Andrew. You can also buy them from the BT Shop £129 for the Hub £35 for the AC dongle. But I bet Ebay was cheaper.

They also sell the HomeHub3 that is locked to BT...so being in the shop was not a clear sign

I have been looking at VDSL routers on Ebuyer but most of them the wan port is a RJ45 I assume this is not what I am after?

Also if I do manage to get hold of one does one know what I need to put in the setup to get it to connect to the isp since I cannot access the BT fibre box so I have no idea of the setup?

You are correct, an RJ45 WAN port is not what you want if after an all in one.

The list of devices mentioned in this thread are the best bet.

In terms of setup - for the devices people are mentioning here there will be others with it and have shared the settings so you don't have to experiment too much.

ok thanks. Me and my business partner are considering the Draytek model as we would like to setup a site to site VPN between our places but we had several very bad experiences recently with the Draytek 2830N can anyone vouch for the 2860 is it good? Good VPN throughput?

I thought most VDSL modem/routers could double up as a standalone router so they have a configurable WAN port. My Billion 8200N can.

Thanks for the information I am currently awaiting pricing on the Draytek Vigor 2850 and 2860 to compare but we will be going with one of these.

Does anyone have the settings required to get it connected to BT Infinity through Plusnet?

Thanks,
Max

In reply to a post by maximusi:

Does anyone have the settings required to get it connected to BT Infinity through Plusnet?

VLAN 101 in PTM mode, with PPPoE and your PlusNet user name and password.

Make sure whatever you buy has vectoring capable firmware (or will shortly get a vectoring capable firmware upgrade), as there's a risk Openreach will disable ports that don't participate correctly in vectoring if they roll out vectoring on a cabinet.

Edited by deleted (Fri 15-Nov-13 16:14:57)

Do you know if the two Drayteks have that?

Ok I have 1 x Draytek 2860 and 1 x Draytek 2860N on order should arrive in a couple of days. Will post results.