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Bell Home Hub 2000 - Able to put in bridge mode?

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Mar 13, 2015
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Anybody know how it can be done? I've tried different ways but no luck. I've got a Cisco IOS router set up with the PPPoE dialer.

It's a residential Home Hub 2000.
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Old thread, but there is one thing you might try to access Bridge mode, following a tip that works for the locked-down Telus Actiontec modem+router units (turns out that they didn't disable those locked-out functions, they just hid them by using an invisible font style).
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Hard reset he modem using the reset button at the side of the modem. Press it continuously for 30 seconds till your power light flickers. do this process for 5 times. before the 5th reboot connect your router's wan to port 1 of the home hub. enter b1### on your router. This works.

while in bridge mode, if you connect port 2-4; you will still get ip of 192.168.2.x when you start using internet it will ask initiate the bell modem configuration. (if you do this go can go back to original configuration)

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Hello, I upgraded to Fibe 50/10 and was sent a HH2000. I'd like to bypass the HH2000 but when I tried it I was only getting slower speeds (16 down).

What I did was same as above:

1) I started with a factory reset of the HH2000, just to be sure things were ‘flushed’, and I entered my b1 info for the Fibe Internet connection.
2) HH2000 connected to bell connection.
3) I disabled Wifi on HH2000.
5) I re-configured the router settings with what I wanted (or not – password, etc.)
6) I plugged a patch cable from the WAN port on my Linksys E3000 to the LAN port #1 of the HH2000, and added my old modem to the DMZ on the HH2000. Note that the only settings I needed to change on my ‘old’ router was the PPOE info -- I entered my b1 info on the old router and verified that the HH2000 and my router had different IPs. So basically, the b1 info had to be entered on <both> modem.

Now, do I need to assign a different subnet on the Linksys? What number/subnet do I give the Linksys? No TV or anything else at my place....just Internet...Thanks.
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so there's no easy way like other router to set this on bridge mode?

will there be any latency if i just disabled the wifi on HUB 1000/2000 and connect the pppoe from router?
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It's actually very easy and as a few others have mentioned - all you need to do is connect WAN from your router to LAN on hh2k. On your router, configure PPPoE with your b1 user id and that's it. You do NOT need to configure any dmz, port forwards or worry about which network to configure your LAN.

By default, any device connected to hh2k on LAN will be assigned an IP off of 192.168.2/24 via DHCP. It will be entirely segregated from you own LAN behind your own router. You can configure your own LAN to have 192.168.2/24 if you want as well.
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There is no bridge mode. The modem has to be online with a routable IP so Bell can manage it for the purpose of software upgrades and remote access for troubleshooting.
Even when Bell tech support shut off the GUI (bridge like mode) the modem still has a routable IP for management purposes. A true bridge modem is a dumb device that has no IP.
Here's the spec on how the modems are managed: https://www.broadband-forum.org/technic ... ment-5.pdf
Shut off Wifi, plug your 3rd party router into any LAN port put your credentials in the router and it will establish it's own PPPOE session.

Please stop spreading misinformation.
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plymouthhater wrote: There is no bridge mode. The modem has to be online with a routable IP so Bell can manage it for the purpose of software upgrades and remote access for troubleshooting.
Even when Bell tech support shut off the GUI (bridge like mode) the modem still has a routable IP for management purposes. A true bridge modem is a dumb device that has no IP.
Here's the spec on how the modems are managed: https://www.broadband-forum.org/technic ... ment-5.pdf
Shut off Wifi, plug your 3rd party router into any LAN port put your credentials in the router and it will establish it's own PPPOE session.

Please stop spreading misinformation.
Who's spreading misinformation?
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TypeVR6 wrote: Who's spreading misinformation?

at some point in this "stonewall cycle" some bell rep will feel sorry for you and send you up to second level support.

7) ask them to put your modem into bridge mode.
8) 10 seconds later your home hub will be in bridge mode.
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[quote="plymouthhater" post_id="25897029" time="1462623110" user_id="12211"]There is no bridge mode. The modem has to be online with a routable IP so Bell can manage it for the purpose of software upgrades and remote access for troubleshooting.
Even when Bell tech support shut off the GUI (bridge like mode) the modem still has a routable IP for management purposes. A true bridge modem is a dumb device that has no IP.
Here's the spec on how the modems are managed: https://www.broadband-forum.org/technic ... ment-5.pdf
Shut off Wifi, plug your 3rd party router into any LAN port put your credentials in the router and it will establish it's own PPPOE session.

Please stop spreading misinformation.[/QUOTE
So there is no real bidge mode. I just want to confirm there is no latency or speed drop with that 'fake bridge' mode setting you mentioned?
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There is an issue with the older Non Home Hub 1000/2000 modem aka Sagem 2864 where the max throughput on the PPPOE session on the secondary router is limited to 50 meg (as the modem is processing the passthrough data). The Home Hubs do not suffer the same issue.
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Guys,

Currently, I did plug my Asus router WAN port to a LAN port on the HomeHub 2000. My Asus router is setup as DHCP so it's getting an IP and internet works fine..

I've put the asus in the DMZ zone on the HomeHub 2000...

But everyone here is talking about adding the B1 info to the PPOE section of the ASus modem. Is this required as currently on my asus it's DHCP and it's all working fine.

What am I missing here to put it as close as I can to bridge mode ?

Thanks!
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SpykeYs wrote: Guys,

Currently, I did plug my Asus router WAN port to a LAN port on the HomeHub 2000. My Asus router is setup as DHCP so it's getting an IP and internet works fine..

I've put the asus in the DMZ zone on the HomeHub 2000...

But everyone here is talking about adding the B1 info to the PPOE section of the ASus modem. Is this required as currently on my asus it's DHCP and it's all working fine.

What am I missing here to put it as close as I can to bridge mode ?

Thanks!
That's not the best way to do it, let your asus do the PPPoE authentication and obtain a public IP address.
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And I also leave PPPOE on the Hub 2000 for fibe tv to work ?

Thanks
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SpykeYs wrote: And I also leave PPPOE on the Hub 2000 for fibe tv to work ?

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Yup. Disable wifi too.
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so is it same way for Hub 1000?
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I had a different approach to this issue, for my LAN
just got the Fibe 50/10 service ( im doing actually ~62/~61 ) and i was wondering how to implement it to my current network.

Bell = 192.168.2.0
my LAN is 192.168.1.0 , so when the tech replaced my Videotron modem with his, he plugged the WAN port to his Fibe LAN 1 port.
kinda worked, was getting 6/10 speeds which was bad. ended up that after i changed the network cable i sky rocked to ~62/~61 lol i was very happy

But my problem was that from my LAN ( 192.168.1.0 ) i couldn't ping/tracert any internet sites.

So what i did is configure my WAN port with a static IP 192.168.2.2
then added a route in my router that tells my 192.168.1.0 to go through 192.168.2.2 if you wanna go out then everything worked from inside my LAN

Now the problem i am facing, is i cannot add a route in the Bell Home Hub 2000, because i want to use the wifi function on the Bell router but any devices that connects to that wifi cannot access my resources on my 192.168.1.0 lan :(

after reading all the posts, i think i will give a call to Bell support and see if they can add manually a route on my router to accommodate me.
Kinda disappointing to have a device with potential that is locked down to not doing much ;/

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TypeVR6 wrote: Yup. Disable wifi too.
Why disable WiFi on the Home Hub? Isn't the Home Hub wifi required for Fibe devices?

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