Netgear D7000 VDSL modem/router

There must be a simple setting we are missing. Hopefully bits&bobs can shine some light on it. I'll have another look tonight/tomorrow and do some digging. What youview box is it?
 
ricke17 said:
Cheers - I can access the internet ok and provided log in details for the IPTV drop down menu bit too. It's quite frustrating - finally got a UK C/S number (0808 101 1230 FYI) and I will call them tomorrow. Thanks for your help so far, I really do appreciate it. Other forums I have posted on haven't replied at all. Am ready to chuck the thing out of the window shortly, so I best so rest up haha :-)
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I understand your frustration. I've spent hours and hours trying to get things working in the past then all of a sudden it just decides to work usually but inadvertently doing something you never meant to.

I hope you can get some useful information from the Netgear help tomorrow. I'll try and do what I can from this end.
 
I gather no joy from Netgear themselves?
I got a basic reply on another forum but all they said was to enter your details into the new router. Don't think they understand.
 
Ok so all setup and doing well so it seems.

I've already gained back my speed lost through the Asus DSL-AC68U. It had my line profile slowly edging down since the beginning of the month 74Mb to 68Mb to 67Mb now 66Mb. The SNR on the Asus was all over the place and that was with all the ESNP settings on along side the firmware apparently optimised for broadcom exchanges.

Instantly back up to my 74Mb profile with the Netgear, pings have dropped but only by a ms or two and the SNR is solid again.

I've been carrying out various speed tests as this is where the D6400 let me down. I'm pretty pleased with this now as even out in my garage (Out the house and down the drive I'm getting full speeds on AC WiFi. 69.7Mb Down and 18.1Mb up comapred to Asus 25Mb down and 18Mb up.

Away to test out the VPN function on Android as this is what I require. If that works fine then it looks like it is good bye Asus!

I can't seem to get DSL stats to work at the minute though and that is following my own guide lol.
 
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Right, Having a look at the settings just now.

If you click the advanced tab and look at the internet port, There should be an internet IP address and an IPTV address. I have an internet one but 0.0.0.0 for IPTV seeing as I don't have it enabled.

Then if you go to advanced tab, Setup then internet settings.

You have the drop down box for Internet and IPTV. What settings do you have in there?

What check boxes are enabled? If you could get a screenshot and blank out your username and password it may help. Is VLANID enabled and set to 101? (Not sure if that is what is required for IPTV but it wouldn't let me connect otherwise)
 
ricke17 said:
Great. And thanks again for your help so far!
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Not a problem at all. I've requested an email address for Netgear engineering team who are taking feedback from Beta testers or if they can point me in the direction of a beta tester in the UK who can report some little issues if we come across them.
 
There was nothing wrong in the end. It was a mistake on my part.
My SNR has been solid at around 6-6.1db.

The issue I saw with the SNR dropping to 5.5 was the modem holing onto a 74mb sync when my Max attainable was lowered due to interleaving levels reducing.
The only issue I had was setting a static IP which gave me an error setting up a VPN but I have since received a test firmware from Netgear so will need to test that when I get home.
 
I'll pass on what you have said and see if I hear anything back about it.
Yeah I know what you mean about the tap and tun issue. Apparently it's down to security issues.
 
marjohn56 said:
Thanks, that would be useful, it would certainly remove the need for me to run a seperate server on the LAN.

What is needed is the ability to have a table that the router checks first before forwarding the DNS requests, so a LAN device looking for lmail.*.com gets the LAN address rather than the WAN address; aliases would be useful too.

As I said, I dont suppose Netgear had SOHO in mind when the D7000 firmware was bing put together.

I don't quite understand the VPN policy they have used, why TUN only when iOS currently only supports TAP seems a very strange thing to do.:confused:
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Marjohn, can you elaborate a bit more on this. I've had a reply and all they asked was 'Do you mean the lmain.*.com is a private domain in LAN?'
I'm unsure what you meant either as its not a function I use. So more information would be great. There is a language barrier of sorts so the simpler the better.


As for iOS and android VPN support. I've been told this will be released early in 2016.
 
marjohn56 said:
Hmmm.. cannot find your PM, I must be having a moment!

Anyway, I'll try and keep it short.

I have a couple of servers on my LAN, I also have a static WAN IP, well it's a Sky virtual static in that it's a fixed DHCP address but that's an aside.

I won't post my real domain name as I don't really want lots of attempts to hack my system, so I'll use the name foobar.com.

So, the global DNS servers know of the address lmail.foobar.com, any device attempting to connect to that will get my WAN IP address. My router then forwards the relevent ports to the correct server.

Now, imagine I am sat at home, with my iPhone/Android whatever and they are now connected to the local LAN and not EE/Vodafone or an external WiFi network and I want to collect mail. The mail clients are told to goto lmail.foobar.com to get the mail, sadly they are still going to get the WAN IP because the D7000 is not equipped with a LAN DNS resolver that knows that lmail.foobar.com is actually sat at 192.168.1.30 and not at 88.123.453.34 ( not my real IP!), so it fails. The router itself cannot have the domain foobar.com becuase that is hosted elswhere, it does not need to though, all it needs to know is that the server lmail.foobar.com lives on its LAN, not outside of it.

Yes, I could set the fixed PC's to point to the local address but that won't work with the portable devices.

On my Vigor I could set up LAN DNS names so it would check them first before checking the global DNS servers, even my old ASUS running 3rd party firmware could do it.

Have a shone a little light on it?
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I'm guessing you were meant to quote me in this post? I can certianly pass that on. It is something I have never used but can ask to see what is said.
 
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