How do I communicate with my modem?

Question

I have a modem on the other side of my XR1000. The XR1000 replaced an old Asus router, which allowed me to talk right through it to the modem. Think is the XR does not. It was a really handy feature to have! Can anyone tell me how to talk through the XR? I need to change a few settings for the XR1000 in the modem itself.

plemans · Answer

what modem do you have?&nbsp;

P111 · Answer

Its a Draytek 130. The modem is 192.168.2.1 and the router is 192.168.1.1

As I said before, with my old Asus router this worked.

I seem to remember I had a different Netgear router years ago and that, too, failed to pass on messages to the modem.

Netduma-Fraser · Answer

Change the modem LAN IP to 192.168.1.1 and the XR to 192.168.2.1 then reboot each, then see if you can communicate with the modem from the XR.

P111 · Answer

Hello and thank you for the suggestion.&nbsp;Alas not, same result as before - nothing. I am wondering if this needs ports or something?

plemans · Answer

you're on a different subnet.
Try reading this thread a bit. I haven't ever needed to modify mine so I can't test it with my current setup because I'm on cable. But this is for using the same vigor modem&nbsp;
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https://www.snbforums.com/threads/how-to-access-wan-modem-from-lan-with-different-subnet-mask.29468/

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How do I communicate with my modem?

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