Eircom Broadband - Router information?

TouchingVirus

Signed up for eircom broadband, have the line and the wireless router about 3 weeks. Was told the broadband would enabled today but we've no router password or WEP key (really wanna get over to WPA as soon as..). Can anybody let me know how they pass on the info?

Stuxnet

are you connected to net?, i dont think eircom gave me my key, i dont remember, you dont need a password either, but i know if you connect to the modem via ethernet, go to http://192.168.1.254/ your routers address
click wireless, and you will see the wep key for your wireless, works for me !!

TouchingVirus

Dont think so.

The DSL light on the modem keeps flashing green. There's no light on the "internet". Visiting 192.168.1.254 produces a login screen with some details filled in (eircom@eircom.net and a password) and when I submit it tells me the DSL connection is down.

Gonna ring tomorrow

dub45

TouchingVirus wrote: »

Dont think so.

The DSL light on the modem keeps flashing green. There's no light on the "internet". Visiting 192.168.1.254 produces a login screen with some details filled in (eircom@eircom.net and a password) and when I submit it tells me the DSL connection is down.

Gonna ring tomorrow

But you can use that access to change your security from wep to wpa and pick a new password.

Thor

TouchingVirus wrote: »

Dont think so.

The DSL light on the modem keeps flashing green. There's no light on the "internet". Visiting 192.168.1.254 produces a login screen with some details filled in (eircom@eircom.net and a password) and when I submit it tells me the DSL connection is down.

Gonna ring tomorrow

if it tells you your dsl in down it means your line isnt ready yet for the broadband or eircom havent activated it yet.

the details you see on the screen are the login details for eircom broadband and the password there would be broadband1.

if your line was meant to be ready i would ring eircom and tell them that its not working.

also you can tell if it is active if the green dsl light blinks for awhile and then stays on green, that means the dsl is active and you are connected to eircom.

once you are up and running to change the wireless settings just go to 3D wireless on the router page(192.168.1.254) and then either copy the wep code to your notepad or something or change it to wpa as you said you prefered.

if you have any trouble just leave a comment here and i will reply as soon as i see it.

TouchingVirus

Thanks guys, the DSL light flashes green and then goes off and the cycle repeats itself

Because of the whole "Your DSL is not synced" error message I can't log into the router to change to WPA or set up port forwarding :P

dub45

TouchingVirus wrote: »

Thanks guys, the DSL light flashes green and then goes off and the cycle repeats itself

Because of the whole "Your DSL is not synced" error message I can't log into the router to change to WPA or set up port forwarding :P

Your bb does not have to be activated to log into the router.

TouchingVirus

That's what I was thinking, but I tried it briefly and the DSL Sync error is all I got after submitting the login form. I like to think I'm not computer illiterate given I'm doing Computer Science

Thor

if you go onto your router and you see the login page, look at the top left of the page you you should see a link to home or something of the sort. click on that without clicking on the submit button and you should get into the main menu to change the settings.

dub45

TouchingVirus wrote: »

That's what I was thinking, but I tried it briefly and the DSL Sync error is all I got after submitting the login form. I like to think I'm not computer illiterate given I'm doing Computer Science

The mind doth truly boggle!!

There should be a list of options on the left side of the page when you log on. I think it might be under 'advanced' but cant be sure.

Do they not teach you to explore on these courses?:)

TouchingVirus

dub45 wrote: »

Do they not teach you to explore on these courses?:)

Heh, my only disclaimer was that I did mention in my post that I had a brief attempt to figure it out, like 2 minutes on a Vista laptop at around 12am, I'll give it a decent go when I get home today

mickzer

Did you use the CD they sent you?
That will test your connection for you.

mickzer.

nilhg

try http://192.168.1.254/indexRES.htm

I think, defaults are
username: admin
Password: admin

TouchingVirus

Apparently we've had broadband enabled since the 19th, the tech guy told us to lose the splitter and jack it into the wall - voila, DSL light is solid green

These are the stats I'm getting, no idea if they're good but all speedtests are maxing the connection out

Line State 	Up
Modulation 	DMT
Data Path 	Interleave

 
  	Downstream 	Upstream
Max Allowed Speed (kbps) 	3072 	384
SN Margin (dB) 	9.00 	18.00
Line Attenuation (dB) 	37.50 	21.50
CRC Errors 	48 	1