On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, at 07:19, john doe wrote: > You are correct in the case of an ADSL "router". > > Sadly, in the case of my European ISP I'm stuck with what they give me! > I must say that I've never investigated how I could use my own cable > modem and understand the kind of restriction they're using to prevent me > from doing that!!! :)
I've a Virgin Media cable connection in the UK. They supply a combined modem/router. But the unit can be put into modem-only mode, and used with a different router. So far as I remember the first of these combined things that I received came with only very basic instructions that did not mention the way to do this - it was Virgin's own technical support people who told me how to do it. Subsequent improved models have come with instructions that mentioned the possibility. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.
