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Originally Posted by Troffer007
THanks for that guys. I was assuming I could use one of many ADSL Wireless Routers I already have, not configure the ADSL ISP account part & just use the Wireless and the 4 ports of the switch part for direct RJ45 connection to PC's etc. The problem I have is that the NTL modem is a DHCP server & NTL couldn't tell me how many IPs it was capable of dishing out. I need to know this so I can put a static IP with the same subnet as the NTL modem into the ADSL Router (obviously with the ADSL bit not active).
What you're saying is I need a DSL Wirelss Router & literally plug in one of it's RJ45 ethernet ports into the NTL modem's RJ45 connector & it just works - yes?
Dave
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Yes, you'd need to plug the WAN or Internet port (depending on how it's labelled) rom the DSL/Cable router into the RJ45 port of the NTL modem, switch off the modem and router, then switch on the modem, let the lights on it settle. And then switch on the router.
The usual IP address for the modem is
http://192.168.100.1 password and user are both "root" (without the "s) probably won't help you, but the subnet mask that's in use on my particular modem is 255.255.248.0
You could use one of the ADSL routers as a wireless bridge, although this i've only ever managed once with my old Belkin ADSL Router. by plugging one port into the modem and then using the wireless to access the web when it's set to "bridge" mode. Setting this part up though, may not be easy. And, will only support one PC.