topic Re: opted to use my old Talk Talk router in Broadband

opted to use my old Talk Talk router

ricci1003 — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 12:47:31 GMT

I'm a new customer. who opted to use my old Talk Talk router. How do I connect to the WiFi using this old router?

Re: opted to use my old Talk Talk router

MattyC — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 13:44:34 GMT

I'm not certain on the router that TalkTalk use these days, but these details will be likely to be needed at some point.

Let me know if you want us to dispatch a router at any point and we'll arrange that for you as if it was part of the signup.

Re: opted to use my old Talk Talk router

pvmb — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 12:11:54 GMT

Should it not just work with the original TalkTalk SSID and password Key?

What router is it?

Re: opted to use my old Talk Talk router

MatthewWheeler — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 12:17:00 GMT

@pvmb Whilst they may be able to connect to the router via wireless unless they can update the connection details in the router they won't be able to get online.

Re: opted to use my old Talk Talk router

pvmb — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 14:09:08 GMT

...Obviously. But you can use a TalkTalk router, I have done so myself recently using my old DSL-2680 router.

I found in that case, on a then noisy line, that it performed less well than my PN TG582n. It dropped about 2000kbps on download. Then again, I may not have had the exact PN settings and I do remember in the past, when the line was OK I originally got ~17Mbps using it with TalkTalk. But then, I used to get ~17Mbps when I started with Plusnet...

Must give it a whirl again, now that the line faults have been cleared.

Re: opted to use my old Talk Talk router

Pk9 — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 21:24:45 GMT

You can update the router settings if you have it connected by cable, this way if WiFi drops you're not stuck.

Another point is you may be able to disable TR-069 within talktalks settings as PluNet's own router has the port 7547 is wide open to the external internet..

Look for iot scanner bullguard.

Re: opted to use my old Talk Talk router

Pk9 — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 16:28:05 GMT

You should be able to disable remote management too this closing a port.

The connection settings for wireless are on the back of the router.

Re: opted to use my old Talk Talk router

ricci1003 — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 11:38:59 GMT

Thanks for your help. I decided to order the free Plusnet one. A friend told me it would be wasting time because Talk Talk routers are locked to Talk Talk. The new one arrived and got set up on Thurs, but there won't be Internet before Tues. There's been a problem transfering the old number.
Regards,

Moderator's note by Dick (Strat) Duplicate and surplus posts removed.

Re: opted to use my old Talk Talk router

MattyC — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 12:20:15 GMT

Apologies for the delay in the order. It looks like the phone side of your order has finally completed, so the broadband should follow shortly.

Matty

Re: opted to use my old Talk Talk router

Pk9 — Sat, 19 Nov 2016 14:28:50 GMT

Not locked if you can change the password and user name on the router to Plusnet's. Mine worked.