Sky broadband on your own router

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Hi guys,

Just returned from a mate's who's been advised that he can't use his own router (latest netgear) with his Sky broadband package. He's moved house and the box Sky have given him is useless! The Netgear on the other hand is perfect...

Is there anything he can do apart from leave Sky :D
 
sam.wheale said:
Hi guys,

Just returned from a mate's who's been advised that he can't use his own router (latest netgear) with his Sky broadband package. He's moved house and the box Sky have given him is useless! The Netgear on the other hand is perfect...
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Useless in what way? If it's just the wireless side of things then that's easy to fix if you can live with two boxes.
 
bremen1874 said:
Useless in what way? If it's just the wireless side of things then that's easy to fix if you can live with two boxes.
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Yeah, it's mainly about the wireless... he's in an old house and the coverage isn't great. He's also only just spent £130 on the new kit :p
 
Just have the sky provides router set to do everything but te wireless and use the better router as a wireless access point, just turn off dhcp on the wireless point. Run a Ethernet cable between them.
 
I have managed to use another router other than Sky's with little problem. Used some funky online thing to grab the access name and password to my account with SKY and used them on my new router. Works fine now :D
 
Jaffa_Far said:
I have managed to use another router other than Sky's with little problem. Used some funky online thing to grab the access name and password to my account with SKY and used them on my new router. Works fine now :D
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Link? :)
 
Jaffa_Far said:
I have managed to use another router other than Sky's with little problem. Used some funky online thing to grab the access name and password to my account with SKY and used them on my new router. Works fine now :D
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How is Anytime + with it? assuming you spoofed the MAC addresses...
 
Jaffa_Far said:
I have managed to use another router other than Sky's with little problem. Used some funky online thing to grab the access name and password to my account with SKY and used them on my new router. Works fine now :D
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This will only work if you are connected by PPPoA. To get the details is simple and so is setting up the new router.

If you are connected by MER, and most new routers and provisions are, then you cannot currently connect without the Sky router. In theory the process should just involve spoofing the ADSL MAC address but for some reason no one has yet reported, as far as I can tell, that they have achieved it. Sky must have some hidden setting or hardware check or something that prevents us using our own router.

So as before just set up the good router as wireless and whatever else you want it for and just use the Sky router to make the connection.
 
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