Fibrehoods with different data accounts

[r4nd0m]

Greetings.

My apologies if this has been posted before (I did do a forum search).

I'm on the 100 Mbps / 125GB package with iConnect.

I also have another 'fibre' data account with a different provider that I would like to use.

a) I've tried the other account and can't authenticate with the radius server. Even though it's reporting a bad user/pass error, I can confirm I'm not reaching the remote radius server of the second ISP.

b) The technician who set-up my router informed me that fibrehoods 'lock' the line to the radius server of the ISP you've signed up with. Looking at my username for iConnect, i can see no domain mentioned (e.g @iconnectblahblah), so I'm thinking this is true.

Based on the above, has anyone successfully used a second account on their fibrehoods/vumatel line?

I've seen success with other fibre providers mentioned on the forum, but not fibrehoods...

Many thanks in advance!

 

[PBCool]

So on the Telkom/Openserve network they use realm authentication, so basically depending on the realm it will pass the authentication onto the respective ISP's radius and authenticate. On fibrehoods it's a static layer2 config, so if you are using iConnect then you wouldn't be able to use another ISPs network/account. Fibrehoods would need to switch you over to the respective ISPs network. Vumatel works in a similar way but is also layer3 so your IP would just change to the new ISPs network, it's not based on radius/layer2.

 

[r4nd0m]

So on the Telkom/Openserve network they use realm authentication, so basically depending on the realm it will pass the authentication onto the respective ISP's radius and authenticate. On fibrehoods it's a static layer2 config, so if you are using iConnect then you wouldn't be able to use another ISPs network/account. Fibrehoods would need to switch you over to the respective ISPs network. Vumatel works in a similar way but is also layer3 so your IP would just change to the new ISPs network, it's not based on radius/layer2.

Thank you so much for this response. I completely understand now.