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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:17:09 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>anybody know if BT DNS servers are vulnerable?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20847124</link>
<description><![CDATA[Wondering if BT is still vulnerable to the DNS bug that was announced a couple weeks ago. Would a few BT users please use the "Check my DNS" test at http://www.doxpara.com/ (see button to the right) and post results here? Please include the IP address of the DNS server that was tested.

Thanks]]></description>
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<pubDate>2008-07-25 11:13:17</pubDate>
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<title>BT offers to &#x27;speed up broadband&#x27;</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20625980</link>
<description><![CDATA[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7446999.stm

So, how long do you reckon before the other ISP's, who are dependant upon BT's last mile, smell a rat and report this to the competition commission?

Surely this is tantamount to saying we've always known we could do better but have chosen not to?

Interesting it follows off the back of this report last week...

Action urged on broadband future 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7440246.stm

[Ed] Hey State! Here's one for the FAQ's taken form the end of the first article above...

BT Wholesale is about to launch a product, known as an iPlate, which it said can dramatically improve broadband speeds. 

The iPlate- expected to sell for around &pound;10 - cuts out electrical interference from other household objects, including TVs and set-top boxes, and, according to BT tests, can improve broadband speed by an average of 1.5Mbps. 

In one test a faulty fluorescent light was shown to cause a drop in speed from 3.8Mbps to 700Kbps.

The boxes are fitted into the master socket. 
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<pubDate>2008-06-11 10:12:32</pubDate>
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<title>[ADSL] Tips for dealing with BT support</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20730004</link>
<description><![CDATA[My BT line has recently developed a problem where my modem will lose sync, and it will then spend around 20 minutes losing and regaining sync until it's finally stable again (oddly enough it's more stable at higher sync speeds and low), this happens mostly on mornings.

When I have a stable sync my line stats are excellent but when I keep losing sync, the attenuation stats are awful and I have a lot of HEC errors. I only have one phoneline in our flat and this problem occurs even if modem is directly connected to phoneline (i.e not a microfilter problem).

Is anyone aware of a fast way of reporting a line fault to BT? I don't have anything against the indian support staff, they're always very pleasant and I understand them fine, but I don't want to spend 20 minutes confirming I have a cable plugged in properly, restarting my computer, router, etc etc when I know for sure it's a line fault.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2008-07-02 04:40:05</pubDate>
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<title>[ADSL] Sky broadband with a SAGEM F@ST 800 modem</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20798709</link>
<description><![CDATA[I am currently visiting my father in the UK and he has a Sky broadband account. Unfortunately the Netgear wireless router is defect and it will take 14 days for Sky to send a new one. As I am only here for 5 days and had planned to work from home, this is causing me a problem.

My question is: is it possible to use a Sagem F@ST modem, previously used on a Tiscali accout, to connect to Sky and, if so, what are the configuration changes needed to do this?

All info gratefully received.

Steve]]></description>
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<pubDate>2008-07-16 06:13:26</pubDate>
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<title>SOLUTION: Wake on Lan - Orange Livebox (Port Forwarding)</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20793158</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hello folks.
I am an Orange Broadband user in the UK. I wanted to setup WakeOnLan (WOL) over the internet on one of my machines in my home network.(FYI - WakeonLAN ables you to send a 'magic packet' to the NIC on your machine to boot it via the internet).

There are websites which will send the magic packet to your IP address and then to the NIC of the machine you want to wake up.

Couple of pre-requisites
NB. I assume your technical knowledge is sufficient to not need exact step-by-step to setup port forwarding. And you understand how to setup static IP addresses etc on your network.

1. Your NIC must be able to support Wake on Lan
2. Change your BIOS to enable Wake on Lan
3. The MAC address of your NIC.
4. The IP address (internet IP) or DNS name (if you use Dynamic DNS etc) of your PC.
5. Port-forwarding to UDP Port 9
6. You use STATIC IP address in your LAN !!!!

So, how do set it up for Orange Livebox?!
Here is the solution that works 100% for me.

After hours of trying to get it to work, I discovered that the livebox will NOT port forward to the broadcast address (ie. 192.168.1.255)

In order for WOL to work successfully, you need to be able to port forward to the broadcast address.
Thus, as the livebox does not let you do that - I thought there was no way to get WOL over internet to work.

However, Livebox DOES let you port foward to specific IP address in your network successfully. For example you can port forward 80 for http, and 22 for SSH etc.

So, if you want WOL over the internet to work using an Orange Livebox, you will need a second router that DOES allow port forwarding to the Broadcast address (ie 192.168.1.255)
A good router that DOES allow this is the Linksys BEFSR4 ADSL Router (not Wifi enabled)

So, here is how I set it up to work:

       Internet
          |
    Orange Live Box [forward udp 9 to 192.168.0.2 udp 9]
  (LAN IP 192.168.0.1)
          |
          |
  (WAN Static IP: 192.168.0.2)
    Linksys BEFSR41v3 [forward udp 9 to 192.168.1.255 udp 9]              
  (LAN IP address: 192.168.1.1)
          |
          |           
  Networked PC       
 (192.168.1.10)
 (default gateway 192.168.1.1)
 (NIC MAC address: xxxxxxxxxxxx)

So, using a web-based WOL tool (like http://www.remotewakeup.com/en/index.php) you can boot the PC that is at 192.168.1.10.

You need to go to the Advance Configuration of the Livebox and choose Router. In that section you need to setup the port forwarding for UDP 9 to go to the router address 192.168.0.2

Then on the Linksys Router you need to port forward UDP 9 incoming to 192.168.1.255 (broadcast address)

Here is the flow:
You need to input on the remotewakeup.com with following info:
IP Hostname: yourdyndnsname.com
MAC-Address: xxxxxxxxxxxx (the mac address of the NIC on the PC you want to wake up)
Port: 9

So the site sends the magic packet to yourdyndnsname.com, NIC MAC address and port 9, the orange Livebox then receives the UDP packet on port 9, it then forwards (as per the rule setup) to the Linksys Router. The Linksys router then forwards (as per the rule setup) port 9 UDP to the 192.168.1.255 (broadcast address) on the network.

Now the magic packet is being broadcast to the network, it specifies the MAC-address, and will be forwarded to the NIC on the PC.

The Magic-Packet will Wake the PC, and voila, the PC will boot remotely.

So, in summary - the only way I could get a PC to Wake-on-LAN over the internet using Orange Livebox - was to add a router that allows port forwarding to the broadcast address.

Hopefully, this is somewhat easy enough to follow.

Good luck! It's not as complicated as it seems! Now you can wake your PC when you need it, and save power and the environment by not leaving it on all the time!!!

Alessandro]]></description>
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<pubDate>2008-07-15 06:08:39</pubDate>
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<title>[ADSL] Be Broadband - anyone on it?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20605657</link>
<description><![CDATA[Is anyone actually on it? Any good?

I just got a letter saying Bulldog are changing and I don't like it, therefor I am looking to move.

Are they just broadband or phone as well?

thanks

PS anyone game on it? Whats ping like?
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<pubDate>2008-06-07 07:04:25</pubDate>
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