which router?

matkeys · 6 Jul 2010 at 20:53

just got given two routers from a mate after saying my range is *****, and havent got round to buying a 'N' router,

but

been given a tompson speedtouch st585v6

or the netgear dg834gt

which will give the better range and wireless speed.

cheers

(i did look on google before im flamed. i can find which is better, im feeling netgear but not sure)

matkeys · 6 Jul 2010 at 21:13

ok,this was my thinking too. what does the DGTeam firmware do?

matkeys · 6 Jul 2010 at 23:19

Ok cheers, is there any way i can brick it or crash it permently?

matkeys · 7 Jul 2010 at 00:56

Ok thanks. Yer its via a cable. The reason im willing even to try any router other then i have is because im on my ipod touch directly above above the front room upstairs and im getting two bars. Even 2 bars sitting downstairs sometimes like 3-4 meters away. I think the router is a bad one or the wifi ariel inside is buggered either way the wifi performance is poor

matkeys · 7 Jul 2010 at 08:44

^ im getting round to getting a linksys wrt unit,

the one i have is a Netgear DG934G

every were ive read about wireless range its all ways put down on the wireless performance. i mean im not asking it much and it cant even give me full signal up stairs directly above the unit.

theres no power lines or motorways i live in a semi rural place with the odd passing cass id say about 5-10 a minute in the morning and evening and the rest like 3-4 a minute, so not busy. my middle wall is plaster with the stairs running though. and the walls arent incredibly thick i would say of a normal thickness for a normal 1940's/50's house

see i get full signal every were in the front room or 2 bars and 2 dropping to 1 in some places in the kitchen and 1 bar 20foot to the garden,were it says table and beyond that i get nothing but 2 bars 10 feet upstairs!!!. its not beside any electical units, telephones etc.

matkeys · 7 Jul 2010 at 09:04

lol i thought so,

oh with this dgt firmware is it best to update the router via the web panal? as the instructions say via recover unitlity for win xp 32 users, so im guess it wont work that way on the win 7 64bit?

matkeys · 7 Jul 2010 at 09:09

ok.ill give that a go, will the web panal and updating via that not work?

matkeys · 7 Jul 2010 at 09:37

yer, right, little problem, updated the router, and it didnt work before update but it shows no internet. is there any drivers needed?

matkeys · 7 Jul 2010 at 10:14

just says no internet access on the tool bar, trouble shooting says there may be a cable unplugged but i tried swapping to a normal cable and no diffrence, and it works on the old netgear, so im no stumped to why it wont just connect

i would sugest a remote assistance with teamplayer but as i have not connection thats impossible!

matkeys · 7 Jul 2010 at 10:43

Router lights are all green and web panal says connected, i dont understand why it wont work! Im hijacking my mates wifi next door to try and solve this

matkeys · 7 Jul 2010 at 11:37

no in cmd but yes in router ping part, im fed up now, it aint straight forward or atleast workable. i know it works as it was used before. any way heres so screen shoots ive put together to hopefully see what the problem is, main thing i see this the chap, but that usserly means user name but ive got it set as no username and password needed. any how please tell me if there is something wrong

matkeys · 7 Jul 2010 at 12:14

youve lost me. i only know a little!!!

how can i do the above

i got my old netgear back on now shall i show ipconfig for that?

matkeys · 7 Jul 2010 at 12:29

tolien said:
On top of what DJMK4 said, if you're with Sky you do need a username and password and Sky won't give it to you. You'll need to extract it from the router or there's apparently a website that can generate them.

interesting. so any ideas on the website that could do so, or how to get it from the router?

matkeys · 7 Jul 2010 at 12:33

ok found this think this may be worth a go?

Sky router password generator

Username: 001B2F97B79E@skydsl
Password: 1d5dede2eb
Default WPA network key: PZXTVYWF

using https://www.cm9.net/skypass/

matkeys · 7 Jul 2010 at 12:48

yes its a netgears and my way didnt work!!!

matkeys · 7 Jul 2010 at 12:53

DJMK4 said:
Try the guide I sent you a second ago, that will get your adsl credentials off your old router (assuming its a netgear?)

niether http://192.168.0.1/setup.cgi?todo=p...ybox grep ppoa_ /tmp/nvram > /www/netgear.cfg or http://192.168.0.1/netgear.cfg do no work, both say page not found

so that guide dont work!!!

matkeys · 7 Jul 2010 at 12:57

i did it another way round and this is what i got!!

[130003]"User Name"= [130004]"Password"=

matkeys · 7 Jul 2010 at 13:09

yes the above is from the config file

can i not back up this router, then restore the file to the other router?

matkeys · 7 Jul 2010 at 13:10

# BSkyB DG934G Text Format Configure File
#
# FW Version V2.02.44
#
# Usage:
# # value list or syntax
# [index]"variable"=value

