Comments on: How to Use a PLDT Router as an Access Point

By: Jeff Dunn

Jeff Dunn — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 06:39:01 +0000

Actually if you are using a prepaid pldt home wifi router, all you have to do is make sure the IP address is the same as the pldt home fiber HG6245D model. Use the same SSID and password as the the home fibr one. And connect the ethernet cable to matching lan ports on both routers. Done deal real simple. You will have to use a computer to access the pldt prepaid home wifi to change this to match. It is already set AP Isolation disabled by default and just turn off DHCP server. (You dont have two DHCP seevers on one network.) Thats it real simple not complicated.
If you dont know the pldt home fibr info just type 192.168.1.1 enter the default username and password you may have already changed, but if not just user admin password 1234. Then you change the info to what you want as far as user and password. Then make sure prepaid router is the same SSID and IP Address and Password. Turn off DHCP server on prepaid router and then just connect both routers via ethernet cable and done. You may have to reboot both routers to communicate to each other. Ethernet is not plug and play like usb. There you go real simple. Enjoy

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By: Joseph Timbol

Joseph Timbol — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 23:36:08 +0000

In reply to Steve. This worked perfectly Steve. I wonder if you already have solved the config not going back when router is turned off? Thank you very much

By: claren

claren — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 15:25:22 +0000

In reply to Steve. do you have video tutorial on this?

By: Evans

Evans — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:07:31 +0000

Thank you Steve! All good here!

By: Damien

Damien — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 15:49:38 +0000

hello what if we don’t have a computer, just the primary router and the pldt router? I’m confused on what IP address to input. Do I just make them the same settings and all?

By: Raven

Raven — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 12:36:18 +0000

In reply to Steve. Hey, I rarely comment on blogs but thanks @Steve for this comment. Was able to make it work! :)

By: Aung Ko

Aung Ko — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 15:53:37 +0000

In reply to Steve. Thank you so much for your help with detail. I can only solve with your solution.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 09:14:26 +0000

I’ve done this but still doesn’t have internet connection. Sobrang hirap gawing secondary router ng PLDT ONU router pag PLDT ONU router din yung main router mo. Haist! Any help please.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 07:55:57 +0000

In reply to robert.

@Robert
If I may say so, I think this article is incomplete. Also has some fundamental flaws in the design.
First, there should never be two DHCP servers on the same network…
Second, there’s no instruction on how to disable the default AP isolation of the PLDT router.
Third, a PLDT ONU router (Model AN5506-04) has a fiber WAN port. That means most people won’t know what to do with the WAN port. Therefore the WAN port won’t be used. IE: No need for a gateway IP, DNS IP and all that info etc,….
May I suggest / help?…
– Log in to the your primary router and get the IP. Let’s say it’s 192.168.1.1 (255.255.255.0) Set the PLDT router to an IP that is on the primary router’s network. So, set the IP (static IP) of the PLDT router to 192.168.1.2 (255.255.255.0) Then disable the DHCP server on the PLDT router. Write down the IP info of the PLDT router if it’s set differently than above.
Connect the two routers with a cat6 ethernet cable. The cable should go from one of the LAN ports on the primary router (not the WAN port) to another LAN port on the PLDT router.
Connect a computer with an ethernet cable to the primary router and ping the primary router. When the computer is connected (via cable) to the primary router, the DHCP server running on the primary router will hand out an IP to the computer let’s say it’s 192.168.1.3. The computer should be able to ping the primary router now as well as the PLDT router, so ping .1.1, .1.2 as well as itself .1.3
Disable AP isolation on the PLDT router:
You’ll need a Telnet client installed – here’s how to set one up on Mac or on Windows.

First you have to enable the Telnet interface on your PLDT box.
Go to http://192.168.1.1/fh (bookmark it) and log in with the following details:
Administrator: f~i!b@e#r$h%o^m*esuperadmin (make sure the screen prompt says ‘Administrator’ NOT ‘Username’)
Password: s(f)u_h+g|u (or whatever your PLDT’s password is)
For older firmware versions, a different superadmin username and password may apply
Once logged in, select ‘Debug Switch’ on the sidebar menu
Enable the Telnet switch and click Apply
Log out
Open a terminal window or command prompt
telnet 192.168.1.1 and use gpon as the login and as the password
When it says ‘User’, type enable and press Enter, then enter gpon again as the password
Type cd switch and press Enter
Type control port_fw_eligiblity_switch disable and press Enter (no that’s not a typo in the word eligiblity!)
Done. Close the command prompt window.
Note: default action on PLDT routers is to re-enable AP isolation if the power is turned off on the PLDT router. I haven’t found out how to reverse that yet. So if it powers off, you’ll have to telnet into the PLDT router and do the disabling procedure above again. Maybe use a UPS to make sure the router is never turned off?
Also, if you ever need to log back into the PLDT router, it will have to be with a computer that is on the same network as the PLDT router. That’s why the PLDT router’s IP should be known. If you forget it you’ll have to reset the PLDT router to access it again.
Once AP isolation is disabled make sure that the 2.4ghz and 5ghz radios in the PLDT router are turned on. Then connect your wireless printer or wireless clients. They will be able to get an IP from the primary router.
You can also use the USB flash drive ports on the back of the PLDT router as well as the built in FTP and Samba (network storage) services on the PLDT router.
Enjoy!