hey guys
I have a spare adsl router (o2 wireless router) and I wanted to donate it to a friend and his wife to use as their wireless router.
This is the issue. They have PPPoE connection which provides adsl straight out of an ethernet port in the wall. Their internet is provided by the building they live in.
Ordinarily this is easy, just plug in a router and you have wireless internet all over but plugging a an ADSL router isn't as simple.
The connection from the wall has to go into one of the ethernet ports on the router itself, bypassing the DSL port which the router expects to receive an internet connection from. This means the internet is being routed through an ethernet port and is thus causing issues.
The only way I can get computers in their house to pickup an internet connection from this router is to do disable/enable device for wireless cards (basically Repair option). But this is unstable and often drops the connection again.
There must be a better way to do this? To sum it up.
Internet is provided through a socket in the wall
Ethernet cable is plugged into the wall and then into one of the Ethernet ports of the router (cannot be plugged into ADSL port, wrong head type)
Internet is only provided (unstable) by repairing devices in this way
So how can I set it up to properly act as a router of the internet connection being provided through one of it's own ethernet ports?
Thanks
I have a spare adsl router (o2 wireless router) and I wanted to donate it to a friend and his wife to use as their wireless router.
This is the issue. They have PPPoE connection which provides adsl straight out of an ethernet port in the wall. Their internet is provided by the building they live in.
Ordinarily this is easy, just plug in a router and you have wireless internet all over but plugging a an ADSL router isn't as simple.
The connection from the wall has to go into one of the ethernet ports on the router itself, bypassing the DSL port which the router expects to receive an internet connection from. This means the internet is being routed through an ethernet port and is thus causing issues.
The only way I can get computers in their house to pickup an internet connection from this router is to do disable/enable device for wireless cards (basically Repair option). But this is unstable and often drops the connection again.
There must be a better way to do this? To sum it up.
Internet is provided through a socket in the wall
Ethernet cable is plugged into the wall and then into one of the Ethernet ports of the router (cannot be plugged into ADSL port, wrong head type)
Internet is only provided (unstable) by repairing devices in this way
So how can I set it up to properly act as a router of the internet connection being provided through one of it's own ethernet ports?
Thanks
