FWG can use a DSL router as a modem?
I'm looking to upgrade by Blue to a Gold (something that I want rather than need...). At home FTTP is a long way off and so the Gold will need to be hooked up to a DSL modem. Well looking around it's clear that manufacturers just don't really bother investing time into modem-only units as I can only find 2, and one of those looks like it might be out of production, and this has got me thinking: Can my existing WIFI DSL router be used as the WAN input to the Gold? If I disable WIFI on the router and connect one its LAN ports to the Gold's WAN port then would it be acting simply as a DSL modem as far as the Gold is concerned?
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Hi,
Thanks. No it can't run in bridge mode. TBH the router (Vodafone) is so bad that I don't want to forming any part of my set up here. As an experiment I've got hold of a used Draytek Vigor 130, which seems to be the only DSL modem still in production. Now, back in the very early noughties I had a D-Link DSL modem and that had the ISP credentials entered into its web interface and so the modem had everything it needed to connect all by itself, however the Vigor appears to expect the ISP credentials to be passed-through to it. I've tried this out with my current Vodafone router and it works fine as the WAN-port input. Would it work with a Gold, with the Gold passing-through the ISP creds to the Draytek like the Vodafone router is doing?
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