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I always said I hope never to get so old that I do not know how to tune the TV and do the remote ext. Well it seems it is time....
Got myself an Imate PDA2K. Wow ! i use it for work and at home (Have adsl at home on network and mywireless on work network) Ok I sync on both networks, can do GPRS internet surfing and email. I also have a D-Link 2100 AP at home but just cannot get it right to surf via the D-link through the adsl router. (I know it is easy---I am just getting old now?) Can anybody help me with the settings for this ?
Thanks
Johan CT
 
Problem solved !

Thanks. Problem solved. LordVega like the judge said to Shaik " You will be pleasantly suprised !" All I can say. ;)
 
LordVega

Sounds like you had a bad experience with D-Link equiptment.
I've had hastles before but all was sorted out.

Elf1nDrak3
 
Have to agree with LordVega.

Since the beginning of the year I have had to return 5 DLink 300T adsl modems. Replacements usually last anything from 1 hour to a few months and then they break again.

I asked the guy in the returns department last time I was there if they get alot of trouble from d-link. Apparently they do and not just the ADSL modems.

But then the stuff is cheap, so its expected to be a bit rubbish.
 
Pookfuzz

I have to agree that there was an issue with the DSL's from January up till the end of March. It was difficult to identify the issue as ADSL SA proves us time and again from a Vendor side to be the most erratic and unexspected broadband network in the world.

Having a non-telkom broadband router/modem in the SA market proves to be a challenge as the parameters keeps changing from telkom. If they don't change to parameter then they drop the sinc-rate.

THIS IS A PAIN EVERYTIME!!

We've changed the firmware 8 times on the DSL-xxxT series from the beginning of last year. The only D-Link product with so many hastles. :(

From the middle of April up till now we Experimented with ADSL2+, (something telkom still has up their sleeve), tested, tried (backwards compatible with ADSL) and I have to say we are in a stable situation and ahead of the game (for now :S).

D-Link doesn't have an issue by getting hardware, that doesn't work, swopped out as this is part of our policy.

But yes we had a MAJOR issue with our DSL's till now.
The new one you'll buy or sell will not give us hastles. We'll not until telkom gives us another run.
 
Does anyone have a suggestion as to what DSL modem to get?
I am getting a DSL line soon unless telkom comes up with some kind of excuse. :confused:
 
Linksys WAG54G are neat DSL/Wireless modems. Dlink 604GT same platform. Netgear DG384, same nice platform.

Getting the drift here? Those three devices are all Broadcom based, off the same reference architectures. Essentially you get a DSL modem, router, and wireless bridge/router all in one.

As to which brand? Well, perhaps some of the others here can fill you in, but they all have the same guts inside, so it doesn't really matter all that much. The Dlink's seem to be favoured by a lot of people on these forums, I prefer the Linksys gear. I've also heard good mutterings about the Netgears.
 
I haven't tried the others, but I'm pretty happy with my Netgear DG384G.
 
Elf1nDrak3,

If the problems really are just firmware related, then why hell does the dlink site not post the updated firmware!!! All the dlink site has is a PDF for the 300T. I find it somewhat insane that I need to return the unit and then have to wait a few weeks to get a replacement!

As for firmware, what I have seen is somewhat random. Some modems have the EU firmware, some have a ZA firmware. Both work, but only for a short time - anything from a few hours to my current record about 3 months. Then they do weird things, like constantly retraining the line every 30 seconds, deciding that you no longer using fast path or giving random sync speeds.

Since my last swapout 3 months ago, one of the two modems has stopped working. It lasted a whole 2 days before it died. Thankfully the second one seems to be fairing better, it hasent died. yet.

I have given up returning these things. If my current one dies so be it, I will go out and get something non dlink, most likely a netgear.

I understand that Telkom are messing everyone around, but the bottom line is that it appears the dlink 300T is not so nice and bellyflops more than others.

If firmware updates really do fix the problems, please kick your webmaster in the butt and get the patches online. I'm sure I am not the only one with a broken adsl modem who has just given up on returning the thing all the time.
 
hmmmm, I have a D-Link 300T and its been going full-taps since day one. Apart from the initial firmware upgrade that i got from their website to fix the password length problem; i've never had a day's trouble with it.

