Re: Netgear Router settings ?
- From: "pmj" <post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:01:57 GMT
"Aries" <notme@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Can a techie - Smokey do look <g>
I'm not Smokey, but I had a look anyway!
:-)
- please look at these settings and let me know if they are OK ?
http://www.copelands.plus.com/Netgear/
They seem (broadly) OK...
You've blanked out the WiFi SSID (Service Set IDentifier) from the
Screenshot in one of them, but left it visible in another.
That doesn't matter though, cos (even when you have it Set not to be
Broadcast & yours *is* Set to be Broadcast) anybody can find out the
SSID of your (or anybody's) WiFi Network very easily - it *isn't* any
real form of Security. All the SSID does is to show up as a Name in the
"List of available WiFi Networks" on anything that's nearby & if the
SSID isn't Set to be Broadcast, then it means anybody wanting to Connect
to it just has to Type it in.
But the important thing is to Enable the WiFi Security (Encryption)
Options, which you have done.
But you've chosen just WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) & only 64 Bit WEP.
WEP isn't actually very Secure & anybody who really wants to can soon
get around it.
WPA-PSK (TKIP) - WiFi Protected Access-Pre Shared Key (Temporal Key
Encryption) is *much* more Secure & you should use that were ever
possible.
But using WPA assumes the WiFi stuff, such as your Laptop, does support
WPA, which it should do, if you're using WinXP SP2 & the built-in
Laptop WiFi thingy is fairly recent.
You've enabled a DMZ (DeMilitarised Zone) & allocated one of the
IP Addresses of a Computer in your Network to it.
Why have you done that?
You shouldn't need to use any DMZ & if you do use one, you need to
be aware that any Computer in the DMZ will be directly accessible
from the Internet, with no Protection from the Firewall in the Router.
It's much better, if any of the Computers in your Network do need to
be accessible from the Internet, to just use the NAT (Network Address
Translation) Port Forwarding on the Router to allow just the required
Ports to be Forwarded to the Computer that needs them.
Anyway, none of all that is really relevant, when it comes to the
actual Internet Connection of the Router itself, which seems to be
your main prob at the mo?
So, *first* you need to make sure that the ADSL Synch Light is on.
Until it's on (which means the ADSL Modem has Synchronised OK with
the ADSL Line), then none of the other ISP/Internet Connection Settings
will matter.
When you've got it Synching OK, then you should make sure that you
have the various ISP Connection details Entered correctly.
In the first ScreenShot, you have Set the ISP DropDown thingy to
"other"? - What Details are Set there?
On the 2nd ScreenShot, it shows that it's Set to use PPPoE (Point to
Point Protocol over Ethernet) - I don't think that's right.
Most UK ISPs (including PlusNet) use PPPoA (Point to Point Protocol
over ATM) & not PPPoE.
The Settings needed to Connect to PlusNet ADSL are shown on their
WebSite Help & Support Pages...
http://portal.plus.net/support/broadband/help_and_setup/connections_settings.shtml
But like I said, none of that actually matters unless (& until) you
have got the ADSL Line itself Synching OK with the ADSL Modem in the
Router.
HTH
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pmj
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