Re: [sheflug] Help with broadband

[David Willington <david.willington [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 15:01 +0000, J Simpson V21 wrote:
> Hi
> I have just signed up for broadband.
> 
> I've put it all together, but it doesn't appear to be working.
> 
> I'm running fedora core 2, using kde
> modem router netgear 834
> 
> It has green lights where it is supposed to and the status page looks 
> like it is connected, but when I try to download emails or go to a 
> website I get eror messages.


Fingers crossed I get this right - this is my first reply to a question. 
I've got the same router (DG834G). I've assumed that your router's set
up with its default settings. If you can browse to http://192.168.0.1
then your connection to the router is fine. After you've supplied the
username and password (as per your manual) there's a 'diagnostics' link
on the left. Follow this and you should get an option to ping an ip
address. Try pinging 64.233.167.99 (google.com). If you can ping this
then your router's connected to the internet. 

Back on the diagnostics page you should see a couple of entries for DNS
servers. If they're there you should be able to lookup www.google.com
(in the 'internet name' box) and get an ip address, in which case DNS is
working.

On the 'Basic setup' link you should have NAT (Network Address
Translation) enabled so that packets can get across from the LAN
ethernet interface to the broadband interface.

There's other things that could be wrong - I had a power cut which
knocked out some functionality. Rebooting and resetting the router had
no effect and it had to be binned.
 
> At present I am still using my dial up to get online.  Please let me 
> know what information would be relevant to get this sorted out.
> 
> One other question before I sort it out, how do I make myself secure 
> with a broadband connection?  I have changed the password for the modem 
> router to something with numbers and letters.  What else do I have to do?
You can disable remote management on the router (under the 'Remote  
 management' link) which should stop people altering your router  
 settings from the internet. Inbound services are denied by default
  (so if you want to set up eg a webserver you'll have to open the
  appropriate port on the router), but you could disable unnecessary
 outbound services. By default all outbound services are allowed.

hope all this helps.

David Willington


> Regards
> 
> Janet


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