How To Get The Motorola 2210-02 To Work With A Linksys Router

Here’s another situation of a modem manufacturer making life much more complicated than it needs to be in order to interface it with a router.

Usually it’s a fairly simple process to interface the two devices: Connect the modem’s internet port to the router’s WAN port and then connect one of the router’s ports to the PC.

If the modem is DSL, then you may have to put the username and password in the router and set it to PPPoe.

That’s about it.

However, with the Motorola 2210-02 you need to do one more step. In the modem you need to set it for “PPP On Computer” so that the username and password information is retrieved from the router rather than the modem.

Also, depending upon your router you may have to change it’s IP address if it has a conflict with the modem’s IP which is 192.168.1.254. Using 192.168.0.x or 192.168.2.x for the router should work fine.