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***Question specifically aimed at UK users but input from our international friends is welcome***

Currently, I have my ISP supplied DSL router set to forward all traffic to my B3 in the DMZ and it has the firewall, wifi and DHCP disabled. The router is, therefore, essentially just a modem and the B3 does all the heavy lifting.


I am having Sky fibre broadband (I.e. BT Infinity sold wholesale) installed at the end of the month and just assumed I could carry on with this set up. However, it seems that I am going to have a modem installed by the Openreach engineer and that is to be connected to a router supplied by the ISP so I am having to replace one box with two. From what I've read, the router is required to establish the connection (so I'm not sure what the modem actually does) da I can't just leave it out of the equation. I would still like to disable all the features on it though.

Does anyone have experience of using the B2/3 on an FTTC connection?

Do you know if you can change the settings of the router or is it completely administered by the isp? I had a similar setup once with a adsl modem/router in which I could not change anything at all. Kinda drove me mad...

/Daniel

Yeah, not sure. Couldn't find anything definitive. The username and password for the current DSL router is well documented.

On a side note, it appears their own router is required as it uses a custom DHCP client that sends information expected by their DHCP server that most clients don't send. DD-WRT and a couple of others are beginning to support it though.

Found a working solution. Posted in Howtos.