Half-Bridge help

[lilggg]

I am currently sharing my dads 100WR router using a cable.He has a 1gb telkom account which is nowhere near enough for me to share with him,so i want to use my own,but he doesnt want me changing any router settings.I read that this router supports half-bridge mode,which should allow me to dialup on my pc and bypass his account.Ive tried dialing up with the telkomsa guest account but i get

error 691

the connection was denied because the username and password you specified is invalid or you do not have permissions.

I hope the account details are right,i saw a thread here saying guest1@telkomsa.net pass:guest1 or guest@telkomsa.net pass:guest,i tried both.

Is it possible to dialup in half bridge without changing any settings on the router or have i setup the connection wrong on my PC.Thanks

 

[StrontiumDog]

Is it possible to dialup in half bridge without changing any settings on the router or have i setup the connection wrong on my PC.Thanks

Yes... it is possible.

Depends on the specific 100WR that u have. My cousins one seemed to be in half bridge mode straight out the box. U need to get hold of an account where u are sure of the login credentials if u r gonna test properly

What account do u plan on purchasing for yourself - what isp? How much bandwidth do u plan on using? What kind of line do u have? (i.e. ur pops ain't gonna be too thrilled if u use up the entire pipe -assuming u r on 384k)

 

[lilggg]

well,we sharing 384 line,but he hardly uses the net,few hours a nite.Was hoping to get a mweb uncapped account or maybe just a few gb's from afrihost to start.
I logged into the router from my pc,i dont know why i didnt think of that before,and the connection type is set to PPPOE,i have no idea if that is half bridged or what.

 

[StrontiumDog]

Oh, assuming u have the details for his telkom Do1 account, u can setup a dial up connection on your pc using those same credentials. The Do1 accounts do allow at least 2 concurrent connections, so u can use that to test. Also i am assuming u know how to do what I am suggesting. This might be the easiest before u start fiddling with router settings, which he doesn't want u to do anyways I don't have the 100WR myself so cant tell u offhand what the settings should be for half bridge mode.

One last thing, since u guys are sharing the line perhaps the easiest is to do away with his Do1 account alltogether and get a single uncapped account for the both of u. Why pay telkom any more than u need to!

 

[lilggg]

Lol,yeah ive tried talking him into getting uncapped,would be much easier,but he wont budge.Hopefully soon he will realise he needs it when i start capping him.Thanks though i think ill try login with the Do1 account.

 

[StrontiumDog]

At least Do1 is only an extra R47 per month over and above the R152 adsl access charge. Maybe once u get an uncapped account he might come to his senses. [edit: If u need more specific advice on the 100WR hopefully one of the other forumites can help u there, well better than i can ]

 

[lilggg]

Yeha u have been a big help,thanx.Accordng to telkom site 1gb - 3gb package only allow 1 concurrent session,but someone is lending me an account so im gna try it out.

 

[lilggg]

Wooh,i borrowed an account and it dialed up perfectly.Will it use up any bandwidth from the other account once ive dialed up?

 

[StrontiumDog]

I have a telkom Do1 and it allows me to do 2 or even 3 concurrent connections. I often connect using the same account on my router as well as on a 2nd pc via dial up (when testing things like tonight where Seacom has been down and the telkom accounts have been acting up).

Wooh,i borrowed an account and it dialed up perfectly.Will it use up any bandwidth from the other account once ive dialed up?

It should use the b/w from the dialup account but to be 100% sure, check the 'Status' of the dial up connection by double clicking the task tray icon on your task bar (assuming u have winXP). Then when u r surfing/downloading then the bytes received/sent should change as u do stuff.