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Re: aint TPG/NBN wifi just wonderful? attn: Rod Speed

From "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups aus.computers
Subject Re: aint TPG/NBN wifi just wonderful? attn: Rod Speed
Date 2017-09-08 16:58 +1000
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"felix" <felix@real_felix.invalid> wrote in message 
news:f1emcuF5mquU1@mid.individual.net...
> On 8/09/2017 1:50 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
>>
>>
>> "felix" <felix@real_felix.invalid> wrote in message 
>> news:f1ed70F3rf4U1@mid.individual.net...
>>> On 8/09/2017 11:37 AM, Rod Speed wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "felix" <felix@real_felix.invalid> wrote in message 
>>>> news:f1e7kdF2nnnU1@mid.individual.net...
>>>>> On 8/09/2017 2:15 AM, Rod Speed wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "felix" <felix@real_felix.invalid> wrote in message 
>>>>>> news:f1cmfaFm7pnU1@mid.individual.net...
>>>>>>> On 7/09/2017 5:16 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "felix" <felix@real_felix.invalid> wrote in message 
>>>>>>>> news:f1c8rdFj52mU1@mid.individual.net...
>>>>>>>>> On 7/09/2017 4:08 PM, felix wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 7/09/2017 3:11 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> "felix" <felix@real_felix.invalid> wrote in message 
>>>>>>>>>>> news:f1bs6mFghc0U1@mid.individual.net...
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/09/2017 3:38 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> "felix" <felix@real_felix.invalid> wrote in message 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> news:f16jgtFa2e0U1@mid.individual.net...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/09/2017 1:15 PM, felix wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> getting virtually no internet response in the workshop 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (about 30 metres from the house) so ran a speed test - 0.10 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mbps download! (upload was much faster, if that makes any 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> sense). I will have to install a repeater. however, speed 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> close to the modem/router was not much better, just 2.9 mbps 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> download - http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6597490287.png. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> pathetic! (and once again, upload is faster) I'll have to 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> see if I can get the settings off TPG and try that MR modem. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> but note my speed is 'faster than 53% of Oz'. what a joke 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> our internet service is!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> sorry, that's wifi speed I'm referring to. (ethernet speed is 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> around 17 to  23 mbps on the 25 mbps plan)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yeah, that’s the steaming turd of a modem that TPG supply.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi. I got the following settings from TPG to use the MR modem:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Username: <your TPG username>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Password:  <your TPG Password>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Protocol / Encapsulation / Connection Type: PPPoE (sometimes, 
>>>>>>>>>>>> you'll have PPPoE LLC)
>>>>>>>>>>>> Multiplex: LLC
>>>>>>>>>>>> VPI: 8
>>>>>>>>>>>> VCI: 35
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I have connected the MR modem to the PC but not the net, and I 
>>>>>>>>>>>> can't see where to enter them: 
>>>>>>>>>>>> http://austek.net/pics/MR_modem_config.PNG
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> can you please help?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Can you logon on to the router ?  Its pretty obvious when you 
>>>>>>>>>>> have done
>>>>>>>>>>> that. You'll find that you only need to set the username and 
>>>>>>>>>>> password.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> yes, I have logged in (as per the photo I supplied above), but I 
>>>>>>>>>> thought I had to configure the modem with more than just the 
>>>>>>>>>> username and password (as per the info supplied by TPG above) ?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I connected it to the NBN box, but I can't see anywhere to put in 
>>>>>>>>> a username and password
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Its in the Internet Access box as the manuals tell you.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You do realise that you have to click on the box to see the fields 
>>>>>>>> you put the data into don’t you ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Of course, and I had checked them all. but there's no 
>>>>>>> username/password field in the Internet Access box, viz: 
>>>>>>> http://austek.net/pics/MRinternet_access.JPG
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> all I see is the orange 'connecting' led. you said your mates used 
>>>>>>> this modem with an ADSL connection, but maybe it won't connect using 
>>>>>>> the NBN?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Read the fucking manual you posted, the bit about username and 
>>>>>> password.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I had/have, but as I said clicking 'Internet Access' does not bring up 
>>>>> a username/password box. obviously MR have configured this modem 
>>>>> specific to their service.
>>>>
>>>> How odd that two of my mates managed it fine,
>>
>>> it is, but they were on adsl.
>>
>> Irrelevant to the fact that they must have been able to enter
>> the usename and password to have used the modem on dodo.
>>
>>>> even if you're too stupid to be able to manage that.
>>>>
>>>> The manual says
>>>>
>>>>    Under Internet Access, check the status of your Internet connection.
>>>>    If it is not connected, click Internet Access, enter the Username 
>>>> and
>>>>    Password for your Internet connection and then click Save.
>>
>>> and as I've said, that does not happen. that does not bring up any entry 
>>> fields
>>
>> When you click on the blue words Internet Access when you can see the
>> status after you have clicked on the banner of the card on the main page
>> labelled Internet Access and have the connection status displayed ?
>
> there's nothing to clik on, no 'blue words' viz: 
> http://austek.net/pics/MRinternet_access.JPG

OK, purple, at the top.

> the modem does not connect to the internet, it just stays on 'connecting'.

Because it has already connect at the physical level and is trying to get an 
ip.

> I think maybe because it's programmed to only connect to MR,

You're wrong about that, it connected fine to the dodo services.

> and the port on the NBN box only goes to TPG?

>> You sure you are connecting to the TPG service, with the
>> modem plugged into the correct port on the NBN box ?

> yes, as I just pull the lead from then TPG modem and plug it into the MR 
> modem

>> If so, try it with the modem not actually connect to anything,
>> maybe it doesn’t bring that up if you are already connected.

> had already tried that

With a power cycling of the modem with it not plugged into anything ?

>>>>> I had also tried resetting it but that didn't change anything. and 
>>>>> according to this link the modem is locked to MR: 
>>>>> http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2646118
>>>>
>>>> That’s saying that the FIRMWARE is locked, fuckwit.
>>>>
>>>> Both of my mates used theirs on their
>>>> dodo service before the cutover to fttn.
 

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