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Twohills
Mar 10, 2020Aspirant
Using R6220 on Virginmedia Superhub 2AC in modem mode
Just aquired the R6220 and looking to set this as my home router and switch my Virgin superhub 2 (which doesn't support DDNS among other things) into modem only mode. I have quite a few devices o...
Twohills
Mar 11, 2020Aspirant
Thanks Antinode
Sorry about confusion. The Superhub 2AC is actually a Netgear product. The Virginmedia label says it's a VMDG490 and I believe it's a rebadged modified Netgear C6250 but with 4 x Gb LAN ports. I kept the LAN default subnet at 192.168.0.1 but set the DHCP scope to be 192.168.0.100 to 254. So yes, you were correct that my 14 wired devices use reserved IP's in the range 192.168.0.2.to.99. I want to make the DHCP settings on the R6220 the same so I do not have to reconfigure the wired devices at all including all the port settings etc. Hopefully this would mean just setting up all the ports/forwarding and rules within the R6220 to match those that were in the Virgin hub. In effect then I could set the hub to modem mode and connect to the R6220 and if needed, remove R6220 and switch hub back to router mode. You may have answered my question about conflict with WAN side! I mis-read the link IP as 192.168.0.100 where it is in fact 192.168.100.0 as you mentioned was typical for DOCSIS cable modems. So I think I'll give it a try unless you can see any issue I might run into. Thanks for your help.
antinode
Mar 11, 2020Guru
> [...] I believe it's a rebadged modified Netgear C6250 [...]
> [...] I mis-read the link IP as 192.168.0.100 where it is in fact
> 192.168.100.0 [...]
Ok. That makes more sense.
Your plan sounds reasonable to me. (Only one way to find out.)
- TwohillsMar 11, 2020Aspirant
Thanks Antinode. I'll update when I get round to trying it out.