Information about using your own router

O2 Home Broadband comes with the O2 wireless box. It's a fully-featured wireless router which has been designed to work specifically with O2 Home Broadband. We recommend you use the O2 wireless box because it's easy to set up, and we can offer comprehensive help if you run into any problems.

Having said that, you're welcome to use your own router with O2 Home Broadband if you want to. Just bear in mind that if you do this, we can't offer support if anything goes wrong. It's not that we don't want to – it would just be really difficult for us to learn how every single router works.

If you do want to use your own router, you need to make sure it can work with ADSL2+. That's the technology we use to get such high connection speeds into your home.

You'll also need to enter some settings into your router. You can get these from the previous FAQ above this one: 'How to set up O2 Home Broadband on your own router'.