Help! bridging together O2 wireless box ii and WRT54G

tankskun

tankskun

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Hey all, I really need some help if anyone has been in the same situation or knows about this kind of setup.

I have:
O2 wireless box ii (TG585 v7)
WRT54G v5.0 (DD-WRT v24-sp2 07/22/09 micro)

So was reading up on recommendations that setting these two together by putting the O2 into bridge mode, would be excellent way of getting a reliable connection and with the bonus of Qos to help with limiting housemates bandwith.

Have been trying to enable bridge mode on the O2 box following this guide:
http://nothingbutreboots.com/2009/hacking-the-o2-wireless-box-ii

but its seems my adsl2+ does not reconnect, even after leaving alone for 1/2 hour.

Please any thoughts or good links to get this setup working?

many thanks:)

EDIT for anyone reading maybe helpful.
(ADSL2+ does not show reconnecting on the o2wirelessbox.lan web interface and also the internet light on the box will be turned off completly)
 
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why not just disable the wifi on the o2 box, set it's LAN interface to use 10.0.0.x range, disable it's DHCP, set the 'WAN' IP of the WRT54G to 10.0.0.2 and the LAN side of things to 192.168.0.x and let that handle the routing.
 
Not quite sure I understand that fully but want to try, so...

set O2 box LAN interface to 10.0.0.1 disable DHCP
set WRT54G WAN ip to 10.0.0.2 and the LAN to 192.168.0.1

?

I don't get why you put the x's in there

im too noob sorry.
 
i put the x's to indicate using that range - use whatever actual IP address you want :)

but yes, do what you've put above
 
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Did try the method and when putting in 10.0.0.1 it automatically added /24

Still set that up but it does not work. I feel like giving up and looking for a new router all together.
 
Greetings,

What you can do it connect the WRT54G via cable,
Login to the router page and set the ip of the router to 192.168.1.253 apply that,
Then turn the pc off and back to to get the new gateway address,
Log back in to the router page and disable the firewall on the WRT54G apply that then disable dhcp,

Once that is done power down the WRT54G connect the eathernet from the WRT54G to the o2 box,

and power WRT54G back on,

Connect to the wireless or wired connection on the WRT54G

This is how to linked my old BT Homehum 2.0 to my old O2 wireless box ii
This worked a treat also kept wireless on both boxes on,
Any wireless b/g devices connected to the o2 box and wireless n devices connected to the BT HH

On a 20 meg sync line i got a thoughput of 18+ meg
Lowest i seen my speed was 16.5
 
tankskun said:
Have been trying to enable bridge mode on the O2 box following this guide:
http://nothingbutreboots.com/2009/hacking-the-o2-wireless-box-ii

but its seems my adsl2+ does not reconnect, even after leaving alone for 1/2 hour.

Please any thoughts or good links to get this setup working?

many thanks:)
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Default your router, holding the reset button for 10 seconds until all the ethernet lights illuminate, then release.

Follow the above guide, and plug your router in to port 1 of the O2 box. Also, as your DD-WRT WAN port MAC will be different to whatever was plugged in before, you'll have to wait for a new IP lease, OR simply clone the MAC of whatever was previously connected.

I've done this exact setup recently and it works well :)
 
thanks benftl its HAS WORKED! WOOOOOOOOT
I'm not sure why it did not work earlier, likely to be that the DD-WRT WAN port MAC was taking ages for a new IP lease.

I simply cloned the MAC from the DD-WRT control panel and a few secs later voila.

FINALLY after a whole day of headache it has worked, and can now start working with the QOS setting to restrict my housemate hogging all the bandwith streaming movies.

THANKS AGAIN! :D also another thanks to steven_belfast for your guide, that was my final backup plan if it did fail.
 
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