Hi Ben. The other thing you will find on most modem diagnostic pages is a log viewing facility. It should give you a handle on what the modem has been attempting, and at what point things are failing. One possible trap I have seen people fall for before is the username. Usually it will be "username@bigpond.com" rather than just "username". Without the tail component, the DSLAM at the exchange won't forward the authentication details to the correct provider. At a quick glance, the username and password will seem to be correct. Things to check anyway. Regards, Morrie. -----Original Message----- From: luv-main [mailto:luv-main-bounces@luv.asn.au] On Behalf Of Daniel Jitnah Sent: Friday, 31 July 2015 8:57 PM To: bnis@fastmail.fm; Luv Main Subject: Re: adsl problems Hi Ben I dont know this particular modem. But all modems that I have come across have diagnostics functions accessible from the web interface. You will be able to test whether it connects to the outside world and to what extent. There should be a test for adls line status. Thats before any ip based connection is established. It should tell you things like connection status, adsl synchronisation status, max attainable connection rate, noise ratio etc. So if you see data and numbers there it should be connected. If you don't see figures then you have no connection. If you do then its likely an IP issue. Also the Telstra technician on the other side may be able to tell if there is a connection to your modem from their side. Daniel. On 31/07/15 20:37, bnis@fastmail.fm wrote:
On Fri, Jul 31, 2015, at 02:30 AM, Daniel Jitnah wrote:
Hi Ben,
Is your modem set to Bridge or PPPoE mode?
PPPoE is easier, and I assume it is here!
If PPPoE, you should not have to do anything, assuming that your modem is stock Telstra configuration and has dhcp-server on.
Set your PC to dhcp and let it connect and get an ip from the modem. That all you need to do.
Of course you want be able to connect to it if its ip 10.0.0.138 and you seem to have your IP 192.168.0.3 (different subnet).
Alternatively set your IP to 10.0.0.3 and you should be able to connect to it. But dhcp is easier and it should get routing and dns information etc automatically.
Cheers Daniel.
Thanks Daniel. Just after I sent the email I went back to the ethernet config and changed the BOOTPROTO to dhcp and rebooted. I got an address on the same network as the modem and got in through the browser! Failing to do that config before was an oversight.
The modem is in router mode by default and I thought I'd go with that for starters before I acquainted myself a bit more with running it from my computer in bridge mode.
Unfortunately, after getting into the modem through the browser, it still wouldn't connect to the internet. So, now that I sensed the problem was connection rather than me, I rang Telstra and suggested that the connection to the exchange may be a problem. My password and username were fine. I had to "infer" that the computer was Windows, but all the technician took me through was the browser's view of the modem - operating system was irrelevant. He was in the Phillipines and tried to re-set the server half a dozen times, and I reset the modem each time, but it still would not connect, so the latest is that he will have a technician look at the exchange here in Olinda. That's where it sits at the moment.
ben
On 31/07/15 19:13, bnis@fastmail.fm wrote:
I am unable to get my Telstra adsl working. I'm trying to upgrade from dial-up and I thought I did a lot of research, but I have failed to get anywhere with the adsl and I need help.
The adsl unit is a Technicolor modem/router TG799vac.
I hooked it up and the lights flashed but the Status and Internet lights remained red.
I tried to get into the unit with firefox and midori but both failed to reach the modem's address http://10.0.0.138 which is the address on the unit. I am running network.service and it's up. The config for my ethernet connection which goes into the ethernet socket on the modem is: [ben@til network-scripts]$ cat ifcfg-enp63s0 TYPE=Ethernet BOOTPROTO=none DEFROUTE=yes IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=no IPV6INIT=no NAME=enp63s0 UUID=6479f67e-53e7-4953-a796-cf3d3f770b2f ONBOOT=yes HWADDR=00:1E:0B:2C:8E:22 PEERDNS=yes PEERROUTES=yes IPADDR=192.168.0.3 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 USERCTL=yes NM_CONTROLLED=no PREFIX=24
This config was part of my home network and I didn't change it before I plugged everything in and powered up.
I tried to make a route to the modem with: #route add default gw 10.0.0.138 but I get "network is unreachable" but 'systemctl -a |grep network' shows network service loaded and active.
So, I'm stuck. In my research before hand I came across many posts saying: "just plug it in, use the browser to configure it and off you go." I did get comfort from that, but my experience is of failure. What can I do to get this modem working?
My distro is fedora 22 and I don't run a desktop, just a window manager and am used to doing most things on the command line. -- Thanks. ben
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