Skinny - can you use your own router?

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#289908 7-Oct-2021 19:47

Someone is currently using a FritzBox with their Big Pipe connection. If they switch to Skinny possible to keep using the FritzBox? I read online, the website says you need to use the Skinny router.

Any advice on this?

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#2792160 9-Oct-2021 11:55

You do get the Spark Smart Modem with Skinny which is a good router with great WiFi. I would recommend using that (noting also you get no support from Skinny if you don't) unless if you've got a very good reason not to.

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#2801619 26-Oct-2021 20:47

Voyager2:
Man, I've had no success this afternoon trying to get my pfSense box working with Skinny, though. I had it set up for Stuff Fibre before just fine, and figured (after reading all the relevant hits I could find) that all I needed to do was change from a DHCP-based connection to a PPPoE connection, dummy up the auth fields, remove the VLANs, and whoosh. No such luck :-(

I can see pfSense sending its PPPoE discovery packet, but it ends up in the void - nothing ever responds to it. And the packet itself doesn't include any of the auth info - it's just an "is there any PPP server out there" thing. Has anyone got pfSense, specifically, working with Skinny?

Are you 100% sure VLAN 10 is off?

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