Hi guys, this is my first post here. I'm sorry if this is a repeat post but I did search the forum and did not find this information at my novice level.
Few days ago, AirTel fiber became available in my area and I migrated to it from the earlier copper. The speeds are much faster than copper and so far the connection has been without any issues.
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AirTel gave me a Huawei Echolife HG8145V5 modem/router which I'm told is very good but its features are not as great as the personal VDSL modem I was using earlier, the TP-Link TD-W9970.
I thought maybe I don't know how to use the Huawei and search the net for a users manual but I could not find one anywhere. Huawei told me that to qualify for downloading the manual I need to register with them. And after running through many Huawei hoops and email correspondences, I was told that my request for a PDF manual has been rejected because "The S/N or Contract number you provided belongs to Carrier BG, so it cannot be registered". I even contacted the AirTel people, including the sales guy and the technical support, and they don't have a users manual for this modem either, nor have any means of getting one.
Most of the internet links I found pointed to this forum so I registered here hoping someone would be able to help me out.
First if anyone has a manual for Huawei Echolife HG8145V5 in PDF, I'd really appreciate them posting a link to it here or sharing it from their Google drive.
Second, and this is the reason I need the manual in the first place, I need information on how to bridge the Huawei modem with the tp-link so that other than being a dumb gateway the Huawei is doing nothing and the whole ethernet/wifi operations and management is done through the tp-link TD-W9970. I have a fairly complex setup (for me at least) with quotas and permitted timings based on MAC addresses and I don't think the Huawei has that capability.
I'm not very technically qualified but I can follow clear instructions without problems.
Hopefully someone here will be able to help me out. Thank you for reading this really long post.
warm regards.
Few days ago, AirTel fiber became available in my area and I migrated to it from the earlier copper. The speeds are much faster than copper and so far the connection has been without any issues.
Source
AirTel gave me a Huawei Echolife HG8145V5 modem/router which I'm told is very good but its features are not as great as the personal VDSL modem I was using earlier, the TP-Link TD-W9970.
I thought maybe I don't know how to use the Huawei and search the net for a users manual but I could not find one anywhere. Huawei told me that to qualify for downloading the manual I need to register with them. And after running through many Huawei hoops and email correspondences, I was told that my request for a PDF manual has been rejected because "The S/N or Contract number you provided belongs to Carrier BG, so it cannot be registered". I even contacted the AirTel people, including the sales guy and the technical support, and they don't have a users manual for this modem either, nor have any means of getting one.
Most of the internet links I found pointed to this forum so I registered here hoping someone would be able to help me out.
First if anyone has a manual for Huawei Echolife HG8145V5 in PDF, I'd really appreciate them posting a link to it here or sharing it from their Google drive.
Second, and this is the reason I need the manual in the first place, I need information on how to bridge the Huawei modem with the tp-link so that other than being a dumb gateway the Huawei is doing nothing and the whole ethernet/wifi operations and management is done through the tp-link TD-W9970. I have a fairly complex setup (for me at least) with quotas and permitted timings based on MAC addresses and I don't think the Huawei has that capability.
I'm not very technically qualified but I can follow clear instructions without problems.
Hopefully someone here will be able to help me out. Thank you for reading this really long post.
warm regards.
