as im currently looking at moving from Virgin to EE and like the others i have a DECO XE75 Pro Mesh that connects to Virgin hub thats on modem mode, i want to plus directly to the ONT box to hopefully i keep all my IP Address's for my smart home stuff that's running on Home Assistant.. Any guide very much appreciated

[XRaySpeX]

@Manic_Marley : Connect the DECO on its WAN port to the ONT by Ethernet & set up its WAN settings for PPPoE. In Using & Configuring a Third Party Router you'll find everything you need to set up your router incl. the BB PPPoE creds. which are now the same as BT's.

[naylor2006]

As @XRaySpeX  says its entirely possible.

As a Virgin customer using Modem Mode the WAN interface on the DECO will currently be using DHCP which pretty much configures all that part for you, so itll be this setting you need to change to PPPOE and enter the PPPOE credentials:

Username: bthomehub@btbroadband.com
Password: BT

One of the best things about maintaining your own router is that you can move from ISP to ISP without having to reconfigure any of the things youve spent time on configuring over the contract term.

You just need to be on the Deco's network and you can use the app to do it.