#< Wireless Settings >
[40001]"Name (SSID)"=sky1
# 0 - 14
[40003]"Channel"=2
# 0: g & b 1: b only 3: g only
[40004]"Mode"=0
# 0

ff 1

n
[40005]"Enable Wireless Access Point"=1
# 0

ff 1

n
[40006]"Allow Broadcast of Name (SSID)"=1
# 0

ff 1

n
[40007]"Wireless Isolation"=0
# 0

ff 1:wep 2:wpa 5:802.1x
[40008]"Security Options"=2
#< Wireless Station Access List >
# 0

ff 1

n
[40101]"Turn Access Control On"=0
# MAC+name
[40102]"Trusted Wireless Stations"=
#< WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) >
# 1: Open System 2: Shared Key 3: Automatic
[40201]"Authentication Type"=3
# 0 64 or 128
[40202]"Encryption Strength"=
# 1 2 3 4
[40203]"Key Index"=1
[40204]"Key 1"=
[40205]"Key 2"=
[40206]"Key 3"=
[40207]"Key 4"=
#< WPA-PSK >
# (8 ~ 64 characters)
[40301]"Network Key"=matandkirsty
#< WPA-802.1x >
[40601]"Radius Server Name/IP Address"=
[40602]"Radius Port"=1812
[40603]"Shared Key"=
#< Logs >
# 0

ff 1

n
[50001]"Attempted access to blocked sites"=1
# 0

ff 1

n
[50002]"Connections to the Web-based interface of this Router"=1
# 0

ff 1

n
[50003]"Router operation"=1
# 0

isable 2:Send to Syslog server
[50005]"Syslog"=0
[50006]"Send to this Syslog server IP address"=
#< Block Sites >
# 0:Never 1:Always 2

er Schedule
[60001]"Keyword Blocking"=1
[60002]"Block Sites Containing these Keywords or Domain Names"=
# 0

ff 1

n
[60003]"Allow Trusted IP Address to Visit Blocked Sites"=0
[60004]"Trusted IP Address"=
#< Firewall Rules >
# ENABLE:SERVICE_NAME:ACTION:LAN:WAN:LOG
#
# ENABLE: 0=on or 1=off
# SERVICE_NAME: Actual Service in service table
# ACTION: 0:BLOCK always 1:BLOCK by schedule 2:ALLOW always 3:ALLOW by schedule
# LAN: 0/0: Any a.b.c.d: Single 1.2.3.4-5.6.7.8: Range
# WAN: 0/0: Any a.b.c.d: Single 1.2.3.4-5.6.7.8: Range
# LOG: 0:Never 1:Always 2: Match 3: Not Match
# ex: 1:Any(ALL):2:192.168.0.250:0/0:1
[70001]"Inbound Rule"=
# The Same as Inbound Rule
[70002]"Outbound Rule"=

matkeys · 7 Jul 2010 at 13:11

#< Services >
# NAME

ROTOCOL:START_PORT-END_PORT
#
# PROTOCOL: tcp udp both all
# ex: Any(TCP):tcp:1-65535
[80001]"Service Table"=
#< Schedule >
# DAY:START_TIME-END_TIME ex:1111111:00:00-24:00
[90001]"Schedule"=1111111:00:00-24:00
#< Time Zone >
# UI (-12 ~ GMT ~ +12)
[90101]"Time Zone"=GMTb
# System (GMT+12 ~ GMT-12)
[90102]"Time Zone"=GMT+0
# 0

ff 1

n
[90103]"Daylight Savings Time"=
# 0

ff 1

n
[90104]"Use this NTP Server"=0
[90105]"NTP Server"=
#< Set Password >
[110001]"Username"=admin
[110002]"Password"=sky
# 0 ~ 99
[110003]"Login times out"=5
#< WAN Setup >
# 0

ff 0

n
[120003]"Port Scan and DOS Protection"=1
# 0

ff 1

n
[120004]"Enable DMZ Server"=0
[120005]"DMZ Server"=
# 0

ff 1

n
[120006]"Respond to Ping on Internet WAN Port"=1
[120007]"MTU Size"=1500
#< Dynnamic DNS >
# 0

ff 1

n
[130001]"Use a Dynamic DNS Service"=0
[130002]"Host Name"=
[130003]"User Name"=
[130004]"Password"=
# 0

ff 1

n
[130005]"Use Wildcards"=0
#< LAN IP Setup >
#< LAN TCP/IP Setup >
[140101]"IP Address"=192.168.0.1
[140102]"IP Subnet Mask"=255.255.255.0
[140103]"Broadcast IP Address"=192.168.0.255
# 0

ff 1

n
[140104]"Access Router Management Interface on additional port"=0
[140105]"Access LAN Port Number"=8080
#< RIP >
# 0:none in:In Only out:Out Only both:Both
[140201]"RIP Direction"=0
# 1:RIP-1 2B:RIP-2B 2M:RIP-2M
[140202]"RIP Version"=1
#< DHCP Server >
# 0

ff 1

n
[140301]"Use Router as DHCP Server"=1
[140302]"Starting IP Address"=192.168.0.2
[140303]"Ending IP Address"=192.168.0.254
# Name;IP;MAC
[140304]"Address Reservation"=
#< Remote Management >
# 0

ff 1

n
[150001]"Turn Remote Management On"=0
# 1:single 2:range 3:everyone
[150002]"Allow Remote Access By"=3
[150003]"Only This Computer"=
[150004]"IP Address Range Start"=
[150005]"IP Address Range End"=
[150006]"Port Number"=8080
#< UPnP >
# 0

ff 1

n
[170001]"Turn UPnP On"=1
[170002]"Advertisement Period"=30
[170003]"Advertisement Time To Live"=4
#< SNMP >
# 0

ff 1

n
[190001]"Turn SNMP On"=0
# 0

ff 1

n
[190002]"Disable Local Web Admin Access"=
[190003]"Read Community Name"=
[190004]"System Contact"=
[190005]"System Name"=
[190006]"System Location"=