Virgin Media Cable BB - router and separate wireless

silentphoenix · 1 Aug 2008 at 11:53

Heya!

I made the mistake of buying a Netgear DG834GT for hooking up to my virginmedia (ambit 256) modem.

Im wondering if I can get a cable router (ZyXel Prestige P-335 cable router - mnufacturer code 91-003-1560003) which has 1xWAN, 4XLAN, USB and use this to cnnect to my current DG834GT to get thins up and running... will this work?

Thanks for your time!

bledd · 1 Aug 2008 at 12:01

what are you trying to do?

don't know why you need two routers..

get the WRT54GL and put Tomato firmware on it, best combination

Darkman · 1 Aug 2008 at 13:14

As per bledd's post, what exactly are you trying to do?

virgin no longer registers the MAC address like NTL used to do, so you can change the router to the wireless one without having to go through the old one (sell that) if that's what you're asking.

silentphoenix · 1 Aug 2008 at 14:02

thanks fro the replies guys...

bledd. said:
what are you trying to do?

The idea was to see if I could use my DG834GT (which I bought not knowing it wouldn't work with my Virgin Connection - doh!) with a cheaper Cable Router (so the routing done by the cheap cable router, and the wireless by my current ADSL wireless modem router)... but I guess this can't be done.

Looks like the linksys wrt54gl is the way to go unless I get another ercommendation.

xb8browney · 1 Aug 2008 at 14:18

My Zyxel router reboots since I went from 2mb to 10mb when downloading at full speed it often reboots

ajf · 3 Aug 2008 at 01:04

Yes, you can use an ADSL wireless router just for wireless on the back of a cable router as I have done it.
Had an old non wireless cable router and used a BT Broadband ADSL wireless router through one of the LAN ports and just used the wireless part - basically just as an access point. Worked fine.

Now changed over to a tidier all in one solution.

As for MAC addresses, I think you still have to reboot the cable modem itself each time you change the attached MAC address.

Phemo · 3 Aug 2008 at 01:08

Correct, as ajf says, you can use an ADSL router simply as a switch/AP if you like. Just make sure you disable the DHCP server on it and assign it an IP address in the same subnet as your cable router and you'll be good to go - simply ignore the ADSL side of it and it'll be fine. However, aren't cable wireless routers dirt cheap anyway?

bledd · 4 Aug 2008 at 12:48

i'd sell whatever you've got now, and just get a WRT54GL and install tomato, you'll thank me

silentphoenix · 25 Aug 2008 at 16:44

Bought a WRT54GL-UK and have been using it for a few weeks now and been as solid as anything. I need to find some time and play around with the firmware tho...