Billion 5200S question

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I applied for Telkom to activate ADSL on my line and plugged in my router to see what happens - the ADSL LED is flashing, what does that mean? I looked in the little booklet and even downloaded the user manual but can't find any reference to a flashing ADSL LED. Does anybody know what it means?
 
Hi

When did you apply for the self install?
When the ADSL light flashes it means that there is no connectivity between you and the DSLAM.
In short: That line might not be enabled for ADSL yet. ;)
 
flashing adsl light means your ADSL is down phone telkom and ask them to activate your line they sometimes forget
 
Thanks - that's what I figured. Only applied this week, so assumed Telkom hadn't got around to it yet (read a post where some guy said he just plugged his stuff in and it was all working a couple of weeks before Telkom even phoned - thought I'd take a chance...)

Anyway, another question - and you should now being the Billion Rep - we're at a small office (5 PCs) with a LAN connecting us all. At the moment were using a 3G/HSDPA connection on one of the computers and everyone connects through the one shared connection. Will I have to do the same with my Billion, or can every PC connect individually?
 
Speedster said:
Anyway, another question - and you should now being the Billion Rep - we're at a small office (5 PCs) with a LAN connecting us all. At the moment were using a 3G/HSDPA connection on one of the computers and everyone connects through the one shared connection. Will I have to do the same with my Billion, or can every PC connect individually?
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You bought the 5200S and that model just have 1 Ethernet port. So I will suggest just to get yourself a small switch and then connect the router to the switch and then all the PC's can run off the switch.
 
That's what I meant, yes. I have a small switch with all 5 PCs connected to the LAN. Was planning on connecting the ADSL router to the switch - just wondering if I'd be able to have each PC connect individually, or if I would have to share the connection like I do my 3G.
 
Sorry but is there any specific reason why you would want to connect individually with each PC? Cuase you setup will be: internet-->5200S--> Switch --> 5 PC's....
 
Your easiest route is to plug your router into the switch, set all 5 PC's to automitically obtain an IP and set your DSL user name and password in the router and you are A for away.
 
Thanks James - that is what I was getting at. So the router can contain my ISP details, and I don't have to log in from each machine? That is how I was hoping it would work.
 
Yip, it is perfect, I have the same router and have the bridge mode activated too so I have 1 machine running a local only account getting "the latest *nix distro's" and 4 others connecting to the router PPPoE establish 10Gb account.
 
Cool, now if I can only get Telkom to help out a bit :)

Anyway, a bit OT, but how do I know whether a site is local or international? Is it simply the .co.za suffix or is it more complicated than that?
 
You would generally look at the IP addy, i.e if you ping myadsl.co.za you get 196.7.147.165 this is within the SA IP range. Not sure what the whole range is. You basically are looking at the first bit, the 196.x.xxx.xxx tells you SA, there are more though.

Don't go on the DNS extension. Often a .co.za site is hosted over seas due to costs and then you even get .com sites hosted here.
 
You don't really, but if you have a standard account it does not matter as it does not differentiate between the 2, they are both counted to wards your total.
 
just to add on with the blinking led.
we ordered a dsl line for one of our clients in the middle of last year, finally in december the line was installed and i installed the modem etc. got the blinking light, phoned telkom and they said it would take 48-72hrs to activate. i waited 72hrs, still a blinking light. i phoned again and they said it will take 72hr and they will contact me. i repeated this process with telkom 4 more times over the following 2 weeks. it is now feb and and that damn light is still blinking....so i phone again....and guess what happened...yup..72hrs to activate...ive given up and got another technician to sit on the phone with telkom.
 
there is an application that will route international traffic over one ADSL connection and local traffic through another... if that is what you are going to try and do.
 
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So I'm assuming 66.242.19.191 isn't local... I download quite a bit of stuff from there.

What is the point of openweb's local only specials then?
 
Speedster said:
So I'm assuming 66.242.19.191 isn't local... I download quite a bit of stuff from there.

What is the point of openweb's local only specials then?
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Nope I think that would belong to a server in the US.

Well you get access to the IS news server which is supposed to have quite a bit of stuff on. I have not used it so would not know. Then I know of people hosting all kinds of local servers with it, like private gaming servers, forums, websites, etc. There are some uses for a local only account, but not something I would use.
 
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