[Gllug] Sharing NTL broadband using weedless router

[Chris Bell]

On Mon 26 Apr, Benjamin Edwards wrote:
> Where I have moved to someone in the house has NTL and they wish to
> share the connection.  I have a NETGEAR weedless router/ADSL modem. 
> 
> So I figure connect the NTL Broadband modem thingy to the weedless
> router and disable the modem bit of my router.  Has anyone tried this. I
> am not exactly sure how to do this because I have no experience of cable
> modems (only ADSL).  I noticed that when using windows you have to run a
> program to authenticate the connection but I figure Mac Spoofing (which
> I think the router can do) should sort this, also not quite sure how to
> get the router to use the NTL box as a gateway.
> 
> Has anyone out there connected a NTL Modem to a router/switch/hub?
> 
> Ben

   You should check that the default IP address of the ADSL modem is not in
use anywhere else in the combined network, and if neccessary re-configure
that, but otherwise what you suggest is what would be a normal requirement
of any ethernet router, and you would not expect it to stop every time an
ADSL link failed. Just ignore the fact that it has an ADSL modem included in
the box, and set the boxes on your network to use the NTL box as the default
gateway.
   If the NTL feed is wires only, and they do not require a specific box to
be connected to the end of their feed, you may even find that your box could
be re-configured as an alternative to the existing NTL termination.

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Chris Bell

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