Anytime+ & Non Sky Router - is there a definite answer?

[sheppy99]

I'm trying to help a friend get their Anytime+ working with a non sky router and it's proving problematic.
Searching around for solutions I've discovered spoofing the ip address, putting through UDP port 3700, and putting through many ports including port 3700 as suggestions but this doesn't seem to work.

Has anyone actually got this working reliably? If so how.

An alternative solution is to persuade the Sky Sagem router to allow addition of a couple of static routes on the LAN side as well as get it to regularly report it's external ip address using either SNMP or display it in a simple non javascript webpage.

[Scubbie]

It does appear that some routers do not work well with Anytime+.

Which router are you trying to use?

I have a Netgear DGN3700 that works perfectly well with the Sky+ HD STB and Anytime+. Another member has posted today stating that the DGN1000 didn't work, but the DGN3500 does.

As a small issue, just to check things, is UPnP enabled on your router?

[sheppy99]

Thanks for the reply
It's a Draytek modem into an Edimax load balancing gateway.
I've routed all traffic from the sky subnet to the sky broadband and turned upnp on. I've also forwarded ports and it sees the network if I set the sky box
with a manual ip but it says something like "service not found." A speed test on a pc on that subnet shows sky bb so the routing is correct but I'm not sure what else to try.

[Scubbie]

Are you connected to two broadband suppliers?

[sheppy99]

Yes 2 suppliers but all traffic apart from one machine goes out via sky bb. Sky bb is a backup for the other machine. It's worked fine for a couple of years with another supplier until sky and anytime entered the picture.

[MixDeeJay]

I just like to get what I pay for ;-)
I admit it is a pain not being able to define the setup the way I would like it, but as long as the backup works out of the Draytek then I can always do a manual swap between routers to get anytime as and when I need it. I can always dump the relevant shows to the Sky box and then swap back to the Draytek for the majority of the time, if you think that will work.

[Scubbie]

One suggestion might be to connect the Sky router to the Internet and connect one of it's Ethernet ports to your own router's Ethernet WAN port.

Connect the Sky+ HD STB directly to the Sky router and everything else can connect via your own router.

By giving the WAN port a fixed IP address and placing that in the Sky router's DMZ settings, you should achieve everything required.

There is talk that later this year Sky may actually open up Anytime+ so that it can be used on any ISP. when this happens perhaps you could revisit your setup.

[sheppy99]

Curiously enough it still shows service fail but actually works now - go figure!
Someone mentioned ghosting the MAC address of the Sky router - is this what is written underneath it?
I can see the wisdom of fastening this up to limit support calls but I sure wish they'd offer a "we don't support this but here are the settings, use at your own risk" option!

[Scubbie]

Curiously enough it still shows service fail but actually works now - go figure!

Weird.

Someone mentioned ghosting the MAC address of the Sky router - is this what is written underneath it?

The MAC address underneath is normally the LAN MAC address. If you want to spoof the MAC address to fool the Sky servers, then it would be the WAN MAC address.

I can see the wisdom of fastening this up to limit support calls but I sure wish they'd offer a "we don't support this but here are the settings, use at your own risk" option!

Why? Other ISPs support other routers all the time and with an excellent reputation.