Airtel router LAN DHCP greyed out ?

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demon_slayer

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I just started a adguard home instance for another home and thought I'll switch DNS for all devices at the router. The router is a Airtel provided router. I do remember playing around with this router to set a 192.168.3.xx lan network but when I tried to access the dhcp settings, they were all grayed out.

I've already tried
- restarting the router
- deleting static ip allocations

Looking for any ideas..
 
It's a shame they often limit functionality like that. For your AdGuard Home setup, if you can't change the router's DNS, perhaps setting up a custom DHCP server on a Raspberry Pi or another device on your network could be an alternative. It's more work, but gives you full control.
 
sunnyhere said:
It's a shame they often limit functionality like that. For your AdGuard Home setup, if you can't change the router's DNS, perhaps setting up a custom DHCP server on a Raspberry Pi or another device on your network could be an alternative. It's more work, but gives you full control.
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Is it disabled for you too ?

As I said, I do remember changing this before
 
Routers are locked down by airtel, especially newer ones now even more so.
Basic settings such as DHCP configuration too is locked down.

However it's possible to get them to enable bridge mode and use your own router to do the PPPoE dial-up (in case of line fiber)
and in case of AirFiber you can just switch to any other router of your choice and use DHCP for WAN settings.
 
Airtel has tried to limit more changes to its NOC team, who are a bunch of a**holes, this being the most polite of terms, for what they are.

Plus their technicians are as good as L1 sadak chap who only know to run by a script.

They decided they would not let Jio have more locked down devices - they wanted to be more idiotic.

Raise an SR to change the LAN IP range is what they asked, I said I will live with double NAT.
 
enthusiast29 said:
You'll live with double NAT regardless of having bridge mode or not.
Airtel and Jio both have CGNAT. WAN IP you get on the router is not a public IP.

Only if you switch to static IP is when you have freedom from double NAT.
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Mine has a static IP, free with business plan. They were unable to put in bridge mode. Unable to change from default of 192.168.1.1
 
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demon_slayer said:
I just started a adguard home instance for another home and thought I'll switch DNS for all devices at the router. The router is a Airtel provided router. I do remember playing around with this router to set a 192.168.3.xx lan network but when I tried to access the dhcp settings, they were all grayed out.

I've already tried
- restarting the router
- deleting static ip allocations

Looking for any ideas..
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Yes, that's normal with Airtel routers; they lock down DHCP settings. If it's greyed out, it's likely restricted by the firmware. You could try logging in with a different admin account if you haven’t already. However, chances are you’ll need to bridge the router and use your own or manually set DNS per device. I had to do the same to get AdGuard working properly.
 
I do remember setting a custom DNS on the router page earlier.
Is it still possible to get the admin panel with different account, how do I get access to one?
I need to add a device to a static ip address for the local network, should I create a ticket with Airtel?
 
demon_slayer said:
I've already tried
- restarting the router
- deleting static ip allocations
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Forget about that. You can't change any settings. It's all in the hands of airtel backend team, they use a protocol called tr069 to remotely control your router/modem.
enthusiast29 said:
However it's possible to get them to enable bridge mode and use your own router to do the PPPoE dial-up (in case of line fiber)
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Can u help me with this.. I had to go through a lot of hassle a few years back to do this.. and they had supposedly enabled it, but I have a few problems..

1. I only get speeds of upto 200 on my "secondary" router, I pay for 300 mbps
Now the problem is if I raise a complaint regarding the speed, they guy will come and enable the wireless band on the airtel device and the speeds on that band will go to 300, so he would just blame my router and leave :/
Now I know for a fact that the router isn't a problem as its a much better device (Tp link ax50 (ax3000) and tp link ax10(ax1500), I tried both) as compared to the shit that airtel provides.. What can I do?
Also when I had asked them to enable bridge mode, I was on 200 mbps plan, Is it possible that they had limited the lan port to that speed back then?, If yes, who can I contact to get this fixed because the local teams usually aren't trained for this bridge mode crap..

2. When connected to my "secondary" router, If I do a google search, it would pop up showing THIS, This mostly happens in incognito searches, Doesn't happen on any other wifi network or mobile data.. Do u have any idea regarding this?
enthusiast29 said:
You'll live with double NAT regardless of having bridge mode or not.
Airtel and Jio both have CGNAT. WAN IP you get on the router is not a public IP.
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Please explain
 
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