Has anyone else's activation process been awful?

[#1]

@Tpot1  I believe this is a Nokia ONT

Yes, I'm familiar with that, I have one.

AFAIK if the router is correctly connected to the ONT then the LAN light on the ONT should be ON , is that not the case ?

There MAY still not be an internet connection if, as suggested, there is fault with the circuit build but I wouldn't expect the Hub 2 to be trying to revert to a DSL connection and thus flashing orange ?

[#2]

@MisterW 

but I wouldn't expect the Hub 2 to be trying to revert to a DSL connection and thus flashing orange

Wouldn't it flash Orange if it doesn't detect either a DSL signal or a ethernet connection?

The Home >Status page might give a clue on what it last detected broadband connection was

Connection type: Fibre broadband (VDSL) or Connection type: External (FTTX)

With a Hub One using a WAN connection I would see a flashing 'b' light  with no ethernet connection, a solid Orange light with a ethernet connection, Blue with an established PPPoE connection, I would expect the Hub two to behave in much the same way.

[#3]

@Dan_the_Van 

Wouldn't it flash Orange if it doesn't detect either a DSL signal or a ethernet connection?

yes, but if connected correctly to the ONT then it would see an ethernet connection and show solid orange 

[#4]

@MisterW 

yes, unless I miss read the thread both the ONT LAN port is not showing a connection and it is a flashing orange Hub Two light.

EDIT: like the Hub One the default might be VDSL and the POST will determine its connection mode, as the Hub one does.

[#5]

Pretty sure the default is WAN. With the WAN  port it can determine immediately whether there's a physical connection or not. A physical connection on the DSL.port will take an indeterminate time to sync. So if there's a physical WAN connection it should never go near the DSL

Whilst I don't use a hub 2 in anger , I do have one and I try and keep it up to date. Rather than disconnect my main router to connect the hub, I run a Pppoe server on a Linux box. I connect the hub to that and then it gets an internet connection via that. I'm pretty sure that as soon as I connect the WAN port to the Linux box it stops trying the DSL and makes the PPPoE via the WAN port

[#6]

Maybe,  but I see the same behaviour with the Hub One with the PPPoE server I run, as soon as the POST has finished it connects the light goes Orange and almost immediately goes Blue after authentication has completed. 

The DSL sync time on power up from what I can see takes up to 2 minutes regardless of the modem/router being used, maybe the PPPoE handshake is slow to sync due to the speed of the connection.

For my Hub Two on a DSL drop it remembers the last active connection .

09:54:57, 03 Feb. DSL Link Up: Down Rate=79999kbps, Up Rate=16289kbps; SNR Margin Down=5.3dB, Up=6.0dB

09:54:49, 03 Feb. WAN Auto-sensing detected port DSL WAN

09:54:14, 03 Feb. WAN Auto-sensing last connection port: DSL WAN

00:00:00, 01 Oct. WAN Auto-sensing last connection port: DSL WAN

Maybe you'd like to factory default you Hub Two to see what the default connection is, I believe it to be DSL.

[#7]

@Dan_the_Van  yes I'll try it when I'm at home but I'm on holiday at the moment. My hub 2 will never have seen a dsl connection though and it never will I'm afraid.

[#8]

@MisterW 

hopefully my hub two will not be using a DSL connection much longer.

From what I recall a factor default takes it to a DSL connection, I am happy to be proved wrong.

Enjoy your holiday