BT Infinity, third party router?
Discussion
A friend of mine who I help with IT stuff for his small business contacted me recently to say that his work computer could no longer access the internet and his business partner and secretary could no longer connect to it over the VPN. Previously he had a regular BT Business ADSL line and I'd set up a Draytek router with a VPN facility which the others used to connect to his work PC from time to time.
I got there last night to discover that he'd been offered BT Infinity and had duly accepted their offer. BT had turned up, removed the Draytek, installed a new telephone/DSL socket, an OpenReach Infinity modem and the BT Business hub thing as a separate unit with a CAT5 type cable connecting to the modem. Helpful chaps, they hadn't even bothered to check if there was anything specific like VPN etc. on his existing router.
So I unplugged the BT gubbins and connected up his original Draytek ADSL router to the DSL socket on the new phone point but it couldn't bring up a DSL connection. So question one - I take it that Infinity presents a newer DSL standard that his (2004 vintage) Draytek can't deal with?
If so then question two - can I get him a newer Draytek (or similar) that's able to connect to the OpenReach router with a CAT5 cable and just do away with his little black BT business hub thing?
I should point out that the reason I don't want to use the BT stuff is because it doesn't have a VPN endpoint facility and I don't want to open ports in it to have the work computer act as the VPN endpoint (by endpoint I mean the device that acts as the "server" end of the VPN connection, I'm not really a network person so please excuse me if I've abused the terminology a bit).
Thanks in advance,
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I got there last night to discover that he'd been offered BT Infinity and had duly accepted their offer. BT had turned up, removed the Draytek, installed a new telephone/DSL socket, an OpenReach Infinity modem and the BT Business hub thing as a separate unit with a CAT5 type cable connecting to the modem. Helpful chaps, they hadn't even bothered to check if there was anything specific like VPN etc. on his existing router.
So I unplugged the BT gubbins and connected up his original Draytek ADSL router to the DSL socket on the new phone point but it couldn't bring up a DSL connection. So question one - I take it that Infinity presents a newer DSL standard that his (2004 vintage) Draytek can't deal with?
If so then question two - can I get him a newer Draytek (or similar) that's able to connect to the OpenReach router with a CAT5 cable and just do away with his little black BT business hub thing?
I should point out that the reason I don't want to use the BT stuff is because it doesn't have a VPN endpoint facility and I don't want to open ports in it to have the work computer act as the VPN endpoint (by endpoint I mean the device that acts as the "server" end of the VPN connection, I'm not really a network person so please excuse me if I've abused the terminology a bit).
Thanks in advance,
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Awesome, thanks for all the help.
I hadn't realised that infinity was vDSL - that makes sense now.
The current Draytek is a Vigor 2600, it's of a 2004 vintage and has no WAN2 port for support of a cable modem connection, only an aDSL port. I selected a Draytek originally back in about 2005 for him as it had hardware VPN endpoint support and I'd heard good things about their stability, reliability etc. I've since used Draytek routers for a few of my homers and had no problems at all so I'll have a look and select another one. That 2850n that someone linked to on Dabs (many thanks) looks like just the thing.
Thanks again, everyone
I hadn't realised that infinity was vDSL - that makes sense now.
The current Draytek is a Vigor 2600, it's of a 2004 vintage and has no WAN2 port for support of a cable modem connection, only an aDSL port. I selected a Draytek originally back in about 2005 for him as it had hardware VPN endpoint support and I'd heard good things about their stability, reliability etc. I've since used Draytek routers for a few of my homers and had no problems at all so I'll have a look and select another one. That 2850n that someone linked to on Dabs (many thanks) looks like just the thing.
Thanks again, everyone
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