Wireless access problem

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Hi All,

I have a marconi premium combo adsl modem with ethernet, usb and wifi. My problem is setting up my wireless portion to connect to the internet. My ethernet portion works. Is their any setting in the firmware to change in order to connect to the internet.
 
Similar problem

Hi hkotze,

I am having the same problem, did you manage to fix it? If so, could you please mention how you did it.

Thanks
 
hkotze said:
Hi All,

I have a marconi premium combo adsl modem with ethernet, usb and wifi. My problem is setting up my wireless portion to connect to the internet. My ethernet portion works. Is their any setting in the firmware to change in order to connect to the internet.
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Your ethernet portion works..? and you are trying to connect to the internet via your wireless? Dude that is not going to work. Wireless takes the place of ethernet and you still need an adsl telephone line plugged into the router for the connection. this router is for ADSL not Wireless (eg. iburst)

If ive got this wrong, then wat you are saying is that your wireless isnt working between your computer and the router. I recommend disabling security to c if you can make a connection to an unsecure network. If that doesnt work, check to see if your wireless card actually detects a wireless network. If it doesnt, that router is toast. PS: those are bad routers :/
 
Hi Surv0,

The Telkom ADSL Premium Combo Wireless Modem is meant to support 4(RJ-45) ethernet connections as well as several wireless(802.11g) machines through a single ADSL line.

I have two machines linked up to the router over ethernet, which works fine, the routers DHCP Server assigns them each IP address's and seems to be fully functional.

Yesterday, when I tried to connect to the internet via a laptop over wifi, It established fine the first few times, but whenever I tried to access the internet, It took forever, or just hung. I noticed that I could easily access the routers webpage from the laptop(over wifi), but whenever I tried external webpages - nothing. I checked the other 2 machines, but they were working perfectly.

So I went to the website:http://www.marconisa.co.za/premium_combo_software_download.htm, and downloaded the new firmware - which was meant to 'Improve wireless/WiFi setting' and low and behold, after installing the firmware the router's dhcp server no longer seems to gives out IP Addresses to the wifi machines!( No IP Address could be assigned - limited network access-blah).

I've been checking the firewall settings - but there only seems to be a firewall from wan-lan (which seems to work) and not wan-wlan or router-wlan or whatever.

I've checked the security settings several times and tried to connect from different OS's and Latops, but no I haven't really messed around with different security methods other than WPA-Passkey TKIP (Due to having tremendous trouble getting other security settings to work well with OS X - I will try and change this though - thanks for the tip)

It does seem like a crummy router, but odd that the wireless just fried up (Seeing that it was 1/2 working to the router - but not to external sites)?? I am especially surprised by the software running on the router which is insanely confusing. It seems to complicate the most trivial things. My feeling is that it is a bug on the router software side created by a confused programmer.

Anyway, was just hoping for a quick fix. In the interim, I have taken my old wireless router and slapped it on one of the ethernet connections. And then disabled the wireless on the Telkom router (12th option down on the Wireless Configuration page, just below the default Transmit Key option??? - Crazy).

If anyone has managed to get one of these guys to work, I would really appreciate how its done.
 
upgrade the firmware

Hi All

i tried eberything and the only thing that works is to upgrade the firmware and all works 100%.

Correction, not all is working 100%. All that does work now is that the bridge works. I tested this. When a dhcp request comes in the wireles port the DHCP request is never answered on the router itself. To test i added a dhcp on the one of the ethernet switch ports and da da the wireless now gets DHCP but not from the crappy combo router but from a dhcp server attached to the router's ethernet port. I suppose there is something in the settings to make sure that combos dhcp server answers dhcp request from wireless endpoints -BUT i havent managed to find anything as yet, not even through the telnet interface which is a lot more flexible than the web frontend configuration?????????????????
 
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WiFi to router and internet conection

Hi All,

I initially posted the problem. I managed to sort the problem out. It seems as if the router loose the network key for the wifi security when you switch the router off. At this point I first connect via Ethernet or use my other machine to change the network key to be the same as my laptop wireless network setup, why because I don't know what the default network key is on the router. I then activate my wireless function on my laptop and it connects to the router, assign IP and connect to the Internet. I can even connect to other computers on my ethernet lan as well as my network printer.

A bit crappy to re-enter the network key but other than that it work fine. The range is a bit crappy, 0 - 10 meters excellent signal strength, 11 - 20 meters good signal strength, 21 - 30 meters low signal strength and 31 - no connection.

When I move to my new double story house I will have a ethernet cable from my adsl modem router to apoint down stairs as well as a ethernet cable to my 1st floor and then have access points, netgear WPN802 or better to cover the rest of the house.The house is mainly open plan at the bottom but upstairs all the bedrooms with walls, but the access point will be close to all bedrooms except one but a good access point like the netgear WPN802 should do the trick.

Any recommendations will be appreciated.
 
Hkotze

I've got same router and it had worked great so far. 2 solutions for you - firstly dont turn off your router (I don't) then you only have to restup after poweroutages. 2ndly the default network key can be found on a lable at the bottom of the router.
 
Default network key

I know. That is the one I use, but for some reason the two don't match.
 
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