Configure router/modem as a stand-by for the ISP,s box.

Jonnyc · 10-03-2015, 09:22 PM

Where I live in Central France we get frequent thunderstorms. The last one took out the ISP's box and I was without phone and internet for a week while they replaced it. I have a modem/router which I thought of using as a temporary replacement but when I tried to configure it it asked questions like "VPI/VCI","registrar address" etc., which I couldn't answer. The ISP refused to provide the info.
Has anyone done this before? Is it possible? It must be, else how can the makers sell their modems?

JC

af7567 · 10-04-2015, 04:26 AM

My parents have an ADSL connection with France Telecom/orange/wanadoo/whatever it is called now. The vpi/vci is 8/35 for France. For encapsulation both PPPoA VC-MUX and PPPoE seem to work. You will need a login name and password from the ISP though, the username may start with "fti/".

My parents have also lost 3 or 4 routers to lightning over the years