How to use your own router with O2 Broadband

[Mattsip]

Has anyone been successful connecting their own router to Home Access? Using a AG241 and can't connect, rang O2 and received the password, use settings listed here and on the o2 site but no luck. Seems like someone had a similar problem before but wasn't resolved: http://www.o2user.co.uk/forum/o2-bro...me-access.html

[PurpleAdmin]

How to set-up Belkin Router Vision N1

I purchased O2 standard with static IP address.

(1) Go to your router control panel by typing in the ip address 192.168.2.1 into your browser.
(2) When the router modems homepage appears do not use the Set-up Wizard.
O2 is not listed an ISP. I have to say for such a top of the range router O2 needs to call Belkin about this as many of their competitors are listed.
(3) Click "Internet WAN"
(4) Select "Dynamic/Fixed IP (1483 Bridged)
(5) Select for "IP Assigned by ISP" No if static IP or Yes is you have a dynamic IP address.
(6) enter for "IP Address" your static IP address or leave blank if you have opted for the dynamic IP.
(7) enter your supplied subnet mask. 255.255.248.0
(8) enter your default gateway IP address supplied to you with your welcome pack
(9) VPI = 0
(10) VCI = 101
(11) Click DNS settings and enter these :-
87.194.0.51
87.194.0.52
(12) Apply changes !!!!

O2 provide a username and password. Under no circumstances enter this into the router modem setup.

By the way compared to Demon Internet O2 ROCKS

[roadshowuk]

I am having a real problem connecting our Linksys WAG320n to our standard adsl2 o2 broadband.
I have used the settings in the earlier post, which replicate those o2 have on their site, but without success.
The only element which differs is that the WAG320n doesn't have an option to select rfc 1483 bridged, it has rfc 2648 bridged.
I have cloned the mac address of my O2 wireless box II on the Linksys router but this has not got me any further.

Any suggestions, I am tearing my hair out?

[Saturday]

You must have missed this in the first post:

Originally Posted by Saturday

Some routers may require you to select additional parameters such as Connectivity mode and Encapsulation. If so then select RFC1483 Bridged and ETHoA, IPoATM or IPoA.

According to Linksys the wag320n supports RFC 2364 PPPoA, RFC 2516 PPPoE, RFC 2684 Routed, IPoA, RFC 2684 Bridged and Bridged Mode Only.

So IPoA it is

[roadshowuk]

Well that's me screwed then. IPOA requires a static IP and O2 claim that with my package that is not possible. Pretty amazing since I have two lines and the other line is sat with a static IP hooked up to Demon quite happily.

Have cancelled O2 and will wait until our exchange has ADSL2+ enabled before looking again.

[Saturday]

In any event using IPoA is likely to be a fudge where the router doesn't allow you to simply specify no password/username or login required and let it default to the right connection. It might work, it might not. I'm pretty sure though that every modern ADSL modem/router will support IPoEoATM (which I think is essentially ETHoA) plus ADSL bridging as it's a worldwide and common standard, just not widely used in the UK. The trick of course is working out how to set it up.

Shame you felt you had to cancel with O2. I hope you're not too annoyed with them that you were unable to set up your own router with their service (I assume you weren't prepared to use theirs or buy one that is easily set up?).

Also, not quite sure by "will wait until our exchange has ADSL2+ enabled before looking again"? O2 LLU uses ADSL2+.

Anyway, hope you get sorted one day.

[Adam]

I used the settings you posted with a Belkin F5D-8636-4 V2 and couldn't get it to work. My existing 02 Wireless Box II works, but its wireless signal is poor, hence the replacement. I do not have a Static IP.

I also spoofed the MAC Address of the O2 Wireless Box II but couldn't get it to work, any advice?

PS: I used RFC 1483 Bridging and LLC encapsulation as you set out.

[Saturday]

Hard to say without more info:

• what lights are showing on the router?
• what's showing in the router connection details?
• what's showing in Windows networking (assuming you're Windows)?

[Adam]

I returned the router to the shop and purchased a Netgear DGNB2100 instead.

I suspected that the Belkin may have been faulty

The DGNB2100 worked first time.

Cheers,

Adam

[o2k]

This is how to get the tenda w548d to work. the bits in "" are the titles of the wizard pages.

"wizard"

VPI 0
VCI 101

"connection type"

MAC Encapsulated Routing (MER)
LLC/SNAP-BRIDGING

"wan ip setting"

obtain an ip auto
obtain default gateway auto
obtain dns auto

"settings backup"

enable nat y
enable firewall y
enable igmp multicast n
enable wan service y
service name mer_0_101


then save and reboot. plug the adsl2+ lead in and wait. the adsl will connect but o2 authentication may take a while, I was fiddling around for a couple of hours. the mac spoofing on the tenda doe NOT work.

I just entered this via the w548d