[plug] Query about gateway computer settings

[Craig Foster]

See below



> -----Original Message-----

> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf

> Of Bret Busby

> Sent: Thursday, 24 March 2011 1:19 PM

> To: plug at plug.org.au

> Subject: Re: [plug] Query about gateway computer settings

>

> On 24/03/2011, Fred Janon <fjanon at yahoo.com> wrote:

> > Not sure if you are now using the SpeedStream or a new one.

> > Personnally I had a lot easier time as soon as I dropped the

> > Speedstream and used another one. The speedstream is a very cheap unit

> > made eons ago and with custom firmware for Bigpond and others. No

> > manual and most likely not much testing of the custom firmware outside

> > a set config. It seems too that you got your config to work with

> > another modem so I would suggest you use another modem (anyway).

> > Fred

> >

>

> We are at present using the Netgear modem, as we could not get the

> Speedstream modem working again.

>

> I do not care which of the modems we end up using, as long as I can get the

> modem that we use, to work as before, with a gateway firewall computer

> connected to the LAN, with static IP addresses within the LAN

Configure your modem using http://192.168.0.1/setup.cgi?next_file=mode.htm and set it to modem mode.

Set the encapsulation type according to http://help.optuszoo.com.au/help/dsl/connected/windows/modemwvista/speedstream_eth



Then configure the linux box to do PPPoE using the rest of the settings on that page.



> Both modems have Administration Guides published and available on the

> Internet.



Modem mode is an undocumented "feature" of the Netgear DG models

> A major problem that is evident, is that Optus, in having directed me to erase

> the settings in the Speedstream modem, refused to provide the required

> settings to make it work again with the connection to Optus, as it had before.

>

> The problem lies with the ISP, whose actions in this, are the same in nature, to

> phoning an automobile association, like the RAC or the NRMA or the AA, to fix

> a puncture, then the patrolman comes out and removes all of the wheels from

> the car, then looks at the car, says "Get stuffed - it is a Subaru, and I am not a

> Subaru mechanic, so I will not help you further", and leaves the car sitting on

> the roadside, with no wheels attached, and then the automobile association,

> when contacted about this, says "It is not our problem", and refuses to resolve

> the issue.

>

> I still do not know whether the Speedstream modem is fully physically

> functional - I can connect to it, using the gateway computer, and can access the

> web interface on it, for configuring it, but Optus refuses to provide me with the

> settings that are needed to make it work  as it had worked before the

> electricity failure.

>

> The Speedstream 4200 modem was not supplied to us by Optus, but it is a

> modem model that had been supplied by Optus to ADSL customers for

> connecting to the Internet, so they should have knowledge of how to configure

> the modem, and, until the electricity supply failure, the modem had been

> working successfully with our gateway/firewall server and the LAN,  and the

> Optus ADSL connection, and Optus had the settings that made it work, erased,

> and refused to supply the settings required to make it work again.

>

> So, it is, I think, not an issue of the reliability of the particular ADSL modem

> model, or, the lack of an Administration Guide for the particular modem model

> - regarding the modem's current status, it is due solely, now, to the actions of

> the ISP, in erasing the settings that made the modem work, and refusing to

> provide the settings required to make the modem work again as it had before,

> after the ISP had those settings erased.

>

> --

> Bret Busby

> Armadale

> West Australia

> ..............

>

> "So once you do know what the question actually is,  you'll know what the

> answer means."

> - Deep Thought,

>  Chapter 28 of Book 1 of

>  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

>  A Trilogy In Four Parts",

>  written by Douglas Adams,

>  published by Pan Books, 1992

>

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