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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>See below<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> -----Original Message-----<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> From: plug-bounces@plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces@plug.org.au] On Behalf<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Of Bret Busby<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Sent: Thursday, 24 March 2011 1:19 PM<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> To: plug@plug.org.au<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Subject: Re: [plug] Query about gateway computer settings<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> On 24/03/2011, Fred Janon <fjanon@yahoo.com> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> > Not sure if you are now using the SpeedStream or a new one.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> > Personnally I had a lot easier time as soon as I dropped the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> > Speedstream and used another one. The speedstream is a very cheap unit<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> > made eons ago and with custom firmware for Bigpond and others. No<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> > manual and most likely not much testing of the custom firmware outside<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> > a set config. It seems too that you got your config to work with<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> > another modem so I would suggest you use another modem (anyway).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> > Fred<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> ><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> We are at present using the Netgear modem, as we could not get the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Speedstream modem working again.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> I do not care which of the modems we end up using, as long as I can get the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> modem that we use, to work as before, with a gateway firewall computer<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> connected to the LAN, with static IP addresses within the LAN<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Configure your modem using <a href="http://192.168.0.1/setup.cgi?next_file=mode.htm">http://192.168.0.1/setup.cgi?next_file=mode.htm</a> and set it to modem mode.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Set the encapsulation type according to <a href="http://help.optuszoo.com.au/help/dsl/connected/windows/modemwvista/speedstream_eth">http://help.optuszoo.com.au/help/dsl/connected/windows/modemwvista/speedstream_eth</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Then configure the linux box to do PPPoE using the rest of the settings on that page.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Both modems have Administration Guides published and available on the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Internet.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Modem mode is an undocumented “feature” of the Netgear DG models<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> A major problem that is evident, is that Optus, in having directed me to erase<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> the settings in the Speedstream modem, refused to provide the required<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> settings to make it work again with the connection to Optus, as it had before.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> The problem lies with the ISP, whose actions in this, are the same in nature, to<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> phoning an automobile association, like the RAC or the NRMA or the AA, to fix<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> a puncture, then the patrolman comes out and removes all of the wheels from<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> the car, then looks at the car, says "Get stuffed - it is a Subaru, and I am not a<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Subaru mechanic, so I will not help you further", and leaves the car sitting on<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> the roadside, with no wheels attached, and then the automobile association,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> when contacted about this, says "It is not our problem", and refuses to resolve<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> the issue.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> I still do not know whether the Speedstream modem is fully physically<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> functional - I can connect to it, using the gateway computer, and can access the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> web interface on it, for configuring it, but Optus refuses to provide me with the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> settings that are needed to make it work as it had worked before the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> electricity failure.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> The Speedstream 4200 modem was not supplied to us by Optus, but it is a<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> modem model that had been supplied by Optus to ADSL customers for<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> connecting to the Internet, so they should have knowledge of how to configure<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> the modem, and, until the electricity supply failure, the modem had been<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> working successfully with our gateway/firewall server and the LAN, and the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Optus ADSL connection, and Optus had the settings that made it work, erased,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> and refused to supply the settings required to make it work again.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> So, it is, I think, not an issue of the reliability of the particular ADSL modem<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> model, or, the lack of an Administration Guide for the particular modem model<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> - regarding the modem's current status, it is due solely, now, to the actions of<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> the ISP, in erasing the settings that made the modem work, and refusing to<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> provide the settings required to make the modem work again as it had before,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> after the ISP had those settings erased.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> --<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Bret Busby<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Armadale<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> West Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> ..............<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> answer means."<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> - Deep Thought,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Chapter 28 of Book 1 of<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> A Trilogy In Four Parts",<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> written by Douglas Adams,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> published by Pan Books, 1992<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> ....................................................<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> _______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> PLUG discussion list: plug@plug.org.au<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> http://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Committee e-mail: committee@plug.linux.org.au<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>