Netgear router to BT Infinity

[Bahnstormer]

Okay you iT bods,

For a fair amount of this afternoon I've been trying to introduce a WDNR3800 to the modem of my Infinity broadband without success. Any top tips out there before I tackle this again as I felt I was going around in circles today.

Ta
Paul

 

[Pukmeister]

Presumably the router connects to the modem via a cat 5 Ethernet cable? Or is the modem already wireless and you are trying to bridge the two?

Once cabled, usually you access the router using a web browser on a local IP Address such as 192.168.x.x where x.x is 1.1 or 1.2

For getting into the router login page, it's usually admin for the login name and password for the password.

Once you get into the routers setup pages you can set the wireless network name (SSID), set it to be broadcast or hidden, enable wireless security eg WEP or WPA etc etc

When up and running, remember to change the default login password to prevent any old scrote from logging in and trashing your settings or disabling security.

Assuming its a dual-band wireless router like my WNDR4000 you need to configure two wireless networks on it. You can call them the same name and security login, but mine are named differently so I can tell if I am on 2.4GHz or 5GHz.

 

[E. Buygum]

Infinity is VDSL, not ADSL so I assume you need to connect the provided BT Openreach modem via cat 5 to one of the 5(?) standard Ethernet ports on the router, not the normal ADSL port (which would normally connect to the filter in the telephone socket if ADSL). The "modem" bit of your router becomes superfluous: you just use it for authentication and as a Wireless Access Point. BT do it this way because most routers don't support VDSL. If you had a VDSL router then, in theory, you could remove the BT modem provided.

 

[Bahnstormer]

All fixed

Simply pilot error in the end and couldn't see the wood for the trees, once a reset was performed it hooked up as easy as anything.
PD