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Migrainuer

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A new Screamer (Please help)

Hey Guys

I've been following all the posts regarding Screamer WiMax and subsequently am now a screamer too. The technicians came around to my house last week Friday and after a few hours finally managed to get me on-line.

Initial tests were done by connecting a laptop to the IDU and defining a static IP address of 192.168.254.12 / 255.255.255.0 not that it means much.

GREAT!! So, I grabbed my old Telkom Mega 105 WR ADSL router, connected the IDU to one of the Ethernet ports and got my PC downstairs hooked up Wirelessly. After setting up the PPPoE dial-up connection on my PC I established a connection.

I left home for a while and upon my return I found that my PC had lost it's IP address; although my PPPoE connection remained active and I was still able to surf.

The windows system event log indicated that a duplicate IP address had been found on the network. A quick reboot of the Telkom router didn't resolve this and I attempted to assign a static IP which did not work.

I eventually found that I had to disconnect the IDU in order for my PC to get a new IP address. Logging into the Router showed that the entire range of DHCP IP addresses had been consumed. Later that weekend I tried a number of things to resolve this and also tried to find some information on-line, hoping that someone had seen this issue before. No Luck :confused:

I've been running my Internet connection like that for the entire week and today decided to go and get myself a proper broadband router, based on what you guys have been saying I decided to get a Linksys Broadband router and went for the WRT160N.

The intent was to connect the IDU to the Internet/WAN port of the router, configure PPPoE dial-up and away we go?? Thinking that the Internet port would separate the IDU / CPE from the switch running DHCP.

I've spent around 6 hours now trying to get this to work. The strange thing is that even when the IDU is connected to the WAN port of the router, although not losing my IP address I also eventually am unable to access the Web Interface of the router; until I disconnect the IDU.

When attempting the PPPoE connection from the router I receive the following error: "Can not get an IP address from the PPPoE server"
I am not convinced this is a true reflection of the problem since I get the same message when completely removing the IDU connection from the router.

So, in order to post this message I have connected the IDU directly to the Ethernet ports on the router and have dialed up through the PPPoE dial-up connection.

Now here's the next twist, the Linksys EasyLink Advisor started picking other "devices" connected to it as soon as I plugged in the IDU, even before connecting the PPPoE dial-up connection.

There's a computer by the name of CHARL with IP 192.168.254.3 with a MAC address different to that of the IDU as well as another unknown device with IP 192.168.254.99. I am unable to get a response from these when I ping them but EasyLink certainly believes that they are online.

I gotta say; I love the speed and being a World of Warcraft player the latency works for me too. I've had one morning and one evening where the tower seemed to have been down but I can bare with that.

So after my long winded tale of my first week of WiMax, my question is:
1) Did I waste my money on this router or am I doing something wrong?
2) Has anyone else had any issue with the WiMax equipment causing a conflict with your DHCP server?
3) What are these foreign addresses and could it be an issue with the installation?

Desperately seeking some assistane
Mig
 
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Hi Migrainuer

Shoooooeeeeiiiii

I will forward your post to one of our engineers and ask him to contact you so please PM me your account no.

We have hundreds of these Linksys routers connected to our network and it is our recommended router and they are normally a cinch to install so I am sure the gremlin that has attached itself to yours can be sorted out quickly.


Migrainuer said:
Hey Guys

I've been following all the posts regarding Screamer WiMax and subsequently am now a screamer too. The technicians came around to my house last week Friday and after a few hours finally managed to get me on-line.

Initial tests were done by connecting a laptop to the IDU and defining a static IP address of 192.168.254.12 / 255.255.255.0 not that it means much.

GREAT!! So, I grabbed my old Telkom Mega 105 WR ADSL router, connected the IDU to one of the Ethernet ports and got my PC downstairs hooked up Wirelessly. After setting up the PPPoE dial-up connection on my PC I established a connection.

I left home for a while and upon my return I found that my PC had lost it's IP address; although my PPPoE connection remained active and I was still able to surf.

The windows system event log indicated that a duplicate IP address had been found on the network. A quick reboot of the Telkom router didn't resolve this and I attempted to assign a static IP which did not work.

I eventually found that I had to disconnect the IDU in order for my PC to get a new IP address. Logging into the Router showed that the entire range of DHCP IP addresses had been consumed. Later that weekend I tried a number of things to resolve this and also tried to find some information on-line, hoping that someone had seen this issue before. No Luck :confused:

I've been running my Internet connection like that for the entire week and today decided to go and get myself a proper broadband router, based on what you guys have been saying I decided to get a Linksys Broadband router and went for the WRT160N.

The intent was to connect the IDU to the Internet/WAN port of the router, configure PPPoE dial-up and away we go?? Thinking that the Internet port would separate the IDU / CPE from the switch running DHCP.

I've spent around 6 hours now trying to get this to work. The strange thing is that even when the IDU is connected to the WAN port of the router, although not losing my IP address I also eventually am unable to access the Web Interface of the router; until I disconnect the IDU.

When attempting the PPPoE connection from the router I receive the following error: "Can not get an IP address from the PPPoE server"
I am not convinced this is a true reflection of the problem since I get the same message when completely removing the IDU connection from the router.

So, in order to post this message I have connected the IDU directly to the Ethernet ports on the router and have dialed up through the PPPoE dial-up connection.

Now here's the next twist, the Linksys EasyLink Advisor started picking other "devices" connected to it as soon as I plugged in the IDU, even before connecting the PPPoE dial-up connection.

There's a computer by the name of CHARL with IP 192.168.254.3 with a MAC address different to that of the IDU as well as another unknown device with IP 192.168.254.99. I am unable to get a response from these when I ping them but EasyLink certainly believes that they are online.

I gotta say; I love the speed and being a World of Warcraft player the latency works for me too. I've had one morning and one evening where the tower seemed to have been down but I can bare with that.

So after my long winded tale of my first week of WiMax, my question is:
1) Did I waste my money on this router or am I doing something wrong?
2) Has anyone else had any issue with the WiMax equipment causing a conflict with your DHCP server?
3) What are these foreign addresses and could it be an issue with the installation?

Desperately seeking some assistane
Mig
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*sigh of relief*

Just tested the PPPoE dial-up capability of my Linksys router with an ADSL router (Bridge mode) and it connected with no problem.

One link in the chain eliminated ^^
 
Well, I finally got the tech team out yesterday and they ran a couple of tests.
Eventually replacing the CPE and re-wiring the RJ-45 connectors between the IDU and CPE got my Broadband router dialing up.

So now that the IDU is hooked up to the WAN port of the router my IP conflict problems have been eliminated.

The underlying issue of IP conflicts when the equipment is connected directly to the network still exists.

But hey, the router solved that so all is super in Screamer land ^.^
 
Migrainuer said:
The underlying issue of IP conflicts when the equipment is connected directly to the network still exists.
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I'm convinced that this is still causing major issues with my connection. Although as I mentioned in previous posts, my internet is working and I am able to add more devices to my network now, my router seems to get into a state where it hangs and I am forced to restart it.

I spoke to a Screamer L3 support tech who responded with: "Is your internet working?" to which I answered "yes...but...." and he simply replied with: "So what's the problem?"

Surely the fact that connecting my Wimax directly to the network and it seemingly broadcasting on every possible IP range is a problem? As I said, I am convinced this is still causing the instability of my router.

Any experts opinions would be appreciated.
 
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