[H-GEN] tplink td8840 & bigpond

[Matthew Franklin]

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> mick wrote:
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>> Tell me what what info you need and I'll do my best to provide it. I got as 
>> far as the Advanced Setup --> WAN menu and find I don't understand the setting 
>> options, E.G.:
>>
>> VPI/VCI	|Con. ID |Category  |	Service  |Interface    |	Protocol  |
>>    8/35   |	1     |    UBR    | 	br_8_35|ppp_8_35_1|	PPPoE |  
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>> I currently have 1500/256 ADSL with bigpond but plan to upgrade to ADSL2 when 
>> I get this sorted and find a ISP/plan that suits.
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> You shouldn't need to tweak any of those unless it's not working. Just 
> put in your usename and password where required and if you're not using 
> wireless networking you shouldn't need to do anything else.
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1st make sure that the modem is connected. You should know that by the 
adsl light being on. It will flash if it's trying to get connected.
If that's not on then you need to check the user name and password. 
sometimes these modems require a bit of playing around to make them save 
information. Persist. For the user name you may need to try a few 
combinations  say username at bigpond.com
or just username or username at bigpond or username at bigpond.net.au. I have 
found their servers sometimes picky about the exact combination. Next if 
your using multiple pc's (this includes Apple and Linux) use dhcp and 
NAT. Also unless you have a good reason keep the pc's set to 
"automatically obtain ip address and DNS" (Windows) or DHCP which means 
the same thing. That way you allow the modem to chose the IP addresses 
and you should run into problems with accidentally having 2 pc's on the 
same IP address.

See if that works Matt.