@MR.S @Clive_A Thanks both for your support, ideas, and encouragement. Because I'd been assured repeatedly that MAC address cloning wasn't required, and because I'd powered down and hard reset the...

@MR.S hi. That's how you set the WAN VLAN on Asus. It is a bit odd. You can't do it that way on the TP-Link. You can't set the WAN 1 port to be the IPTV port. You can set one of the other ports to be...

@MR.S I can indeed show an Asus XT8 screenshot

@MR.S thanks. I'm increasingly coming to the conclusion that the problem lies "between keyboard and chair". It's not like I'm a novice at this - I've configured loads of routers and networks in my...

@Clive_A I know. Everything rebooted - multiple times.

@Clive_A Thanks. It's odd. My Asus router works. Previously a pfsense device has worked. No idea what's going on. I'm in touch with my ISP