DGteam firmware issues

[AllyM]

I have recently acquired a Netgear DG834 v4 router and have been experimenting with using the adslctl command over telnet to the router to reduce the SNR margin and gain higher sync speeds, with satisfactory results.
The thing is, I don't want to leave the router on 24/7 and it is a bit of a pain having to re-adjust every time so I thought that using DGTeam firmware in the router would mean my settings would be saved.
The problem is that with DGTeam firmware installed, the router appears to sync ok, says it's connected, gets dynamic IP address, gets DNS IP addresses, assigns IP addresses to PCs connected to it etc. yet no web pages will load at all. With standard Netgear firmware no problems. Does anyone have any idea what I might be doing wrong?

 

[AllyM]

If you're on RADSL (up to 8MB), you need to leave your router connected 24/7 or BT will drop your BRAS profile, assuming that you lost connection because your sync rate is too high.

It's actually TalkTalk up to 24Mb.

I don't really want to have to re-arrange things to leave my router on 24/7. I've always assumed that most people switch off all their PC equipment at the end of the day as I do. After all, why would you need to leave it on unless you are running a server which has to be permanently online.

 

[AllyM]

What's wrong is user error :-/

Netgear assumed people would realise their equipment was not designed to be turned off every night when they discovered there was no power button. Router's are the only thing most people leave on however I think you'll find a lot of people leave their pcs on 24/7 (too each his own).

Start rearranging.

I honestly would never have imagined that anyone would routinely leave their router on 24/7 except for a small minority of people who require their server to be online 24/7.

I don't see any point in leaving my PC running when I'm in bed or out of the house so I switch it off, and along with that I don't see the point in having the router on if no PC is on.

Don't have a power socket near the master ADSL socket?

Well you see, at the moment I don't have every piece of equipment in individually switched sockets. I have the router plugged into the same extension sockets as other equipment such as main PC, monitor, printer. That's what I meant when I said I'll need to think about how I'm going to re-arrange things if I decide to try leaving the router always on. As I said, until getting replies on here, it seemed perfectly logical that when the PC was switched off, the router was switched off.

 

[AllyM]

AllyM, would you mind posting a screenshot of your modem stats page, or anything else you feel may be useful? I've played with a few DGTeam f/w modems so might be able to help you.

Thanks for the offer of help.

I've looked into the rouer stats pages again in more detail and I think I may have a clue to go on.

The only difference I see which may be of interest is the MAC addresses.
Using standard Netgear firmware the ADSL port and LAN port have different MAC addresses (which makes sense to me). The addresses are similar with only the end being different, the ADSL port address ends 6F while the LAN port address ends 6E
With the DGTeam firmware installed however, both the ADSL and LAN ports have the same MAC address (the one ending 6E).

Do you think this may be the cause of the problem? If so, do you know what has happend and what I need to do?

 

[AllyM]

Ok, I'm now online with the DGTeam firmware.

I eventually figured out how to change the MAC address and that fixed the problem.