At present I have a sky router (wired). I have two feeds coming out of it. One feed to my PS3 in the kitchen / dinner and one running upstairs to the guest bedroom where it goes into a netgear hub. This hub them supplies my two PC's.

 

I'm looking to change the sky router over to a wireless netgear router.

I purchased a Netgear DG834G v5 Wireless-G ADSL Modem Router from ebuyer but it's just not playing ball. Tried to set it up as recommended but I'm getting a red internet light on the router the other lights are green.

 

Anyone switched from Sky wired to a wireless of some sort and can give me some tips.

What is the connection status? Mine kept saying LCP is allowed to come up or LCP is down but I knew the settings were correct and bt claimed there was no problems on the line... a firmware update fixed it in the end...

Yeah I think I'm going to have to bypass this wizard and connect directly to the router. I think I need to Spoof my mac address to start with and go from there.

You shouldn't have to... Or I've never had to at least. 192.168.0.1 should open up the logon screen and the default is admin and password I think.

Thanks mate, yeah I've not log onto the router directly yet. I'll do that tonight.

You shouldn't have to... Or I've never had to at least. 192.168.0.1 should open up the logon screen and the default is admin and password I think.

 

Agreed :thumbup1:

what sky router have you got? is it black or white. plus you cant use any other router then a sky one if you use sky internet.

what sky router have you got? is it black or white. plus you cant use any other router then a sky one if you use sky internet.

 

Really? how come

 

and think the new one is a netgear

I had a very good router when i was with BT internet, now i work for sky I get free internet but the good router did not work I had to use the sky one. Was told it has some settings in it, you can get another router to work but you have to play round with it. I did not bother as the wireless is very good with the sky router.

I had a very good router when i was with BT internet, now i work for sky I get free internet but the good router did not work I had to use the sky one. Was told it has some settings in it, you can get another router to work but you have to play round with it. I did not bother as the wireless is very good with the sky router.

 

ahhh ok just thought worth an ask as was thinking of going with sky broadband and the call package when are current ISP contract expires :)

 

Cheers

 

Chris

Oh this might help.

 

https://www.cm9.net/skypass/

You were right. Due to the firmware only sky routers work. Just so happens that the one I had was actually wireless. You couldn't tell as there was no aerial etc. All sorted now

glad to help!