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Trying to watch an HD movie (planesTV in HD) and failing, presumably because my connection was not fast enough, I swapped out the connection, bypassing the router expecting there would be some improvement.
It made no difference, checked the speed at that point; the speed test showed around 1000kbps with the router and around 2000kbps without it (as before).
What gives? does a speed test bear any relationship to the actual online experience?
Geoff |
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| reply to hefy_jefy
1. If the DSL modem is tossing out DHCP leases directly, you don't need the MAC address cloned. That's typically used for cable modems in my experience, and that's only with specific ISP's.
2. Is the DSL modem handing out PUBLIC IP's or PRIVATE IP's? Is your router getting 192.168.x.x, 10.x.x.x, 172.x.x.x as an IP? If so, you should NOT be using the router as a "router/gateway"; you are then using double-NAT, which can cause all kinds of exciting issues such as speed problems, disconnects and the like.
So, assuming #2 is the case, and your DSL modem is giving you a private IP address, your options are:
A) Setup the DSL modem to run in bridged mode, with the WRT160N performing PPPoE and obtaining an external IP directly.
B) Setup the router as a glorified AP/switch.
-Set the WAN interface to a static IP, assign it an IP in a subnet OUTSIDE of any that you plan on using (like 10.10.10.2, /24 mask (255.255.255.0), gateway of 10.10.10.1),
-assign it a LAN IP inside the subnet that the DSL modem is using (ideally outside the DHCP scope that the DSL modem is using, but this is going to depend on what you have for configuration options on the DSL modem) such as 192.168.1.254 if the DSL modem is using a private subnet of 192.168.1.0/24.
-Disable the DHCP server on the WRT160N
-Plug the DSL modem into one of the LAN ports on the WRT160N and DO NOT use the WAN port. |
| Hi,
The reason for cloning the MAC address was that I could not get a connection, as soon as I cloned the MAC address of the original PC used to set the account up things came back to life.
As mentioned I tried solution A - but B sounds like a possibility I guess DHCP needs to be on the modem, with the router just used as a switch and to provide the wireless connection when needed.
Will give it a try - thanks!
-G- |
