dracolusus
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Hi all, thanks for reading, I'll try keep this short.
So a few months ago, I got that 3 month free trail from Telkom for a 1mb uncapped ADSL line, modem included. Thought the service sucked, cause I kept losing connection every day and had to restart the router. Aaanyways, got Diablo 3 and 3G is just ****, so I got Telkom to reactivate the line, so I can use my 3GB of free FNBconnect date.
I plugged in the Billion 400G?, as it was before (screw paying Telkom R600+ to plug in a router). I login to the modem, change the username and password details and save, it connects and....no internet connection. I never changed any settings, I would have guessed that it worked before, it should work again. I call FNB Connect and they say they can see I'm connected, the router picks up their DNS servers. I can ping the IP I'm connected to, no dice for internet.
I eventually give them my password, they test it on their side, they say everything is fine, its on my side...great. I tried every possible, logical setting and nothing helped, read their manual, settings seem fine. So I think its the modem. I borrow my friend's DLink router, it still has his Afrihost details, I change username and password, same thing. Can "Connect" to FNB, picks up the DNS IPs, router reports the line is up, connected and defect free, all settings seem to be correct (8/35 LLC PPPoE etc etc)...but no internet.
I thought maybe it was my work laptop and being coneected to a domain, I tried a new profile, I got my destop in the room to connect via a bridged wifi router, connects to the network and same story connected with no internet. FNB says everything is fine on their side...
ANY IDEAS PLEASE?!?!? I'm about at the end of my teather. Possibly something wrong with the line?
So a few months ago, I got that 3 month free trail from Telkom for a 1mb uncapped ADSL line, modem included. Thought the service sucked, cause I kept losing connection every day and had to restart the router. Aaanyways, got Diablo 3 and 3G is just ****, so I got Telkom to reactivate the line, so I can use my 3GB of free FNBconnect date.
I plugged in the Billion 400G?, as it was before (screw paying Telkom R600+ to plug in a router). I login to the modem, change the username and password details and save, it connects and....no internet connection. I never changed any settings, I would have guessed that it worked before, it should work again. I call FNB Connect and they say they can see I'm connected, the router picks up their DNS servers. I can ping the IP I'm connected to, no dice for internet.
I eventually give them my password, they test it on their side, they say everything is fine, its on my side...great. I tried every possible, logical setting and nothing helped, read their manual, settings seem fine. So I think its the modem. I borrow my friend's DLink router, it still has his Afrihost details, I change username and password, same thing. Can "Connect" to FNB, picks up the DNS IPs, router reports the line is up, connected and defect free, all settings seem to be correct (8/35 LLC PPPoE etc etc)...but no internet.
I thought maybe it was my work laptop and being coneected to a domain, I tried a new profile, I got my destop in the room to connect via a bridged wifi router, connects to the network and same story connected with no internet. FNB says everything is fine on their side...
ANY IDEAS PLEASE?!?!? I'm about at the end of my teather. Possibly something wrong with the line?
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