I recently signed up for ADSL2+. I could hardly wait for the blazing fast Internet connection after years of wireless speed. Don't get me wrong, wireless Internet is good. However, the speed just can't cope with information bandwidth nowadays.
Five days of waiting was now over. The modem arrived from the ISP and they confirmed my line was now activated. Goodie, goodie, goodie. I wired the modem to my laptop Ethernet port, turned everything on, the modem lit up and several seconds later I was part of the world. It was blazing fast. Now, next step, let's go wireless!
Ok, I didn't mention one thing before. I had a wireless router. I bought it a while ago and had been using it happily with my soon-to-be-departed wireless modem. When I signed up with the new ISP I decided to buy just a simple modem and I would just link it to this old wireless router. After all, any Tom, Dick and Harry can connect a modem to a router.
Well, I wouldn't be blogging this if there was no drama. The wireless connection was temperamental. Dialing up PPPoE was always successful but there wasn't always Internet connection. Sometimes only after several connects did it manage to connect to the cloud. Some days of frustration later I rang up the ISP who, after running diagnostic and seeing no issue, advised me to contact the wireless router company since the ISP didn't support devices not purchased from them. She did notice one thing, that is she saw 2 connections coming from different IP addresses. She also mentioned something about setting the modem into a bridging mode. I had no idea what that was about.
I then rang the wireless router company. The technician advised me to upgrade the modem firmware. He also mentioned about bridging the modem. Adding one and one together I then did some googling and found this link http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=814956. The epiphany was that I didn't just get a simple modem when I bought it. It was also a router.
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