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On of the UKs biggest ISP (Sky) allow you to use your own modem and router but the router must connect to the internet via DHCP passing a client ID via DHCP optuon 61.
The orbi router does not ...
jasehigh
Jan 02, 2019Follower
This appears to be a solution for the NightHawk router. I talking about the Orbi router.
Current seup is: A BT openreach modem and an Apple Airport Extreme router (which connects to the internert via DHCP providing the option 61 client id).
I would like to replace the Apple route with an Orbi router (for better WIFI) but (as far as I can tell) there is no means of providing the DHCP option 61 client id on the Orbi router.
Is this possible?