Using the Huawei HG612 on Digital Region instead of the Cellpipe

[mattyatty1]

(07-05-2012 01:00 AM)alexatkin Wrote:  I decided to be a guinea pig. I'm grabbing an OpenReach branded Huawei HG612 off eBay and will be unlocking it.

I wanted to get a ZyXEL or Draytek but it makes no sense me spending £150+ when I do not need a full router, just a bridge that lets me access the line stats. So I will be seeing if I can get that going on my Origin connection.

This way I get the line stats I really want to see without spending a fortune. If (once I am on Max) it turns out I am syncing at a high speed and believe the Cellpipe is not delivering - I can discuss the issue with Origin. Oliver made it clear they would consider providing a different VDSL router for anyone who can obtain a sync faster than the Cellpipe can handle. This way I can know for certain if that is happening or not without having to rely on Thales telling us.

I will be sure to let everyone know what happens.

@alexatkin

Well great minds must think alike!

I also have an Openreach Huawei HG612 modem that I use for fault finding and as you say reading line stats etc. They are a decent little tool to find such information out and as you say it cuts Thales out of the loop for providing information and allows you to directly look at your own statistics for the line.

I have recently been working on using it as my actual bridge on my DRL Origin connection as well!

Let me know how you get on with it. I am sure you will be fine as I unlocked mine in about five minutes flat and it was dead easy to do!