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NTL Broadband / Eircom wireless router

  • 29-12-2005 9:34pm
    #1
    PixelTrawler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,299 ✭✭✭


    Can't find an answer on this one on the search so does anyone know if you can use the eircom supplied wireless router ( netopia model ) with the NTL cable modem to create a wireless net.

    I currently have eircom but im switching to NTL in january, just wondering if I can get the two modems to work together - the modem is pretty locked down with eircom firmware though...

    just wondering has anyone done this...


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  • #2
    paulm17781
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,858 ✭✭✭paulm17781


    If the Eircon router has an ethernet port it will work. If it's a phone port only it wont.


  • #3
    PixelTrawler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,299 ✭✭✭PixelTrawler


    it has a phone connection for dsl and 4 ethernet ports to connect wired...

    just wondering could you connect the ntl modem to one of these ports...


  • #4
    paulm17781
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,858 ✭✭✭paulm17781


    I've never tried. I think it should work. Make sure to turn of NATing on the Eircon router though.


  • #5
    PixelTrawler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,299 ✭✭✭PixelTrawler


    I'll give it a go in jan and let you know how it goes...


  • #6
    dub45
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭dub45


    Joebloggs4817 wrote:
    Can't find an answer on this one on the search so does anyone know if you can use the eircom supplied wireless router ( netopia model ) with the NTL cable modem to create a wireless net.

    I currently have eircom but im switching to NTL in january, just wondering if I can get the two modems to work together - the modem is pretty locked down with eircom firmware though...

    just wondering has anyone done this...

    This issue has been raised before on boards so it might be worth a search but I dont recall anyone posting that they had managed to do it successfully.


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  • #7
    MagicBusDriver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭MagicBusDriver


    It wont work.


  • #8
    ROVER
    Registered Users Posts: 429 ✭✭ROVER


    Why dont you ask NTL for a wireless router. I got Ntl before Christmas and got a Netgear 54mbps 802.11 g router supplied free by NTL.


  • #9
    yeroulfella
    Registered Users Posts: 90 ✭✭yeroulfella


    i thought you have to give the eircom router back when you are ending the contract??? i thought it was free rental sort of thing? other wise its about 145euro to buy. am i wrong on this


  • #10
    Jammer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,891 ✭✭✭Jammer


    NTL isn't ADSL....Eircom is...wont work...


  • #11
    PixelTrawler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,299 ✭✭✭PixelTrawler


    kinda suspect it might not work alright since its a modem/router

    i might just ask NTL. A guy at work asked the engineer at install and he gave him a wireless model he had in the van...


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