Belkin Wireless Router + NTL STB = no joy
Iâ₠™m helping a friend to get his NTL broadband (via a Set Top Box) to go through a Belkin wireless router to give him wireless internet in his house. And Iâ₠™m am not having any joy.
He bought the Belkin before he got NTL and therefore the router is a bit over the top for what he needs. Itâ₠¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s called F5D7632-4 and apart from sporting the usual 4-port wired & 8012.11b and g-support it also contains an ADSL-modem.
Since the feed from the STB is in the form of an Ethernet-cable Iâ₠™ve deducted that the cable-modem is integral to the STB and therefore Iâ₠™ve tried to hook it straight to one of the four Ethernet-ports on the router.
By the way, I started by setting this up by hooking the Ethernet, via the USB-converter, straight to the computer and registered on the NTL homepage. So I know the internet is working.
So, back to what Iâ₠™ve tried. After having hooked up the Ethernet-cable from the STB to the router I switched the router on and got the usual green lights for power, wireless and the port into which the cable was going. So far so good.
Iâ₠™ve installed a USB-thingy to give the computer wireless access and managed to connect to the router (the usual 192.168.2.1-stuff). But I get no internet-connection.
In the setup of the router thereÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šà ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s some text on the status of the internet-connection and that just stays on †œNOT CONNECTEDââ‚ ¬Â despite my attempts at connecting. When running the Wizard this gives me various options of whether itâ₠¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s PPPoE, PPPoA, Static IP, etc. Then thereÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šà ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s the username, password bit and whether Iâ₠™m on a DHCP or manual IP/ Gateway, etc. All the usual stuff. But nothing works. Itâ₠¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s still not connecting.
Iâ₠™ve read some threads saying that I have to clone the MAC-address of the registered computer (or was it the STBs modem?) but I canââ‚ ¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢t for my life find the option in the setup for the router (and, yes, Iâ₠™ve got the latest firmware version) so Iâ₠™m assuming it canââ‚ ¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢t be done on this specific model.
NTL support wonââ‚ ¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢t give me any advice, and why should they †“ itâ₠¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s not their piece of kit, and Belkin claims I have to use a router with a cable model. But what really bugs me is the fact that the modem is in the STB so surely itâ₠¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s only a case of channelling my already existing connection to the internet from the STB to the router to make it wireless? Surely a router with a built-in Cable-modem wonââ‚ ¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢t make a difference? I mean, Iâ₠™m bypassing the ADSL-modem by hooking straight into the 4-port Ethernet part of the router, arenââ‚ ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢t I?
I really need to hear from someone whoââ‚ ¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s tried this with similar kit and get some form of comfort that Iâ₠™m doing this the right way before asking my friend to chuck his new router and buy another oneââ‚ ¬Ãƒâ€šÃ‚¦ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢ ¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚¬Ã‚¦
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