New Router Settings Advice (BT)

Little technical advice plz guys.
I am planning to install my new router tonight which is a Netgear DG834N.
I am currently on BT Broadband, can anyone tell me what settings/information will I need to set up the new router??

Well you'll need your connection username and password... that should be about it.

Yup, all the other settings should use the default values :)

Some Netgears I've installed have had the incorrect VPI & VCI settings from default, so check that you have VPI = 0, VCI = 38.

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Originally Posted by Splash

Well you'll need your connection username and password... that should be about it.

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Originally Posted by dave87

Yup, all the other settings should use the default values :)

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Thanks chaps, even I should be able to get that right:)

get the settings off your old router.

Yeah my DG834PN set itself up for me. I just told it my username and pw and it was away.

My old bt broadband thing didn't even need a password! It just had a username, secure huh!

If you're actually using BT Broadband (or BT Yahoo or one of the many other names they've used) then you don't need a password - BT picked up your phone number and authenticate you that way.

You'd think that but I was using my parents username when I was at uni for a few days whilst i had some issue with the account creation at uni.

Didn't seem they used the phone number as any form or validation there