Compatability.

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Is a smart telecom router compatible with NTL/UPC?

My girlfriend is getting b.band/phone installed on saturday and they said if she took the dearer package then the router would be free.

But she has smart at the moment and the router is a Speedtouch thomson 842 F76.

Im not too well up on this but she dosent need the bigger package for broadband just to get the new router, so is this compatible or what kinda of router should she buy?

Thanks.

bk

Normally you can make a ADSL wireless router work as a wireless router for NTL, however I'm not 100% sure about the Smart router as it is typically locked down, but no harm in trying.

First turn off dhcp in the smart router, you just want it to bridge the NTL connection and attach the ethernet out from the NTL to one of the ethernet ports on the smart router.

If it doesn't work they are plenty of cheap wireless broadband routers that you can get:

http://www.komplett.ie/k/kl.aspx?bn=10282

watty

It won't route, only at as WiFi.

YOu need an ethernet or cable/dsl Router, NOT a router with DSL modem built in.

You connect the 5th special ethernet port to UPC/NTL modem. A normal DSL modem/Router hhas not physically got this port externally, only the routed switch ports.

bk

watty wrote: »

You connect the 5th special ethernet port to UPC/NTL modem. A normal DSL modem/Router hhas not physically got this port externally, only the routed switch ports.

However often you can get an ADSL router to act as a wifi access point, with the NTL modem acting as the DHCP server.

zilog_jones

I'm not sure if that's a very common option. With mine it can either be a modem+router or just a modem, and that's with modded firmware (Netgear DG834GT, would not recommend as it's ancient by today's standards)

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Thanks for the replies guys.

She just went with the NTL router, saving herself and me hassle.