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Netgear Orbi RBK50 with Openreach ECI modem
I want to replace my BT broadband with Plusnet. I have an Openreach ECI modem (model B-Focus v-2FUb/r Rev B) and a HomeHub 5 Type A. Can I keep the ECI modem and connect a Netgear Orbi RBK50 direct...
Many thanks for your feedback! Meantime I found a comment on a Plusnet blog saying that a Netgear WNDR4500 works with this ECI modem albeit w/o line stats available, so perhaps the Orbi does too!?
"I have a Netgear WNDR4500 router that has a PPPoE input that used to be used with a Netgear DM111P ADSL2+ modem used in RFC bridge mode. The WNDR4500 does work with the ECI B-FoCus V-2Fub/r modem supplied by BT, but the ECI modem is crippled and does not let the line stats be seen."
If I need to bridge the ECI modem...as I have zero experience of this kind of tech...is there a procedure available to be able to do that?
Line status (typically of xDSL or few for FTTx) is known on the modem or media adapter only. Router/modem combos can have access to this information, but generic routers (no matter if using transparent Ethernet or any encapsulation like PPPoE) can't get access tho this data - typically a modem (in pure modem mode) does not have an IP address.