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FTTC router optional?
02-07-2012 9:01 PM
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Is the router optional? There's nothing wrong with my current router and I notice there's another "upon cancellation" fee been applied because of it and the £4.99 delivery
EDIT: I should mention that the router model is a Thomson TG582n
Re: Router optional?
02-07-2012 9:08 PM
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jelv (a.k.a Spoon Whittler) Why I have left Plusnet (warning: long post!) Broadband: Andrews & Arnold Home::1 (FTTC 80/20) Line rental: Pulse 8 Home Line Rental (£14.40/month) Mobile: iD mobile (£4/month) |
Re: Router optional?
02-07-2012 10:20 PM
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Re: Router optional?
02-07-2012 10:25 PM
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I don't believe you can configure an old Netgear to do that.
jelv (a.k.a Spoon Whittler) Why I have left Plusnet (warning: long post!) Broadband: Andrews & Arnold Home::1 (FTTC 80/20) Line rental: Pulse 8 Home Line Rental (£14.40/month) Mobile: iD mobile (£4/month) |
Re: Router optional?
02-07-2012 10:38 PM
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At any given moment in the universe many things happen. Coincidence is a matter of how close these events are in space, time and relationship.
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Re: Router optional?
02-07-2012 11:09 PM
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In the mean time could anyone comment as to whether I could return this router to plusnet if I found it wasn't required?
Re: Router optional?
02-07-2012 11:18 PM
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jelv (a.k.a Spoon Whittler) Why I have left Plusnet (warning: long post!) Broadband: Andrews & Arnold Home::1 (FTTC 80/20) Line rental: Pulse 8 Home Line Rental (£14.40/month) Mobile: iD mobile (£4/month) |
Re: Router optional?
02-07-2012 11:24 PM
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And yes still the problem of NAT.
Re: Router optional?
02-07-2012 11:28 PM
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Re: Router optional?
02-07-2012 11:43 PM
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Perhaps the FTTC version of the TG582n plusnet have sent may just have updated FW, as I suppose the process of updating FW might be over-complicated for the average user.
Re: FTTC router optional?
03-07-2012 9:56 AM
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We have removed the link and uploaded a more recent firmware from early June instead of late May. This can be found here.
The older one is absolutely fine for those using it, the single difference is that the new link as completed Plusnet and Technicolors quality control process, tough no changes took place between them.
The process to flash a router is quite simple, though is only available to windows users. Instructions can be found here which is applicable to the TG582n as well.
It's so simple we managed to flash over a hundred of them last week in a day
Re: FTTC router optional?
03-07-2012 11:08 AM
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Could you confirm then that by flashing my old TG582n, the router will work fine as an Wireless access point for FTTC?
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03-07-2012 11:13 AM
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You can use it as a wireless access point only if you need that to be in a different place to your router (you then have BT modem -> Router -> WAP), but that is a totally different set of instructions.
jelv (a.k.a Spoon Whittler) Why I have left Plusnet (warning: long post!) Broadband: Andrews & Arnold Home::1 (FTTC 80/20) Line rental: Pulse 8 Home Line Rental (£14.40/month) Mobile: iD mobile (£4/month) |
Re: FTTC router optional?
03-07-2012 1:29 PM
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If you plan to use a TG582n as a wireless access point (which is something I do, but consistent signal rather than speed), I would recommend that you make a router with the ADSL firmware as the WAP.
It depends if you need to use the Ethernet ports as well, to extend the number of available ports you have available. If you don't need more Ethernet ports, it doesn't matter which firmware you use.
Basic considerations for use as a WAP.
1: You need to change the routers IP address, so not to let it conflict with another Technicolor in your network.
2: You need to disable DHCP, so you only have a single device performing this function
Doing this will essentially mean the unit is a wireless bridge in infrastructure mode, with your fiber router performing the DHCP functions.
Re: FTTC router optional?
03-07-2012 7:39 PM
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