MSOs can reserve SSIDs for hotspots, guest access, and other applications
To do this on a Windows machine, you need to open a Command Prompt (type cmd at the run/search programs box if you can’t find it). These include WPA/WPA2, WPS, and SPI Firewall Many updates and changes to the TG582n cannot be made via the GUI so need to be done via the CLI (Command Line Interface) and to do this you need to connect to the modem via Telnet.
High Speed – The DDW365 delivers increased bandwidth for subscribers’ multimedia and high-bandwidth applications (up to 343Mbps downstream, 122Mbps upstream).Neither I nor the really helpful support guy at Plusnet can see a way to turn off DHCP on the Technicolour short of Telnet by the way - there doesn't appear to be an easy box to be unticked as suggested by one of the posters above.
I'm afraid although I've worked with PCs for 20 years I'm not technical enough to get my head round the PDF to sufficient degree to work it out for myself. either/or/and turning off DHCP on the Technicolour/'enabling' Bridge mode. How would I go about testing my two theories - i.e.
I am about to send the Access Point back and just get a Wireless card for the PC instead but this kind of defeats the object and so I thought I'd ask here to see if anyone had any better ideas. I have tried every permutation I can think of in terms of turning off DHCP on the Access Point, giving the PC a fixed IP address and so on but none of those seem to work either. I suspect one of two things is happening: either the Technicolour Router needs a bridging mode activating or I need to disable the DHCP server on the Technicolour router and enable it on the Access Point instead. BUT I can't access the Internet from the PC. So, for example, in Client mode I can get onto the Technicolour router setup page from my PC or onto the Access Point setup page from the laptop. With some of these I can get the two devices talking together such that, for example, I can access the other device via the PC or a wirelessly connected laptop. It can be set up in Access Point mode, Client Mode or Repeater Mode (plus a couple of others that aren't really relevant). I have tried every option I can think of on the Access Point to get it to connect to the Technicolour but can't get it to connect to the Internet. Other the other side of the room is a PC to which I had connected (over wired Ethernet) a TP-Link Wireless N Access Point (TL-WA901ND). Several wireless devices connecting quite happily to this and then on to the Internet beyond. So, config is: Fibre modem with wired connection to Technicolour Wireless Router. My main PC is over the other side of the room and for various boring reasons it wasn't possible to set the router up on that side of the room and so I was instead just going to link to it with a Wireless Access Point but I cannot get it working properly.
If that's the case then just leave out the encaps=vcmux from the atm ifconfig commandįirst post here so be gentle with me! One of the support guys just pointed me towards this post as a possible fix for something I'm trying to do but I'm struggling to get my head round how to apply this to my particular situation. It will be interesting to hear if that works.Įdit: just looked a little further at the template file for the TG585 here and I'm not sure the Encapsulation needs changing. I would assume that if it all goes horribly wrong then a factory reset ought to put it back to square one.
The first 5 commands clear any existing default configuration and then subsequent ones set up the new Bridged PPPoE connection. I've modified the commands from those shown in the example to reflect a VPI/VCI of 0/38 and an Encapsulation of VCMUX as required for PlusNet.Ītm phonebook add name=BrPPPoE_ph addr=0.38Ītm ifconfig intf=BrPPPoE_atm dest=BrPPPoE_ph encaps=vcmux ulp=macĮth bridge ifconfig intf=BrPPPoE_br dest=BrPPPoE_atm So I believe you need to issue the following commands using the CLI. It's actually pretty good at explaining the internal logical connections inside the router and how to use the CLI to produce different From what I can see from that document you need the Bridged PPPoE configuration as described in Chapter 4. Which describes how to use the Speedtouch CLI to produce various none default configurations.