Need help please replacing Sky Router (SR101) with new AirPort Time Capsule (2TB)

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Need help please replacing Sky Router (SR101) with new AirPort Time Capsule (2TB)

Hi,

My existing wireless broadband setup consists of the following:

BT OpenReach Fibre Modem
Sky Router (SR101)

I want to replace "2. Sky Router (SR101)" with my brand new Apple AirPort Time Capsule (2TB) so that my updated wireless broadband network would be:

BT OpenReach Fibre Modem
Apple AirPort Time Capsule (2TB)

So far I have not had any success and would greatly appreciate in laymans terms what I need to do to achieve my updated wireless broadband network configuration. From posts I've found this should be possible when the BT Openreach modem and the Sky Router are separate boxes.

I've tried replacing the Sky Router (SR101) with the new AirPort Time Capsule and then taking the default configuration options in the AirPort utility which comes up on my MacBook Pro. This has even included resetting the BT Openreach Modem; as well as actually switching off the BT Openreach modem; and even resetting the AirPort Time Capsule via the recessed reset button on its back.

I can connect to the internet using the Sky Router (SR101) but I don't want to use this anymore as I now have a AirPort Time Capsule to do that job. Having to use both units; with the wireless mode on the Sky Router (SR101) switched off; would be silly I think and use up unecessary electricity.

Surely this is easy to achieve and I've just been missing something obvious...

Many thanks!

PS: I'm using the Sky Unlimited Fibre service...

Airport Time Capsule 802.11ac, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Dec 14, 2013 9:14 AM

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LaPastenague

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Dec 14, 2013 12:57 PM in response to Gamer109

From what I can see people are forced to still use the Sky router.

Do you know or does Sky provide you the username and password combo for you to login?

Can you ring their support and ask them? Have you tried to request support to replace their router with a generic router?

This most likely uses pppoe and so the TC needs to be setup with pppoe for wan, but you need the actual username and password to login. I suspect sky gives you the router preconfigured without telling you this vital information so they can control your usage.

http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/extracting-sky-router-passwords/51163-how-get-use rname-password-sky-hub-sr101-10.html

I cannot login as I am not a sky user.

And do not be surprised if sky prevents you from replacing the router.

Just bridge the TC and use it for wireless etc.. you can turn off wireless in the router SR101 I am sure.

Power consumption of a router is around 10W.. so the extra power usage will not amount to much.

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Gamer109 Author

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Dec 16, 2013 5:08 PM in response to LaPastenague

HI,

Many thanks for your helpful response. It was much better than ones I have recieved on another forum that I posted the same question. I'm told, so far without any substantiation from those posters and my own searches have not shown it yet either, that using a router other than the one supplied by Sky is against their T&C's. So sadly getting any support from Sky to get the required passwords, etc to enable use of my time capsule (which has a much better spec than their own router) won't happen. I did try calling Sky but that didn't go anywhere.

Thanks for the link to the posting that I had also seen regarding extracting the required passwords, etc.

I did try simply replacing the Sky supplied router with the Apple one but that didn't work unfortunately.

I agree I think the simplest solution in this case is to connect my time capsule to the Sky supplied router and to turn off the wireless feature of the Sky router (which can be done via the admin home page for the router). It's a shame to have the sky router still in the configuration but...

Again many thanks for the helpful repsonse...

PS: For others in a similar situation I did come across the following posting for users of the BT Infinity Service which might help them...

http://blog.macplaza.co.uk/2012/05/using-an-apple-time-capsule-with-bt-infinity/

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Gamer109 Author

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Dec 16, 2013 5:10 PM in response to LaPastenague

Opps I hit the "This helped me" instead of the "This solved my question" button. If you could post a short response I could then hit the correct "This solved my question" button for you instead...

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Dec 16, 2013 9:37 PM in response to Gamer109

Thanks .. I am too old to really worry about my status.

And I didn't really solve your problem .. just confirmed that Sky is a tight pack of you know what..!!

An Aussie and a Pom can work that one out but the Americans are shy of the Language..

Perhaps the NSA is listening in.

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Dec 10, 2014 2:08 PM in response to Gamer109

use the link given to give you the login and password for your sky router.

Use PPOE to connect your TC and enter the username and password given on the site.

This should let you replace your sky router.

Ted

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