BT HH4 as modem only?

[Terbinator]

Does anyone have experience with trying this? The short answer is "no", but someone on the NT forums with a HH5 appears to have gotten around it:
https://community.bt.com/t5/Connecte...436496#M101090

Hi, Just got a HH5 today.
Coming from Virgin Media using their SuperHub, I'm used to using modem only, then using my Draytek router to provide WiFi and routing. The Draytek used to get the external IP address.

Seems you can't choose modem only mode on the HH5.
So what I've done is to modify the DHCP scope on the HH5 to assign 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.0.5 addresses, leaving my Draytek to issue DHCP addresses on 192.168.1.x, I also changed the HH5 main IP address to 192.168.0.254.

I then connected my Draytek WAN port to port #4 on the HH5.
This allocated 192.168.0.2 to my Draytek (.1 was my laptop).

I then disabled the HH5 firewall and also created a custom port forwarding rule as follows:
Name: ANY-ANY ports 1-65535 Translated to 1-65535, this was then assigned to the Draytek device on 192.168.0.2
I also assigned my Draytek as the DMZ device.

This has effectively opened up the HH5 to allow everything to be directed to the Draytek.

To VPN in, I just need to know the external IP on the HH5.

So far so good.
Speed test at 70M down and 19 M up, wirelessly via the Draytek.
No complaints from the wife or kids either... time will tell.
Not tried Xbox yet.

I'm looking to connect my HH4 with an Asus N66U I've had for years. Do i really need to mess with the DHCP scope for the desired effects? I'd have thought dropping the HH4s firewall and Wifi signals would have the same effect?

[flearider]

why use the hh4 ? just plug into the draytek ?
with ee and it go's wall to eci modem to draytek