Draytek Vigor 120 and Airport Extreme

Hi. If you get this post this late in the day, can you please say a bit about how you set it up? The Draytek website doesn't have very much information, and I hear that the modem doesn't come with much documentation, and I'd like to know what I'm doing before I buy.

The promotional stuff suggests that I should just be able to plug in the DrayTek, hook the Airport Extreme into it, set the settings on the Extreme, and then I'd be good to go. Is this true?

I'm in the UK using the UK's industry-standard PPPoA for my ADSL connection. I therefore need a PPPoA to PPPoE bridge to get the Airport to work. (Right?) And the DrayTek has this, yes? So, in thoery, I just plug in, set the Airport to receive it's connection via PPPoE, enter my ISP's login credentials, and I'll be o.k.?

Also ... can you say something about how solid your connection has been? I regularly stream internet radio off my machine, so I need a set-up that doesn't have a lot of drop-outs. (I'm currently using a USR9108, which has served me pretty well, but has always had flaky moments, and is getting flakier with age.)

It doesn't come with any documentation, but there is a support page online with instructions on setting up with airport. It also tells you what to do if you're on O2/Be LLU - that requires configuration (which you can do by plugging into your mac's ethernet port) but if it's just standard ADSL then you're good to go out of the box.

The only downsides: I needed to upgrade the firmware to get a solid stable connection, not too much of a problem, except I had to do it with Firefox rather than Safari (scary moment when I thought it had crashed during flashing) and I had to go onto the Draytek forums to find the firmware.

http://www.i-lan.com.au/downloads/firmware/Vigor120/Beta/0813/V1200813332201.zip

Is the link, to save you time. I would try it without upgrading first, as it is beta and after flashing, the DSL/Internet lights don't work.

The REALLY annoying thing is that there's no way (that I have found) to view the ADSL status page (or telnet) to see sync rate or change configuration.

The really GOOD thing is that you can finally use back-to-my-mac and you no longer have two routers between you and the internet.

Hi

I have just bought a vigor 120 to use with o2 and my airport extreme.

As you seem to have some 1st hand knowledge of this I was wondering if it would be ok to ask a question or two.

I know that you need to set the 120 up forMPoA to access o2, and have found the instructions for this.
Do you then still set up the airport as described by draytek to receive internet over PPPoE? If so then do you also need a username and password and how do you get them from o2?

Hope this makes some sense, and gets a reply. Been trying to find answers everywhere with no luck.

Paul

I didn't have to set up for MPoA because I'm on their 'access' product, waiting for them to unbundle my exchange. I found this thread, which hopefully will answer your questions:

http://www.o2user.co.uk/forum/o2-broadband-tutorial-section/673-how-use-your-own -router-o2-broadband.html

If like me you're on the access product then you will need to get the RADIUS username & Password from support.

Thanks Faye,

Firstly for the quick response, and secondly for the really helpful link.

I think that gives me the info I need to set everything up now.

Thanks again

Paul