How to change my broadband modem?

cdfreelancer · 01-26-2005, 11:31 AM

About a month ago I cancelled my broadband connection with a 'certain' company and as I had completed my 12 month contract I got to keep the 'speedtouch 330' modem. Last week I started recieving broadband again but this time with British telecom. I asked BT in advance whether I would be able to use my old 'speedtouch 330' instead of having to pay extra for a new modem and was told that the 330 would work fine as it's more than able to carry 512KB broadband.
BT sent me a new modem anyway just incase I couldn't get the 330 to work. The new modem they sent me is the 'BT Voyager 205 ADSL Router'.
Now when I inserted the software CD that BT sent me, I went through the procedure to set up the new connection but instead of using the new modem, I plugged in the 330. I thought that it would be OK because the modem was indicating that a DSL signal was being picked-up because it was displaying 2 solid green lights. However, the installation procedure informed me that it couldn't detect a modem and asked me to plug-in the 'BT Voyager 205 ADSL Router', which I did. As soon as I did so, the router was detected, the installation completed and now I am happily surfing the net.
However, I don't want to splash-out £30 on a router when I have a perfectly good modem that will do the job already. I'm not keen on using a router anyway because I've heard that they can be a pain in the ****. It isn't possible to host in certain internet games, such as rome total war, if you are behind a router, for example.
My problem is that I don't have a clue how to configure my new connection to recognise my trusty old 'speedtouch 330'.
Does anyone have an idea how this can be done?
Thanks in advance!

cdfreelancer · 01-31-2005, 10:39 PM

Please help..Anyone.

Kboy · 01-31-2005, 11:31 PM

Reinstall the software for the speed-touch and uninstall the other software. Try that, i dunno :-)

01-26-2005, 11:31 AM	#1 (permalink)
cdfreelancer Silver Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Bath, UK Age: 30 Posts: 227	How to change my broadband modem? About a month ago I cancelled my broadband connection with a 'certain' company and as I had completed my 12 month contract I got to keep the 'speedtouch 330' modem. Last week I started recieving broadband again but this time with British telecom. I asked BT in advance whether I would be able to use my old 'speedtouch 330' instead of having to pay extra for a new modem and was told that the 330 would work fine as it's more than able to carry 512KB broadband. BT sent me a new modem anyway just incase I couldn't get the 330 to work. The new modem they sent me is the 'BT Voyager 205 ADSL Router'. Now when I inserted the software CD that BT sent me, I went through the procedure to set up the new connection but instead of using the new modem, I plugged in the 330. I thought that it would be OK because the modem was indicating that a DSL signal was being picked-up because it was displaying 2 solid green lights. However, the installation procedure informed me that it couldn't detect a modem and asked me to plug-in the 'BT Voyager 205 ADSL Router', which I did. As soon as I did so, the router was detected, the installation completed and now I am happily surfing the net. However, I don't want to splash-out £30 on a router when I have a perfectly good modem that will do the job already. I'm not keen on using a router anyway because I've heard that they can be a pain in the ****. It isn't possible to host in certain internet games, such as rome total war, if you are behind a router, for example. My problem is that I don't have a clue how to configure my new connection to recognise my trusty old 'speedtouch 330'. Does anyone have an idea how this can be done? Thanks in advance! __________________ AMD Athlon 2400+ ECS K7S5A Radeon 9600 (256MB DDR) DDR-SDRAM PC2100/PC3200 1024MB Windows XP Pro 32 bit 8MB broadband

01-31-2005, 10:39 PM	#2 (permalink)
cdfreelancer Silver Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Bath, UK Age: 30 Posts: 227	Please help..Anyone. __________________ AMD Athlon 2400+ ECS K7S5A Radeon 9600 (256MB DDR) DDR-SDRAM PC2100/PC3200 1024MB Windows XP Pro 32 bit 8MB broadband

01-31-2005, 11:31 PM	#3 (permalink)
Kboy Silver Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Knoxville Age: 19 Posts: 124	Reinstall the software for the speed-touch and uninstall the other software. Try that, i dunno :-) __________________ And on the eighth day God created the PC, and it was not so good. :)

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