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TP-Link Mc220l
Question about TP-Link Mc220l
Dear All, I am "blessed" with the Sunrise Internet Box (catastrophe) and absolutely need my own router. The Sunrise Internet Box has no bridge mode. I have fibre (1GB) from OTO socket (and live in Bern). Question: Can the following setting work? OTO-Dose--> fibre cable--> MC220L (with original Sunrise GIBC converter SFP-31W2A (SM-10)-DR) and from there a Lan cable to my Netgear R7000 (router without modem function)? Question to the dear community: a) can this work or have I misunderstood something? b) is there another (cheap and easy) way to bypass the Sunrise Box? (The Sunrise Fritzbox 5490 has no Brdige mode either) c) if a) works - what speed can I expect? Thank you very much!
Helpful answer
Hello,
Your idea absolutely works in theory. And the first part certainly works in practice: "OTO-Dose--> fibre optic cable--> MC220L (with original Sunrise GIBC converter SFP-31W2A (SM-10)-DR) and from there a Lan cable to my Netgear R7000 (router without modem function)".
Although Sunrise theoretically does not force you to use a router, this is not the case with the router because Sunrise has stored access data such as VLAN, dhcp-client-identifier, user name and password on the Internet Box, which are not made accessible to you. I did not receive any access data from Sunrise, even when I asked for it. You may find what you are looking for in dslforum.org. I was able to get it to work reasonably well with a Fritz Box. But not with any other router. At least not with satisfactory speed. If you have the appropriate knowledge, you can use a tool like Wireshark and a VLAN-capable switch to record the network traffic and read out the configuration data of the Sunrise Box.
I have changed providers in the meantime and am now with Fiber7. There is real router freedom and you receive all access data without being asked.
Greetings and good luck.