Obelix
 
Pookfuzz

Pookfuzz

D-Link is working on the website issue. They canned the current webhost and is now constructing the web-site themselves.
Currently D-Link has a ftp site where you can find all the latest and greatest firmware patches, drivers, manuals, etc.... @ ftp.dlinktech.co.za

Also D-Link is constructing a new and improved customers relations TECHNICAL website only for SA D-Link users you can find this site at www.dlinktech.co.za

Please note that the www.dlinktech.co.za website is not officially finnished but the forums is open for any chit chats or D-Link issues etc.. www.dlinktech.co.za/forums

And that's that.
 
Well done for making the effort to be more consumer friendly.

I did eventually find the ftp site via this forum, the firmware however did not revive the 300T, it still just sits and eternally tries to train to the line. I used DLinkEU_DSL-300T_V2.00B01T01.EU.20050430_upgradeB05.zip

You may also want to consider keeping all previous versions of the firmware, not just the latest; if the new one were to introduce a bug I could not live with I would not be able to undo it.

The working DSL-300T has firmware V1.00B02T02.ZA.20041109, which I have looked for but never found anywhere.
 
Pookfuzz

Pookfuzz

Putting more than one version of firmware on the ftp site confuses a lot of people. We did this on a previous occassion and got a lot of 'dummy' call like uhhh which one should we use. (some people don't understand latest means latest DATE or that 1.3 is later than 1.2).
So we agreed to issue only the latest firmware at a time and when someone like yourself wants an older firmware we could just mail it to you or make it available on the side line for you to grap.
Kapish?
 
CTPC said:
I always said I hope never to get so old that I do not know how to tune the TV and do the remote ext. Well it seems it is time....
Got myself an Imate PDA2K. Wow ! i use it for work and at home (Have adsl at home on network and mywireless on work network) Ok I sync on both networks, can do GPRS internet surfing and email. I also have a D-Link 2100 AP at home but just cannot get it right to surf via the D-link through the adsl router. (I know it is easy---I am just getting old now?) Can anybody help me with the settings for this ?
Thanks
Johan CT
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Hi,

I have a friend with exactly the same problem - imate and dlink 2100AP - but the problem of 'not accessing the AP' only occurs when I enable MAC filtering. The imate will just not connect even though I add its mac on the 'enabled' list.

What was your problem and how did you fix it?

Thanks
Nic
 
Nic

Nic

I also have a DWL-2100AP in my office enabled to allow only 8 nodes to connect through it. Running MAC filtering, WPA-PSK and hidden SSID and it's works like a charm. The only difference I think between your unit and mine is the firmware.
Find the latest firmware for the DWL-2100AP here: Version 2.1
ftp://ftp.dlinktech.co.za/Product Drivers and Firmware/Wireless/DWL-2100AP/Firmware HW_Ax FW_2.10eu/

Very important. This unit must hav been bought in South Africa because other regions of D-Link runs on different hardware versions and uploading the wrong firmware version on the wrong firmware version will result in a failure of the unit.
 
Elf1nDrak3 said:
Having a non-telkom broadband router/modem in the SA market proves to be a challenge as the parameters keeps changing from telkom. If they don't change to parameter then they drop the sinc-rate.
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Well rather odd how Netgear and Linksys and even others seem to cope with all these configuration changes ... can't seem to recall Netgear/Linksys making S.A special firmware changes.

Perhaps the problem lies elsewhere ;).
 
Elf1nDrak3 said:
This unit must hav been bought in South Africa because other regions of D-Link runs on different hardware versions and uploading the wrong firmware version on the wrong firmware version will result in a failure of the unit.
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Yet another reason why I loath to use Taiwanese origin products ... they seem to swap suppliers every 6 months purely based on cost so they never have the time to fully debug, understand and develop a product.

Their products get obsolesent rather quickly and if you don't have the proper flavour of the month then you are out of luck.
 
Tibby

Tibby

One thing I know. Being a independant vendor in a monopolized market, we have to make the most of everything we do. Bringing in overseas products to South Africa proves to have it's own challenges. Most of which is that Taiwan can't simulate a South African enviroment for thorough debugging.
But that's not the point all of the D-Link Products in the market today and in the future will work in a normal enviroment. Firmware upgrades are only there to improve the product's performance even more and the occational bug fixes.

And creating a more technology advanced South Africa we have to take the chance to importing Taiwanese, US and European products so that we don't fall behind.

Yes I have to admit that there are sometimes problems, but you'll get that we everything you buy concerning technology.
 
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