{"id":252,"date":"2014-03-27T23:23:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T22:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/?p=252"},"modified":"2014-03-27T23:23:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T22:23:41","slug":"sky-o2-broadband-and-linksys-wag54gs-routers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Sky O2 Broadband and Linksys WAG54GS routers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to what Sky will tell you about how to setup a router to use their service, it won&#8217;t work. At least not as they explain it.<br \/>\nTo read it for yourself, look here:\u00a0<a href =\"http:\/\/helpforum.sky.com\/t5\/tkb\/articleprintpage\/tkb-id\/sky_broadband_setupcablingconnectionwifi@tkb\/article-id\/14\">http:\/\/helpforum.sky.com\/t5\/tkb\/articleprintpage\/tkb-id\/sky_broadband_setupcablingconnectionwifi@tkb\/article-id\/14<\/a><br \/>\nor here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/service.o2.co.uk\/IQ\/SRVS\/CGI-BIN\/WEBCGI.EXE?New,Kb=Companion,question=ref(User):str(Broadband),T=Broadband_Case,CASE=24812\">http:\/\/service.o2.co.uk\/IQ\/SRVS\/CGI-BIN\/WEBCGI.EXE?New,Kb=Companion,question=ref(User):str(Broadband),T=Broadband_Case,CASE=24812<\/a><br \/>\nI tried a few different ways but in the end, these worked for me:<br \/>\nEncapsulation: \u00a0RFC1483 Bridged \u00a0(Your router may call this: IPoE)<br \/>\nMultiplexing: \u00a0VC<br \/>\nAutodetect: Disable<br \/>\nVPI: 0<br \/>\nVCI: 102<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t auto-detect your IP address. Instead enter the static IP they gave you as a \/24 with the first IP in the block as the gateway.<br \/>\nDNS: 87.194.225.154<br \/>\nDNS: 87.194.225.155<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/skybroadband.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-253\" title=\"skybroadband\" src=\"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/skybroadband-271x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIf it is all working, you should see it on your status page. I could pretty much get the DSL line to come up on most settings but getting it to log a gateway was an impossible task. All good now though:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/skystatus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-254\" title=\"skystatus\" src=\"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/skystatus-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to what Sky will tell you about how to setup a router to use their service, it won&#8217;t work. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/?p=252\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[223,241,308,309],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}