[Watford] Router problems

[Peter Grant]

Your two third party, non-ISP routers need settings to access the internet.

These include setting the modulation to PPPoA Vc-Mux, the VPI/VCI to
0/38 (by memory, but this you might need to check with your provider
who will tell you if you ask directly.)
You will also need to enter a username and password, the username
being in the format of an email address, but probably not an actual
email address! You provider can (and will) supply these details.

I would also suggest that MAC address based filtering is not really
very secure, and does not encrypt the traffic so it leaves private
information accessible.

I´m not surprised by the ISP response, I have heard: ¨We don support
Linux¨ ¨Oh, yes Android, we support that¨
Peter

"When you have a Swiss Army knife of a mind, everything looks like it
should be dismantled." Danny O'Brien/Merlin Mann



On 28 January 2012 10:11, M Fernandes <myitpartneruk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> I'm surprised at the TalkTalk response, because most (if not all) routers
> run a form of Linux.
>
> I'm also unsyre what you mean when you say you ran "desperation 1 & 2"...
>
> When there was no connection to the internet, were some lights not running
> on the routers? I suspect that the issue is/was more serviced-based rather
> than router-based, because you got the same response with two different
> routers.
>
> Mike
>
> On 27 Jan 2012 22:24, "Alan Secker" <alansecker0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I had been using a four port Netgear DG834GT 108MB ADSL router for about a
>> year,
>> replacing a Linksys WAG54GS because the latter require a manual reboot
>>  after a
>> brown-out.  It had been my daughter's but she no longer had a need for it.
>> (Sorry,
>> too much information).
>>
>> Anyway, last night I wanted to prevent unwanted intrusion via the wifi. I
>> had never
>> restricted access for specified MAC addresses following a re-designed
>> arrangement following a business move.
>>
>> Netgear default to 192.168.0.1 for firmware access. When I got in, the
>> wireless
>> settings page would not come up. Eventually I set it back to factory
>> defaults and
>> for a while could not get back in. When I did, I reset all the settings
>> but could not
>> gain connection to the Internet.
>>
>> I ran desperation version 1 and substituted the Linksys. Exactly the same
>> problem.
>>
>> Finally after faffing about like chicken without the proverbial head, I
>> upgraded to
>> desperation version 2.
>>
>> I called my provider TalkTalk. They don't support Linux and they don't
>> support any
>> routers other than the one-port job that they provide.
>>
>> Mine was in the loft. To be fair, the call centre guy no 2 (the first one
>> got cut off
>> after 20 minutes) was patient and waited. I connected the router, switched
>> on the
>> power and it came up with no set-up required. What's more I had access to
>> the
>> Internet,
>>
>> So now unless I can get these two four-port jobs to play ball I am
>> stuffed. I need
>> those four ports!
>>
>>
>>
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