Can i use a home hub as modem only?

rudeboymcc · 19 Oct 2009 at 11:24

Hi. I've got a BT home hub v2 and it's very unreliable with its wireless. I want to replace it with a Netgear WGR614L but that doesn't have an ADSL modem.

Can i use the home hub as just a modem? Reason i ask is there's no "Modem only" option like other routers i've seen. but if I disable dhcp and make the netgear's ip address as DMZ then surely it will work perfectly? (i.e. with only one NAT on the network and the netgear seeing straight to WAN)

unless anyone knows any adsl wireless routers that work with tomato or dd-wrt that i can find in stores? most seem to be very old routers that are hard to find :-(

Azuse05 · 19 Oct 2009 at 11:35

Wrt54gl is the most common/cheapest, Asus WL-500g Premium has a better cpu & double the ram (32m) of the wrt, but it costs more and isn't available as widely. Also some of the early ones only had 16mb of ram enabled, something to look out for, but its still faster and prefered to a wrt. the teddy bear mod enables the usb ports.

Not got a clue about home hubs though.

Edit: There's already been some talk of porting tomato to the rt-n16 but that'll probably be a way off, asus still hasn't released them in the uk

marv · 19 Oct 2009 at 11:38

u could allways try the dmz trick if it has it.

rudeboymcc · 19 Oct 2009 at 11:55

The linksys WRT54GL is good i have one, but it doesn't have a modem.

Do all the WRT54GL s from overclockers work with Tomato? or should I ring them up and make sure?

Azuse05 · 19 Oct 2009 at 12:01

The gl only has 2 versions (1 & 1.1) both of which run tomato, but the WL-500g Premium is a more powerful router. If you're only going to have afew machines attached a gl will be fine.

Just realised you originally said adsl, routers running tomato/dd-wrt are just that, routers, they don't contain modems.

rudeboymcc · 19 Oct 2009 at 13:13

cool, just ordered a pair and will let you know how I go!

rudeboymcc · 21 Oct 2009 at 20:55

Ok so the linksys is working fine now with the homehub as a modem.

DHCP is done by the linksys. If i want to use the homehub as a wireless access point is that a good idea?

I think it will work if I just enable it, but will it be very unreliable as any connection will have to go through the homehub wireless, up to the linksys for nat and then down to the homehub for broadband.
or would this not be an issue?