Sky broadband, can I use my own ADSL gateway router?

[The White Rabbit]

I am about to move to Sky from Tiscali.

No 'oh Sky are shit' etc please as its a done deal, beggars cant be choosers etc (Tiscali were alright, despite what folks say).

So I have been using a Linksys router and of course Sky sent me their Sagem wireless router and all the crap.

Does anyone know if I can just carry on as I am with my trusty Linksys, partly as my printer runs throught it too and the new Sky Sagem jobby doesn't have enough ports (two and I need three).

I would assume I can as the Linksys just picks up whatever is coming down my ADSL when configured rigt, doesnt it?

 

[DaveGSCymro]

Haven't a clue about routers but I have had no problems with sky, unlike BT

 

[bowser]

in short NO.

you don't have a user name or password. It is hidden in the sky router. You can get at it if you have a look at some web sites but to be honest it dont always work. I personaly phoned them up and told them I need more ports and got the netgear one sent through. Its the only part of the sky setup which is really crap, the sagem unit is dire. the netgear one is better, and overall their system is pretty good.
When I was talking to them on the phone, I had to shove in a couple of the "not fit for purpose etc" but they do give in.
It a bit of a pain because I have an unlocked bt home hub complete with the phone, and I would love to use that with the phone as a skype phone !!!

 

[The White Rabbit]

Thanks, I was having a read and some people have managed to get the required info (name and p/w) and others havent. I've probably got one of the quite new ones. I'll just work around it, I suppose.

 

[st247]

I managed it with mine (after having compatability problems with Dell wireless cards and the router), which was the earlier netgear by following the instructions here. There may be an answer for the newer sky/netgear routers here.

 

[The White Rabbit]

Now here's daft. I stuck my printer's network lead in one of the two other sockets Sky say are for 'future development' and it works fine. So there's at least three of the four ports work fine, not just the two they seem to suggest.

I only tried this as I forgot to buy a very long USB printer lead to get around this 'non-problem'.