PLEEEEASE HELP (Router set up).

[svinto]

Being incredibly cheap when it comes to certain stuff made me go to DealMac (same as the one for PCs...ehh, but for Macs;) . I bought a "Corega, Cable/DSL router", it has web set -up and the whole shabang to make it easy for morons like myself to set it up. Well, I can't! I can't get to the setup page and I can't reach the internet through the routers WAN port.

Hooked it up with reg. ethernet cable from a "Alcatel Speed Touch HOME" dsl modem to the WAN port, put the ethernet cable from my computer in port one and nothing works, not with one computer connected, not with two or three (of course...). I'm sure it doesn't really matter, any of this, because this is the message I get from the Enternet Log when trying to connect:
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1/31/02 01:01:26: --- Begin Session ---
1/31/02 01:01:26: EnterNet version 1.09, © 1995-1999 Network TeleSystems, Inc.
1/31/02 01:01:26: •To log more details, press the Option key when you click Connect.
1/31/02 01:01:27: LCP: beginning negotiations
1/31/02 01:01:27: LCP: negotiations successful
1/31/02 01:01:27: PPP: authenticating using CHAP
1/31/02 01:01:27: CHAP: received CHAP challenge from host "BSNIC104"
1/31/02 01:01:28: CHAP: authentication successful, host says "CHAP authentication success, unit 193"
1/31/02 01:01:28: IPCP: beginning negotiations
1/31/02 01:01:28: IPCP: local IP address is 80.13.46.9
1/31/02 01:01:28: IPCP: remote IP address is 80.13.46.1
1/31/02 01:01:28: IPCP: primary DNS address is 193.252.19.3
1/31/02 01:01:28: IPCP: secondary DNS address is 193.252.19.4
1/31/02 01:01:28: IPCP: negotiations successful
1/31/02 09:54:58: LCP: too many unanswered echo requests, disconnecting

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Is this because I have not configured the router or is this because the ISP is doing what comcast is doing: Cracking down on "home sharing"?

I have read about ways of stopping the ISP pings from reaching more than the surface of my set-up and thus preventing them from not letting me connect. I read about this at the netgear site where they speak about stuff like this:

Go to menu 21, using telnet, set the ports...

Stuff, way over my head and I didn't really understand, but I suppose there is a way of tricking the ISP to not seeing more than what appears to be just a single computer.

Any suggestions will be extremely welcome.

Thanks for your help in advance

Sincerely

Svinto

[YeOldeStonecat]

You mention "Enternet Log".....leading me to believe you still have your PPPoE software, Enternet300, installed on your computer. The routers firmware supports PPPoE logons, and it's actually the router that logs on for you, not your PPPoE software on each computer. Often having PPPoE software on your computer will "conflict with" the PPPoE of your router, and prevent it from logging on properly. All computers connected to the router should have any PPPoE software uninstalled from them. For basic setup, just have TCP/IP set to "obtain automatically from a DHCP server"....reboot, log onto your routers web admin page, configure it's PPPoE logon section with your username/password, connect it, reboot your computer so it corrects sucks down the DNS information this time through DHCP (or just release/renew your IP if you know how), and you should be set.

[svinto]

Sorry for shouting above, I just had to, after following the instructions and actually seeing it work! We'll thank god for good, nice people with something behind the eye sockets (I happen to be one with just vacuum...). YeOldeStoneCat was so fast in replying that I'm completely amazed! Thank you so much! Peace in the house once again, finally we do not have to talk to eachother, just glue those eyes on the screen and cruise!

Thanks, really!

Svinto