BILLION 7300N ADSL/Wireless router issues

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After my second Telkom ADSL router went, I walked to PC Pro Shop in Menlyn. My first mistake. This was the last time me, or my company buy anything from them. But, as I was in a hurry I just went with them.

Bought the Billion 7300N ADSL router, got it on my system rather easy. Yet, when I tried to setup a direct PPPOE connection from my PC to connect to the internet, it did not work. That after I specifically asked the sales person about that.

I then tried to connect my one PC with the AP. Could not. I could see it. Yet it did not want to connect. I removed the wireless card (Linksys), uninstalled the software, restarted, and installed a new USB wireless N dongle I bought. Again I can see the AP, but could not connect.

What should have been a easy transition, became a nightmare.

This morning I called Nerd on Site, but after 6 hours they have not come back to me. Seems they do not need any further clients. Called Incredible Connection a while back, still no word from them.

I am willing to pay to get this settings correct. Any ideas on what I can do to get this damn router/AP working on my network via the wireless ?
 
What sort of wireless security did you use for the router? Did you run through the whole setup wizard? perhaps try it with a different security protocol and then see if it connects. I would actually start of with a completely open protocol and see if that works. then you incrementally increase the security protocols (open, WAP, WEP, WEP2) and see where your PC stops connecting..
Also check if any security settings on the router has been enabled by default, such as maybe MAC address filtering?

Anyways, I'm not a big fan of Billion because of my experienced with them but if it's a brand new router then I am pretty sure that it's just a case of getting the right settings, however without sitting in front of the console, I won't really be able to help.

Oh BTW... I must say that I have contacted the local Billion support guys before and they were actually very helpful. I don't think it was a same day response since they are quite busy, but I was at their shop once and talked to the guys on the phone and they were friendly and helpful (back then). Hope for your sake they still are. :)
 
its

disabled > WEP > WPA-PSK > WPA2-PSK (also remember to type in the key when you connect using the wireless devices or it wont connect to router or anything)

go through in that order i personally use WEP since its common key used for my nintendo ds's

also some laptops and pcs only support WEP

also are you using DHCP or Static IP address?
 
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My network makes use of static IP adresses. However, I have tried it with both static, and using the router as a DHCP server. Static addresses are just one small level of added security.

I have tried it with no security, WPA, WEP, everything. I have tried different combination. I have uninstalled and installed. Used different USB ports. I tried a different PC, same problem.

I connected my old Netgear wireless router, and connected to the network with that. So the USB Dongle works.

I got the laptop working no problem, so the router/AP works. Battled with another laptop, cannot get working.

Resetted the router/AP and started anew.

I got it working now(spend literally more than 5 hours on this), using the following settings:
- The default "Channel ID" setting was "Auto". I set it to channel one.
- I changed the setting "Channel Width" to 20 MHz. It was on 20/40 MHz.
BTW: Also changed the default ESSID to: I-hate-Telkom...
Now it works. I think changing the ESSID did it :P
 
Bought the Billion 7300N ADSL router, got it on my system rather easy. Yet, when I tried to setup a direct PPPOE connection from my PC to connect to the internet, it did not work. That after I specifically asked the sales person about that.
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The router does have this feature just btw
 
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