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The usual thing happened the other day.
It was Easter Friday and I found that my ADSL connection was down.
After a quick diagnostics, I found that the connection between my ADSL router and ISP was down.
A little background:
I was using Netcomm NB1300 Plus 4 with Airport Express, G4, Sipura 3000 and Brother printer hooked in to it. (Airport Express provides signal to PB and iMac). I recently attempted to upgrade firmware on the router with some mixed results (original did not support Voip).
Anyhow, after the firmware upgrade I was able to use voip but router would only function in bridge mode and would not accept dynamic DHCP anymore.
To cut long story short, when I discovered that my ADSL was down, I thought it is a good opportunity to reapply firmware update. As suggsted by Read Me file that is supplied withe the update, I did a factory reset, logged into the router and attempted to load the firmware file. However it would not load, couldn't even select the file and it would not respond. Switched off and turend on again and ... it died. All settings lost and for some reason it screwed settings on G4.
Arrghhh, and all shops are closed!
Anyhow, on Saturday went to mu local Officeworks and they had only ADSL modems without routing in stock and tons of wireless which I didn't want.
I settled on NetComm NB5 ADSL2 as I had Netgear FVS318 router that I bought for another project which was still sitting in its box. Got home, hooked ADSL2 to G4 and made sure that all worked with one computer.
Then I proceeded as outlined by Netgear to hook up FVS to NB5 and other gear. Rebooted, no go, no Internet at auomatic settings. It did not surprise me as I had not set up FVS router yet. Attempted to log in to it - no go. It did not respond. I can ping it, but no response when loging on from Safari or Firefox. Typical, I thought. Another dead unit.
Then I remeberd that I had a very old siwtch that I haven't used for about 4 years. Pulled out, dusted and plugged in. And all worked!
The moral of the story...
yes, ADSL2 modem will work with ADSL
Hardware will fail in most inconvenient moments
Have your ISP settings written down and know where they are
Test the hardware whilst it is istill under warranty
Cheers
Andy
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