BT Business Hub Port forwarding

[Pheasant Surprise]

BT finally decided (after 5 different hubs and talking to level 2 support who had to go higher) to offer me £60 towards buying my own router. I have gone for
DrayTek Vigor 2862N Quad-WAN ADSL2+/VDSL2 WiFi 4 Router w/ Load Balancing, VPN & 3G/4G LTE Support (300Mbps N)

You know probably no lt such a bad thing.

I haven’t used an ISP supplied router in donkeys years, as I always find them....well basically tat!

Much prefer to use a router of my own choosing. When my connection does (finally, in some century) go live I will use my existing CradlePoint router wired direct to the ONT.

This way if the FTTP is fudged the router just fails back to a 4G connection and happy days.

 

[sjt01]

You know probably no lt such a bad thing.

I haven’t used an ISP supplied router in donkeys years, as I always find them....well basically tat!

Much prefer to use a router of my own choosing. When my connection does (finally, in some century) go live I will use my existing CradlePoint router wired direct to the ONT.

This way if the FTTP is fudged the router just fails back to a 4G connection and happy days.

The fallback to 4G included in the package was one of the attractions of the BT offering. The sales folks said that there is a chance that the BT dongle (Huawei) may work with the Draytek, but BT say it does not work with their pre-Hub 5 devices. The BT business second tier support was very good and helpful, and spent quite a bit of time and effort trying to fix the problem. If there is a firmware upgrade they will let me know. I suspect BT consumer help might be a bit less approachable.
By the way, the Tesla has just failed its second MOT on a non-functioning headlight adjuster, something new in the test so down to MK next week.