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[mhamzahkhan]

I have a HG612 router I obtained from a family member who was with BT a while ago.

I recently moved to a new flat, in a new building which BT only provide ADSL2 at the moment.

I would much rather use my own router over the HomeHub that BT provided so I figured I can use the HG612 in a "bridge" mode, and just plug that into my router and all should be fine and well.

But it seems I cannot figure out how to get the HG612 to bridge PPPoA over to the LAN1 port, but if I use EoA, I can see that it bridges the ATM interface directly to the LAN1 port.

So, I was wondering, if I keep the HG612 on EoA, which would be bridged to LAN1, and then setup PPPoE on my router (which would be connected to the LAN1 port of the HG612), would this do the trick?

This way the HG612 would kind of act like a media converter, converting the Ethernet frames into ATM frames.

Would this work?

[burakkucat]

Yes, I'm fairly certain that would work.

Perhaps you could try it and then report back with your findings, please?

[tickmike]

Welcome to the forum.

Are you on ADSL or FTTC connection ?.

Have you unlocked  the HG612 ?.

[mhamzahkhan]

Yes, I'm fairly certain that would work.

Perhaps you could try it and then report back with your findings, please?

Excellent! My line just got activated today, so I will give it a shot when I get home and report back.

Welcome to the forum.

Thank you!

Are you on ADSL or FTTC connection ?.

ADSL2.

Have you unlocked  the HG612 ?.

Yup

[mhamzahkhan]

Just tested it. It seems to work!
Very happy.

[burakkucat]

That's good news. 

Thank you for performing the test and reporting back with your findings.