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# A solution to my DI-524 and DSL-302g issues
So that google might pick this up and offer aid to future generations: Optusnet, DI-524 wireless router, DSL-302g modem, internet access.
As I mentioned earlier, I had the wi-fi network working, but no net access. The router didn’t not appear to be talking to the modem correctly. I didn’t bother calling Optusnet tech support because they weren’t going to help anyway, seeing as how what I was doing was unsupported by them. I was routing around all their attempts to make me their bitch in perpetuity.
So I called D Link tech support and had a solution in a few minutes. My first mistake was trying to use PPPoE(Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet) for the WAN connection. I should have been using Dynamic IP and allowing the modem to handle the PPPoE connection. I then had to change the MTU setting from 1500 to 1400, apply the settngs and reboot the router. Connection was then achieved and I proceeded to start opening ports for Bittorrent &c.
I wonder how the fuck it was that I could have worked out this voodoo without being told. The Dynamic IP thing I could have had working, since the router may actually have auto-detected it anyway; it didn’t give any indication it had auto-detected and I changed it to PPPoE because the description said that is what most DSL connections require. But the MTU bit…wah?
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# haha
bwahaha. D-Link make hospital hardware which is distributed by Optus – we are all going to die.
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# re: A solution to my DI-524 and DSL-302g issues
It’s a very odd unit that DI-524. From what I can see in the manual, it has a specific WAN port in the back, 4 lan ports and of course the wifi, no phone line cos it’s not a modem. But, it does have a pppoe client. So, the idea is you plug the wifi unit into your dsl modem, via the WAN port, and configure the pppoe /on the wifi unit/...huh? What about the modem? Shouldn’t it handle pppoe and dish out IP addresses? It’s the gateway afterall. No wonder it was confusing.
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# re: A solution to my DI-524 and DSL-302g issues
Hmm, I think that’s the same router I bought a few months back- except that we got the one with the print server. That doesn’t work with the printer we wanted to network.
Not the router’s fault- the printer isn’t networkable apparently.
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# re: A solution to my DI-524 and DSL-302g issues
You’ll find the PPPoE setting is for modems that normally require a login via the PC via customer broken software distributed by the ISP, similar to the Bigpond setting on routers that are connecting to Cable Modems.
I’m surprised you got the DHCP to work for you, optus-supplied DSL-302g modems normally are setup using some sort of half-baked special dhcp system that thoroughly borks routers plugging into them.
Glad it’s working though.
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# re: A solution to my DI-524 and DSL-302g issues
The configuration screens on the modem are certainly not the D-Link supplied ones, they are a nerfed version that Optus has flashed onto the modem so as not to confuse people like me.
I do know that the IP address I get from DHCP is now 192.168.0.x, supplied form the router, rather than the 10.1.1.x IP I used to get from the modem.
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