Freesco

Street · 21 Dec 2006 at 19:05

I've heard some good things about Freesco and have been having trouble with my Netgear router lately so have decided to try it out. I've built myself a little PC that I can use and have tried to set it up, but have so far had no luck. I've just managed to blow up my PSU now so I'm putting the project on hold until tomorrow until I can get another PSU.

Was just wondering if anyone has had any experience of setting up a Freesco box with Telewest? And if they could give me a few tips on how to do it!

Cheers,
Andy

Street · 21 Dec 2006 at 20:41

Just the person I was hoping would respond!

Did a search for Freesco and your name cropped up a bit.

For some reason only one of my NICs is showing up on there so I assume I've got a dodgy one, need to grab another in work tomorrow to test it with. Also what do I select as the connection type right at the start of the config? Do I chose ethernet router? Do I need to put in any of the Telewest DNS servers or will my modem supply those automatically?

Cheers

Street · 21 Dec 2006 at 20:46

Ahha cheers, that'll teach me for replying without refreshing the page and looking! Ignore my post above.. Think your post has sorted me out. I'll have to wait untill tomorrow to get a spare PSU and NIC from work anyway so I'll let you know how I get on.

Thanks

Street · 21 Dec 2006 at 22:42

Well I got a bit further.. My PSU came back to life, knew there was a reason I always bought Enermax! Also I don't think my NIC is faulty, think it was me being stupid and not setting it up correctly. I've got the two NICs set up and when I boot up, it gives me an IP address from my cable modem. However, I can't seem to get the LAN side working. It won't give out DHCP or anything over the other NIC so none of my PCs can access the internet.

Street · 21 Dec 2006 at 23:39

I formatted my floppy.. Started again from scratch and I'm now sending this message through my shiny new Freesco router!

It was fairly straight forward in the end.

Thanks for your help, now I'm going to tweak it a bit and have a play.. Cheers!

Street · 22 Dec 2006 at 00:21

Nice, might have to try that. Don't think I enabled Telnet in Freesco, can't seem to telnet into it. Am having trouble with port forwarding as well.. It just doesn't seem to work. But all that can wait until tomorrow, I'm happy I've got it working, and hopefully it should be a lot better than my Netgear router which kept crashing and dropping the connection! Thanks again for your help! Time for me to get some sleep now.

Street · 23 Dec 2006 at 00:47

Yeh I figured out the port forwarding, I hadn't enabled it in the setup bit so when I tried to use it via the web login it wasn't working properly. Got the SSH bit working as well so I can use Putty to log in.

Seems to be going better than my Netgear router so far.. Hasn't crashed at all. By now MSN would have logged me out and in several times, but I've stayed connected. Going to leave it running for the next week while I go visit my parents for christmas.