Taking a Looong Time to Log On

[mitchmagi]

ADSL is driving me crazy this week.

I have the Telkom POTS router and dial-up using Win XP PPPOE. It normally takes 5 seconds ( if not less ) to dial up.

It is now taking over 2 minutes !

Any idea as to what is causing this ?

I have tried recreating the connection - but it doesn't help. I don't think its PC related ...

Telkom have been doing maintenance on my exchange ( I wish they would leave things alone ! ) Any idea as to what they may have done port wise ( or if this could be hardware related ) or what I can request they do ?

If it doesn't take 2 minutes + to dial-up ... I get error 691 - unable to establish remote connection

 

[James]

If you are the only one using the connection why use the XP ppoe software that uses password. log onto ur router, 192.168.10.200 user name root password root if you have not changed it yet. now you will presented with some options. Choose basic config and enter in all settings. When you get to username and password use your ADSL u/n and p/w. Now when you set up a connection choose i connect though a dsl connection that is always online. Make sure you have an auto IP. The router has built in DHCP to assign u one. If not set up an IP on the same range 192.168.10.* and be sure to fill in your gateway 192.168.10.200. (all ip's, user names are the standard default values. They may however be different according to firmware/make/model of router)

There is no peace without war!!!

 

[loosecannon]

one reason for not doing this is it forces you to use nat/pat on the router ofcourse if you use XP PPPoE your machine is directly connected to the internet and is at a greater risk ....

if it was the telkom auth servers [inevitably] having details on the router would hide the problem as it will stay connected longer [accross PC reboots] but when it does run into a problem it can be difficult to trace ... ie the router is not logging on quick enough you will be thinking your PC is broke ...

the telkom servers up and till i left telkom were very irratic and unstable and often would delay / fail authentication ...

TTFN

 

[mitchmagi]

Thanks for the info.

Much appreciated.

Currently running the router on a small home LAN ... the one benefit of the dial-up scenario is that I'm instantly able to detect if there is an issue with the line ( the connection gets dropped )

If you run in 'always-on' mode - it may take a while to notice the drop in connectivity

Thanks again - mysteriously everything solved itself this morning. I'm beginning to think that Telkom were doing additional maintenance on the exchange which was causing the log-in issues ...

 

[James]

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<br />one reason for not doing this is it forces you to use nat/pat on the router ofcourse if you use XP PPPoE your machine is directly connected to the internet and is at a greater risk ....
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lol, this is why they invent firewalls. Point taken though, I just find this so much easier. The longer i do this as well the more i forget about cucky dial up accounts(remember that thing that used a modem and made this ugly fax noise, so long ago now *sighs in memory*), that authenticating PPPoE software reminds me of it and how far behind we are.

There is no peace without war!!!

 

[mitchmagi]

Just a follow up ...

It turns out that their was a problem with a rack at the exchange. Software was corrupt.

This has been on the go for the past week and finally after receiving numerous complaints from affected users they came to the conclusion that it just wasn't one lone user who didn't have anything better to do than complain [8D]

Hopefully things will now return to normal ...