Own router with Sky Broadband router

[ASHHBI]

Just wondering if anyone is using their own router with Sky Broadband.

Thinking about jumping ship to Sky

 

[Willo3092]

I'm casting my mind back here but I'm pretty sure I just switched DHCP off on the Sky router and plugged my own one into it to handle allocating IP addresses.

 

[ASHHBI]

Thanks Willo. Just googled it and apparently you can use one but its against their T&C's and they can cut you off for using one.

 

[Willo3092]

They didn't turn my money away for using my own router lol

 

[kegnkiwi]

Its not so easy to get your user name and password either. It use to be easy but with the newer routers your need to kind of sniff out your password by connecting to the lan port.

 

[Speedygonzal]

I have run my own router with those from sky, bt, now (which seems identical to sky's). Don't believe any isp router stops you using your own, as long as you use yours as a secondary router (i.e. keeping isp router as is, just connecting the wan port of your own router to one of the ports free at your isp's router - as long as their IP ranges, ie first 3 numbers of the ip address, are not the same, which is generally the case but easy to change if not).

There are many advantages in keeping both routers going: now you have two sharing workload (e.g. wifi/nas/printer etc), or you can dedicate your own router to vpn traffic, or you can give both routers the same ssid but placed in different locations thereby extending your wifi range, etc. etc.

Do make them occupy different wifi channels though.