Some friends recently signed up for Wanadoo broadband. They want to replace
the supplied USB modem with a router-modem in order to share the connection
with other networked machines. We're looking at both wired and wireless
solutions.

Can anyone recommend a router that has proven to work well with Wanadoo?
(Personally I use a Vigor 2600g on BT,but that's beyond their budget.) Also,
can anyone suggest where I might find an faq for router settings on the
Wanadoo service?

Many thanks.
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Wanadoo still use BT Wholesale's equipment at the exchanges - so anything
which works with that will be fine.

For wireless adsl modem/routers look at (among others)

Belkin 7630
Netgear 834G
USR 9106

For wired only - ebuyer do a cheap 1 port for under £25 (Quickfind code:
48448) and a 4 port one for £27..

It will be the same as any other ISP - VPI and VCI settings of 0 and 38
etc..

Regards
Sunil

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BT's ADSL network runs over ATM..

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/V/VCI.html
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/V/VPI.html

Regards
Sunil

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:53:17 GMT, Nigel M <reply@thegroup.com> wrote:

They are set out in a page within the Wanadoo help/faq pages
accessible from the Wanadoo home page.
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On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:45:37 -0000, "Sunil Sood"
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product if you are some distance from your exchange. The little silver
Speedtouch modem works fine for me but a Belkin 7632 modem/router
didn't.
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Paladin wrote:
The one I wouldn't recommend is Wannadoo's own branded one as I've yet to
meet up with one which works fully (well I suppose I wouldn't in my line of
work, but you get my drift). The remote units are to small to contain any
meaningful aeriel size whilst the base unit appears to be all style & no
guts (that's if you want a pulsating W of course) & if my memory serves me
well it only has the one ethernet port.

Any 'named' router should do but bare in mind that some do have problems
coping with P2P traffic...

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Yes, I would avoid these - they are locked down and can only be used with
Wanadoo's service..

Regards
Sunil

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Ethernet routers generally store these details themselves.

By "phone number field" it sounds like your friends are using USB modems.

These are basically just dumb units and the Windows (assuming thats what
they use) drivers has to provide the the username and VCI/VPI information.

How they do this depends on the modem/manufacturer.

Most I have seen include the VPI/VCI information within the drivers
somewhere .

For instance, the Alcatel Speedtouch range have a special file called
phonebook.ini - and the one you would use differs depending on if you are
connected via BT Wholesale or via Kingston Communications (who use different
VPI/VCI settings from BT)

However, some seem to require you to put it in the phone number field - this
originally came up when some ISP's switched from giving the Alcatel free to
a Fujitsu USB modem. Its possble that other modems based on the same chipset
require the same.

Now you're making me feel old - but yes it does suprise me sometimes just
how long I have been online.. just a couple of years before you

Regards
Sunil

The 4-port router at
http://www.viewcon.biz/catalog/produ...products_id=32
claims to work with all ISPs.

I bought one for my brother's home network and it worked first time out of
the box on Pipex. However it didn't work on standard BT broadband -
presumably because BT configure things to only allow their routers to work.
He was much happier after I'd helped him migrate to another ISP when all was
fine.

Chris

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Sunil Sood wrote:
That means they're an even bigger pile of cows manurer than I previously
thought...

Just wait there'll be some one along in a minute saying that they's is the
best thing since Hovis..... ;-)

Thanks for all the feedback, guys, it helps a lot. I'll let you know how I
get on!
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Just connected a Netgear 834G to my Wanadoo BB. It took about 10 minutes to
set-up (I have a wired connection to the PC). The only info I had to enter
was Wanadoo username and password.

Lasitha