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| Thread ID: 88667 | 2008-04-04 23:58:00 | Routers, Bridges and Tomatoes. (Equipment recommendation) | Zygar (29) | Press F1 |
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| 656072 | 2008-04-04 23:58:00 | I bought a WRT54GL and flashed it with Tomato, and spent a couple of hours tearing my hair out trying to get it to play nice with my Allied Telesyn AR250E . I've learned since that due to the state of NZ's internet, (PPPoA :( )I need to enable half-bridge mode in order to get everything working nicely, and I suspect this is something that my old router doesn't support . Before I go and shell out $80 for a new modem, I'd like to know if half-bridge mode might be called something else, (does it have any other common names? I've seen "IP extension" thrown about in some guides but not been able to find that in my router's CLI . ) Here ( . co . nz/images/pc/pieceofcrap . png" target="_blank">zygar . co . nz) is the command line interface, and it's not even worth screenshotting the web interface, which is the worst I've ever had the misfortune of using . If I do have to get a new modem/router, what is a good value model that supports half-bridge mode? The Dynalink RTA1320? What other modems have people had good experiences with? The only thing that I like about my AR250E is that I'm not on a great line (about 3km from the exchange according to Telecom but I can't access my line stats . . . again its firmware is an utter joke) but I can still sync at about 4 . 5 mbits with interleaving off, and it's really, really stable . So what are my options for half-bridge/IP-extension supporting routers? Cheers . |
Zygar (29) | ||
| 656073 | 2008-04-05 02:15:00 | What are you using to connect to the net? Allied Telesyn AR250E or WRT54GL? Cause the WRT does not have a modem part to it, so you will not be able to connect it to the internet. Who is your ISP? If you are using the Allied Telesyn AR250E, have you been able to connect to the net with it before? What is the exact setup you are trying to achieve? And what is the pppoa option in the screenshot? Is that from the WRT54GL or the AR250E I user DD-WRT in my WRT54GL and it is great :D |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 656074 | 2008-04-05 03:33:00 | What are you using to connect to the net? Allied Telesyn AR250E or WRT54GL? Cause the WRT does not have a modem part to it, so you will not be able to connect it to the internet. I'm aware of the WRT being just a router. :) The AR250E works fine for connecting to the internet and acting as a router, I've had it for years and it was a decent router with a crap interface. I bought a WRT54GL because I want better QoS control, the ability to SSH into the router from an external site, etc. Who is your ISP? My isp is Xnet, but I don't think it matters because I'm not aware of any DSL isps in NZ which do PPPoE. If there were, I'd be able to pop my AR250E into full-bridge mode and it wouldn't be an issue. And what is the pppoa option in the screenshot? Is that from the WRT54GL or the AR250E That's from the AR250E, I had a play around in there before and the only useful looking list of commands was this. (zygar.co.nz) What is the exact setup you are trying to achieve? Internet -> half-bridge mode modem-router -> Router -> Gigabit Switch -> 4 PCs, an Xbox and a NAS. Basically, I want my old modem/router to handle ONLY connecting to the internet, and of course modulating/de-modulating ;) I don't want the AR250E to use any of the routing features (NAT etc) at all, leaving it to the WRT54GL (Aka, half-bridge mode/IP extension.) I user DD-WRT in my WRT54GL and it is great What dsl modem do you have hooked up to your router? (Or are you on cable :( ) EDIT: This describes what I want to do perfectly, www.ben.geek.nz and if as I suspect my AR250E doesn't support half-bridge mode I'll toss it and get a new modem, I'm just shopping around for modem recommendations here really. If I can get the AR250E to play nice and save some money, so much the better. |
Zygar (29) | ||
| 656075 | 2008-04-05 05:27:00 | I'm aware of the WRT being just a router. :) The AR250E works fine for connecting to the internet and acting as a router, I've had it for years and it was a decent router with a crap interface. I bought a WRT54GL because I want better QoS control, the ability to SSH into the router from an external site, etc.Well I can't see much info on that modem to suggest that it supports what you want to do. That's from the AR250E, I had a play around in there before and the only useful looking list of commands was this. (zygar.co.nz) OK, and it doesn't really have anything relevant.. Internet -> half-bridge mode modem-router -> Router -> Gigabit Switch -> 4 PCs, an Xbox and a NAS.OK, I see. What dsl modem do you have hooked up to your router? (Or are you on cable :( )I have a Linksys WAG54G connected to the WRT54GL which is running as a switch. EDIT: This describes what I want to do perfectly, www.ben.geek.nz and if as I suspect my AR250E doesn't support half-bridge mode I'll toss it and get a new modem, I'm just shopping around for modem recommendations here really. If I can get the AR250E to play nice and save some money, so much the better. As far as I can see, it doesn't. But the Linksys AM300 (www.ascent.co.nz) does :D |
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