Telkom LTE setup

[CraigS2]

Hi

I'm new to the new fangled LTE business and would appreciate some help with my setup. I'm on the LTE uncapped deal (B315).

I have a UHD TV in the lounge, and then 25 meters away on the other side of the house, the ex garage/Mancave with xbox one, microserver, PS3.

The best signal with bunny aerials is in the lounge so that's where I have the router at the moment with a 30 meter network cable to the mancave and a short one to the TV there. I just have to swap the cable between the xbox and pc which isn't ideal. Telkom are installing the external antenna tomorrow but I'm not sure how to optimise this setup to minimise the cables. Help!

I did try wifi in the mancave, but couldn't get an open NAT on the xbox that way (even with the xbox in the dmz).

 

[darrencon]

Get a 5 port desktop gigabit switch and then you can plug in everything into the network without having to swop network cables.

 

[dj_jyno]

Get a 5 port desktop gigabit switch and then you can plug in everything into the network without having to swop network cables.

D-Link DGS-1005... runs off 5V power, and the connector on the switch is a miniUSB port.

 

[CraigS2]

Coool thanks! That should do the trick I think. I didn't think of a switch.
Could I use my old ADSL router as a switch?

 

[SFW007]

Coool thanks! That should do the trick I think. I didn't think of a switch.
Could I use my old ADSL router as a switch?

yes bridge mode

 

[CraigS2]

D-Link DGS-1005... runs off 5V power, and the connector on the switch is a miniUSB port.

Where can I get one in Cape Town for a good price? Cheapest I can find so far is Takealot at R449.

 

[nevadayz]

yes bridge mode

do this, i did the same, works perfectly.

 

[CraigS2]

I don't think my router supports it. DGN2200 from Telkom.

 

[CraigS2]

I don't think my router supports it. DGN2200 from Telkom.

 

[SFW007]

I don't think my router supports it. DGN2200 from Telkom.

Apparently does with elbow grease..

Taken from the Netgear community


Re: DGN2200 Bridge Mode
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‎2012-01-02 01:37 AM
If anyone is still looking for a solution to this, I succeeded in getting my DGN2200 into bridged mode. The device seems perfectly capable of it, but they didn't put an option in the web interface, which I find unacceptable. I'm bridging my ADSL connection to a linksys access point which has much more stable wireless-N and has the ability to run dd-wrt.

The procedure I used is as follows. Yours may differ if you have another way to access telnet.

1. First, enable telnet by whatever means works for you. I used modfs to enable the telnet service, but any technique should work.
1. Disable the wireless transmitter.
2. Disable both DHCP server and DHCP client (I did the latter by simply assigning a bogus static IP address to the WAN port).
3. telnet into the DGN2200 and clear the IP address from the atm0 interface:
$ ip address flush atm0
4. Add the atm0 interface to the default bridge device (the one that would normally bridge wireless and wired ports):
$ brctl addif br0 atm0
5. Make sure whatever other router you are using is connected via its WAN port to a port on the DGN2200
6. On your other router, make sure the MAC address matches what your ISP expects (unless you're using PPPoE, which I don't know anything about, so you're on your own there).
7. This caught me the first time: make sure you aren't also still using this same MAC address on the DGN2200. You can just reset it to default or whatever.
8. Release/renew the DHCP lease on your router until you get a public IP.

I'm posting with this setup right now, and it's working fine so far. HOWEVER, the one major downside is that you have to perform the "brctl addif br0 atm0" command every time your DGN2200 boots up. You could build a custom firmware or modify modfs if you're feeling really adventurous. I just use a script on my linux box that connects to the DGN2200 and runs the command automatically.

So, there you have it - it IS possible, it's just not nearly as easy as it should be.

 

[CraigS2]

Thanks bud, I'm sure somebody will find this info useful. For a IT noob like me, I decided to just grab a off the shelf switch as per the recommendations above (Negear GS605v4). It works perfectly aside from one strange issue. So I have one cable in the room from the LTE router going into the switch and from there splitting into the pc and xbox one. Going directly into the xbox one with the long cable, I get open NAT on the xbox and open NAT in games. Static IP on the xbox and added to the DMZ. Going via the switch, I get strict NAT on the xbox settings menu! But open NAT in games...

 

[CraigS2]

Any ideas?

 

[sajunky]

Thanks bud, I'm sure somebody will find this info useful. For a IT noob like me, I decided to just grab a off the shelf switch as per the recommendations above (Negear GS605v4). It works perfectly aside from one strange issue. So I have one cable in the room from the LTE router going into the switch and from there splitting into the pc and xbox one. Going directly into the xbox one with the long cable, I get open NAT on the xbox and open NAT in games. Static IP on the xbox and added to the DMZ. Going via the switch, I get strict NAT on the xbox settings menu! But open NAT in games...

Is your Xbox Ethernet port Fast or Gigabit type? If former and your router model is B315s, the following could give resonable answer.

Another user reported and my testing confirmed that Gigabit port on Huawei is not working properly. It will show up Gigabit link, but actual transfer rate never exceed Fast Ethernet speed. So I think there is compatibility problem forcing downgrade to the standard 2-pair Fast Ethernet speed. During re-negotiations some packets are lost resulting Xbox thinking that it is a firewall blocking access. When you connect Xbox directly, it will not try to negotiate Gigabit link resulting no packet loss.

 

[CraigS2]

That actually makes sense. The xbox and PC shows up with a green light on the switch (gigabit), the LTE router cable's light is orange (10/100). The router model is B315. Are there any workarounds aside from changing the router?

 

[CraigS2]

Or running another 30m cable through the roof... not ideal, my trunking is full!

 

[sajunky]

That actually makes sense. The xbox and PC shows up with a green light on the switch (gigabit), the LTE router cable's light is orange (10/100). The router model is B315. Are there any workarounds aside from changing the router?

In such case only portion what I wrote is valid. Link between router and switch should be Gigabit. Cable must be very bad quality or there is a bad contact on pins. Use crimping tool to refresh contacts. Visually check if plugs are compatible with this cable. If you don't have crimping tool or cable tester, just replace it with quality Cat5e solid wire cable (don't use patch cable on such distances).

 

[CraigS2]

Will using a 10/100 switch resolve the issue?

 

[CraigS2]

In such case only portion what I wrote is valid. Link between router and switch should be Gigabit. Cable must be very bad quality or there is a bad contact on pins. Use crimping tool to refresh contacts. Visually check if plugs are compatible with this cable. If you don't have crimping tool or cable tester, just replace it with quality Cat5e solid wire cable (don't use patch cable on such distances).

I'll move the router over to the other side of the house this evening and test with a short network cable. If it goes green orange on the switch, I guess the network cable is the problem.

 

[sajunky]

Will using a 10/100 switch resolve the issue?

Yes, but cable seem to be very bad, it might be not good even for stable Fast Ethernet connection.

 

[CraigS2]

I swapped out the cable for another. Same issue, the cable is fine. I have just about resigned myself to getting a wifi dongle for the PC. It's purely a download server, so NAT isn't an issue and I'll use the cable straight into the xbox.