Openreach modem

I’m having.a second FTTC line installed at my property.

Do openreach still provide the modems with a new line?

Zen are proving a fritzbox but I’m not going to use that as I will be using my Draytek for load balancing

Openreach stopped supplying their modems many years ago so you will have to get a second hand one or a suitable modem/router that can be configured as a stand alone modem aka bridge mode. I use an Openreach Huawei HG612 3B it's old but still works perfectly well. I also have as a spare a Zyxel VMG 8924-B10A modem/router which also works well as a modem.

Edited by Realalemadrid (Sun 26-Nov-23 08:18:15)

Thanks for that I shall grab a second hand one

In reply to a post by Ripley:

Zen are proving a fritzbox but I’m not going to use that as I will be using my Draytek for load balancing

You can (sort of!) use the FRITZ!Box in "modem mode"... You should enable PPPoE passthrough, and then deliberately mis-configure the WAN on the FRITZ!Box (as you won't be able to use your PPPoE credentials twice simultaneously). This worked well for me up until earlier in the year when a local altnet arrived with full fibre.

Edited by behuk (Sun 26-Nov-23 13:37:59)

In reply to a post by behuk:

You can (sort of!) use the FRITZ!Box in "modem mode"...

or just flash it with OpenWRT and then you can configure it as needed