Possible to change UPC Router?

lar77

Just ordered broadband and telephone from UPC but I'd like to change the router to an N one (Linksys WRT610N http://www.linksysbycisco.com/EU/en/products/WRT610N ) so I've a bigger range wireless network. Is it possible / easy to turn off the router part of the modem/router UPC give you and plug in another router? I asked UPC to just give me a modem but that doesn't seem to be an option.

I'd just buy a new modem too but the UPC supplied one has a socket for the phone on the back too.

Thanks for any help.

Lar.

lensman

lar77 wrote: »

Just ordered broadband and telephone from UPC but I'd like to change the router to an N one (Linksys WRT610N http://www.linksysbycisco.com/EU/en/products/WRT610N ) so I've a bigger range wireless network. Is it possible / easy to turn off the router part of the modem/router UPC give you and plug in another router? I asked UPC to just give me a modem but that doesn't seem to be an option.

I'd just buy a new modem too but the UPC supplied one has a socket for the phone on the back too.

Thanks for any help.

Lar.

yes you can use your own router, I use a Dlink wireless N router connected to the UPC modem,..just swap the supplied router for yours & dont forget to setup the security options on the new router incl wep or even better wpa access key.

lar77

lensman wrote: »

yes you can use your own router, I use a Dlink wireless N router connected to the UPC modem,..just swap the supplied router for yours & dont forget to setup the security options on the new router incl wep or even better wpa access key.

Thanks for the reply. Are you using the supplied UPC (think it's a Cisco) modem/router combo? Or just the old modem they used to give out?

lensman

lar77 wrote: »

Thanks for the reply. Are you using the supplied UPC (think it's a Cisco) modem/router combo? Or just the old modem they used to give out?

I'm using the UPC supplied "scientific atlanta" modem , never had their router as my own was better then the one they were suppling.

lar77

lensman wrote: »

I'm using the UPC supplied "scientific atlanta" modem , never had their router as my own was better then the one they were suppling.

The problem is that they don't give out just modems anymore, they give you a combo modem/router which has the phone plug on it for their phone service.

Alun

Lots on this over on the Broadband forum. With the latest version of the firmware on the UPC supplied router you can now set it to Bridged Mode and thus use it effectively as a cable modem with any attached wireless router. You'd obviously also turn off the wireless portion of the UPC device too.

lensman

lar77 wrote: »

The problem is that they don't give out just modems anymore, they give you a combo modem/router which has the phone plug on it for their phone service.

Your forgetting the fact that UPC & other service providers do things that suit themselves & the shareholders not the customer, your stuck with the modem/router combo because of it's mac address which is authorized for access to their server,..not an insurmountable problem but thats as far as I'll go with that one,..

Mister Gooey

You can disable the wireless functions of the router (or use it as a "wired" bridge) and use it as a modem and then connect to your own router. I have my UPC modem/router connected to a Linksys WRT610n and it has been perfect. Lots more of this in the broadband forum.

lar77

Thanks for all your replies, very helpful.

I'll look in the broadband forum.