{"id":1404,"date":"2025-01-13T11:53:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T16:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2025-01-15T06:40:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T11:40:59","slug":"bridge-mode-for-the-bell-hh2000-modem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/bridge-mode-for-the-bell-hh2000-modem\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridge Mode for the Bell HH1000 \/ HH2000 Modems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I use Unifi gear pretty much exclusively for home networking, and hate using ISP-provided hardware for anything other than a modem. We recently took over a small business that include a Bell contract for internet services (and boy do they fuck you), and that included their HH2000 Modem. Their customer support insisted you couldn&#8217;t put it into bridge mode, and that is a lie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is all kinds of shit advice on the internets, but <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.redflagdeals.com\/please-sticky-how-bypass-bell-hub-use-your-own-router-1993629\/3\/\">this one was gold<\/a>, and I am reproducing it here in case it ever gets taken down, and have added a little more info to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I recently had tons of troubles setting up Bell with my own router and I failed miserably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, I was lucky enough to get a hold of someone very technical (<strong>THANK YOU Katie!<\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Basically, in order to&nbsp;<strong>bypass Bell hub 1000\/2000&nbsp;<\/strong>you need to disable it and turn it into bridge mode; by doing the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NOTE: I had Internet ONLY. Ymmv if you&#8217;re using a phone connected to Bell&#8217;s modem (I haven&#8217;t tested so can&#8217;t stand by whether it works or not if the Internet service is bridged) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to do it, you&#8217;ll need to login to your Bell router to disable its wireless networking. You&#8217;ll also need your PPoE username and password, which must also be configured with your 3rd party router using PPPoE. This should be with your signup info, but if you&#8217;ve lost it, you&#8217;ll need to contact bell support to reset it if you&#8217;re an SMB customer, or use your Bell web portal if you&#8217;re a residnetial customer to reset the password. Ok, here&#8217;s what you do:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Configure your third-party router to use PPPoE on the WAN port (vs. DHCP or other) using your bell username and password. With our SMB service my username was my b* username (on your bill), but I needed to add @bellnet.ca to it for it to authenticate\/start service up)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Plug your third-party router WAN port into LAN Port 1 on the Bell router<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Disable the wireless network and WPS on your Bell router<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When you&#8217;re ready to flip the HH2000 to bridge mode, press the Brightness and Reset buttons on the front of the modem\/router for about 20 seconds (3rd button and the reset button) until the power button turns purple<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The web interface will no longer be accessible, and you should be in bridge mode<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, this will disable everything and then you will have to setup PPOE in your own router. (YES you still need their hub for it to work &#8211; confirmed, it will not work without the Bell hardware, despite being an ethernet connection on prem. Fibre connects are different, this is not the page you want for that.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Username is provided by bell&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/support.bell.ca\/Internet\/Connection-help\/I-need-to-know-my-username-and-password\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/support.bell.ca\/Internet\/Connect &#8230; d-password<\/a>, and it&#8217;s on your bill as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>username: b1abcd12 (sometimes you need to add @bellnet.ca)<br>password: whatever you set it to at mybell.ca<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>In case you screw up or cable doesn&#8217;t work, you can enable it back by pressing reset + wps + password buttons at the same time for 20 seconds.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use Unifi gear pretty much exclusively for home networking, and hate using ISP-provided hardware for anything other than a modem. We recently took over a small business that include a Bell contract for internet services (and boy do they fuck you), and that included their HH2000 Modem. Their customer support insisted you couldn&#8217;t put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1406,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/1406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}