Using alternative router/modem on SKY ADSL

Kimi · 19 Jun 2015 at 10:27

Just moved house and im looking to replace my SKY SR102 with my own modem that i had at my old house. It works out but i need to use works VPN router.

The ideal solution would be to be able to put the Sky router into modem only mode but i cant seem to find a way to do this.

Sky won’t give me the username or pass for the SR102 so i managed to extract it but when i put the details in to the old modem it won’t give me internets!

Cant seem to find any guides on the net for this and i was wondering if any of you have switched out your Sky routers for an alternative?

paradigm · 19 Jun 2015 at 10:42

Colleague at work migrated his over to a Cisco 1801. The key I believe was the dhcp client identifier, options 60 and 61 I think.

MER is a pita.

Kimi · 19 Jun 2015 at 11:35

Its really confusing, option 61 gives me the user i think (my mac address), but option 60 doesn't seem to have anything that looks like a pass.

Why do they have to be so difficult!

paradigm · 19 Jun 2015 at 11:41

I believe he ended up essentially using a "thowing star" cable and wiresharking both the incoming and outgoing handshake packets.

Kimi · 19 Jun 2015 at 11:57

hmm. Doing a bit of sharking i seem to have both user and pass but still no magical internets

changed this, but its basicly giving this:

d03e5f84g3s8@skydsl|a3hey98f

so user should be : d03e5f84g3s8
and pass should be: a3hey98f

Is there any other secret settings that SKY use to make things difficult?

Khazzer · 19 Jun 2015 at 13:01

I have Sky Fibre Unlimited and use my old BT VDSL modem with my Asus RT-N66U running Merlin firmware.
To do this the username and password are entered as the full string in the Manual Client ID field.
Apparently Sky uses MER, not PPPoE for authentication.

MissChief · 19 Jun 2015 at 18:34

Username includes the @skydsl bit I think?

FatRakoon · 4 Jul 2015 at 18:54

I used a prog called Wireshark to rip my username and password.

I plonked it into my Asus Router and its perfect.

I have, just in case, for future options, also gone through all my modem routers, putting in the user/pass and they have all connected and given my access to the web just fine.

I have been using my Asus for several months now without a single hiccup.

I think that its more likely that you did not get your details correctly when you ripped them from the sky router.