Use w8960n as fibre router?

Hi i'm getting sky fibre installed on wed

and i was wondering if i could use one of the w8960n lan port as a wan port?

no

Had a search

http://www.tp-link.com/en/article/?id=344

Looks like i can

No thanks to you

Edited by epyon (Mon 07-May-12 02:26:15)

No you can't.

That router does not support Sky's fibre service. You need a MER router, that one only does PPPoE

7800n has a beta firmware out for sky mer

So supports BT but not sky?

No thanks billions are garbage in my exp

7800n is prob best adsl router on market imo

I'll 2nd that, the 7800n is the best router that I've used (I've used around 15), AAISP gave me one but I had to send it back when I left, If I go for sky fibre (still deciding) I'm going to buy one.

While ive heard this many times i still take the draytek 2380 over it

Though since i cant reused this router any suggestions ?

In reply to a post by epyon:

While ive heard this many times i still take the draytek 2380 over it
Though since i cant reused this router any suggestions ?

I'd like to join Sky FTTC but the MER requirement is a big pain.

skyuser.co.uk has quite a long thread, where the BIllion has been shown to work with Sky's MER system on ADSL, but nobody has yet tried it on FTTC.

I'd like to use a Draytek too, but unfortunately it seems Sky's network doesn't work with PPPoE over the fibre modem, instead you have to use MPoA similar to BE/O2 and then the DHCP client (dhcpc) is modified to send an obscure request option with the sky userid/password inside.

Grr.

there are also bringing out new firmware for sky fttc

http://www.billion.uk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=382

In reply to a post by Stanman_24:

there are also bringing out new firmware for sky fttc

Good news, hopefully simple given they've made it work on ADSL/ADSL2+

Quote from the 8960N manual.....
"Default Gateway IP address should be specified since MER Interface is selected when you
select the Enable automatic Assigned Default Gateway check box."

Guess i'll give it a try tonight then.