Selected ISP Support > Earthlink DSL > [Home Networking] DSL out after EL maintenance - bridge mode doe

reply to Doctor Olds

Re: [Home Networking] DSL out after EL maintenance - bridge mode

You set the ZyXEL to Bridge Mode while hooked up to a single PC. Then put the single PC into the Netgear LAN port 1 and the Netgear WAN port into the DSL Modem Ethernet port. Now then you would setup your Netgear to handle PPPoE with only your Earthlink Username (full email address) and Password. All optional fields you leave blank or at their default values like "Service Name", "Host Name, "Domain Name". Finally add custom DNS IPs and Apply the changes.

Here is an example image.

reply to paunch
I'm not sure you have done anything wrong. I had the same problems you did, but got a singe connection to work earlier today, 6/20/09. Now, I cannot get any Internet connection, but the diagnostics say I am properly connected to the ISP.

The diagnostics were all Mac OS X 10.5.7 system tools, but the readings were not consistent. Now, all is well. I found a fix late last night.

Again, everything was working fine before June 15, then Earthlink did some unspecified system upgrade, and I no longer had a connection thereafter. Like Paunch, I previously set the ZyXEL P-660 (mine was -R ELNK model) DSL modem in bridge mode. Previously, in my computer's network settings, I had manually specified each individual computer's IP address because using DHCP on my LANs would not work. Earthlink techs could not determine the problem in mid-June, even with changing those settings from manual to DHCP. Last night, on my own, I changed the MODEM settings back to Routing mode, changed the Mac OS X network settings to DHCP (which, again, would not consistently function properly before last week if set to DHCP) and then I reset my new N+Belkin wireless router for "Dynamic IP" guided set up, rather than the "PPPoE" setting in the guided set up that Belkin recommended for Earthlink. I cycled the power and everything suddenly worked perfectly.

I think that previously there was some erroneous setting in my Mac OS X network preferences that the Earthlink techs did not know about, and I couldn't find on my own. Belkin's guided set up software apparently cleared that problem, and, then, the other settings Earthlink recommended worked fine.

reply to Doctor Olds
P.S. to June 22, 2009 posting. My DSL modem is no longer in bridge mode as indicated by the green "Internet" light, as you correctly pointed out on June 14. Nevertheless, the DSL connection is functioning properly with my router, and now with an Apple Airport router working with it.

reply to Huduwaque
You can setup multiple Routers in a bunch of different ways as long as only "one" Router is handing the PPPoE authentication (all router from that point back in toward the PCs will use either DHCP or Static IP assignment depending on the users preferences and skills) however, that makes opening services to the Internet very complicated and sometimes painful because you have to map though extra Routers that a normal home or small office LAN setup would not have. What most people don't know is that all the ZyXEL P660R DSL Modems from Earthlink are Full Routers and are ready support up to 32 PCs in their Default DHCP settings from Earthlink (you simply supply a port duplicator aka a 10/100 Multi-port Switch to create a LAN.) They are called "2 in 1" devices as they contain a DSL Modem (ADSL2+ support in fact) and a Router all in one case.

Interesting. Thanks.