Linksys ADSL2 Modem Install/Config help required

Zero1 · Post by **Zero1** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 6:06 am

This must be a first, me asking for help on the org, I usually scout around for threads I can contribute my help to. Oh well, such is life. Though I realise this isn't exactly what you would call video hardware, it's associated with my visiting the org etc, that and I know a few guys like dero, waffle and trythil know something about networks.

Here goes.

I live in the UK, and my ISP is BT (British Telecom) and I subscribe to their 2mbps ADSL service. The supplied modem would cause the system tray to lock up on disconnect and Windows not to shut down, so I went ahead and bought the Linksys ADSL2 modem (I understand it's backwards compatible with ADSL)

The original modem is made by Globespan Virata for BT. AOL have the exact same modem but with their logo on it, the modem is the Voyager 100. When it's installed and working it connects to the internet like dial up. You have to initialise the connection and it dials 0,38 and varifies your username. I am led to believe it uses PPPoATM. When it connects I get a little tray icon that says connected at 2.2mbps, everything is good.

I can't seem to set up the Linksys to act like the Voyager, ie dial up in effect. So far I have been able to get it working, but I don't think it's configured correctly. I read in the manual that there was a config utility accessible by pointing my browser at http://192.168.1.1/ . I logged in and configged it in such a way that it appears to work.

It seems to dial up and varify automatically (during boot!) without my having to invoke it so I can fire up a browser and start surfing without waiting for the (very short) dialup, which is good, it's fast and convienient. It's connected to the internet before I even get to the desktop, I like that. It shows in the system tray as Local Area Connection 3 @ Speed: 12 Mbps. This is obviously not the speed of my net connection, and the modem itself is rated as up to 25 Mbps (I'm wondering if using USB is a bottleneck?).

The more frustrating side to this problem is that I can't listen to online radio. Windows media player doesn't see it as an active net connection and tells me that I'm not connected.

Ideally I'd like it to log in as it is doing now, without my invoking of it, but show the correct speed in the systray and correct information in the Networking section as opposed to it being listed as some form of LAN connection.

I hate networking

sysKin · Post by **sysKin** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 4:34 am

System tray will only show you the speed of the line which is connected to your computer. This is 12mbps for usb, 100mbps for ethernet etc. Just hide the system tray icon altogether, it's not useful anymore.

As for media player, I think it's still set up to react to your dialup connection. Try opening internet settings (IE->tools->internet options. I think) go to Connections, and remove all your old dialup connections from there.

Zero1 · Post by **Zero1** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 11:44 am

Hey syskin, thanks for that. I've done what you suggested before hand but no go. I'm going to give it a format and clean install and hope it works then.

On an unrelated note, hope they're treating you well at your new employment, good to see they still let you out into the real world

X264 is coming along nicely it seems, I just pray everyday that when I check the ffmpeg homepage that I see custom quant matrix decoding added to h264.c in libavcodec, and then I will be tempted to distro videos

Hehe, dunno how closely or not you used to work with the ffmpeg guys (back in the good old XviD days of course, or maybe even now with X264?) but perhaps you could "suggest" CQM support; last I heard it was being worked on, but I'm guessing they're probably waiting for pengvado to get back from his work experience (what a lucky guy!). IIRC he's not stationed at the same place as you is he?

Cheers syskin, peace

sysKin · Post by **sysKin** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:47 pm

Z3r01 wrote:Hey syskin, thanks for that. I've done what you suggested before hand but no go. I'm going to give it a format and clean install and hope it works then.

Bah evil.

On an unrelated note, hope they're treating you well at your new employment, good to see they still let you out into the real world

Lol I'm not going anywhere, of course I'm still in the real world, and especially my favorite AMV world

BTW, I'm doing some great stuff that you AMVers would definitely like to have in your editing programs

Hehe, dunno how closely or not you used to work with the ffmpeg guys (back in the good old XviD days of course, or maybe even now with X264?) but perhaps you could "suggest" CQM support; last I heard it was being worked on, but I'm guessing they're probably waiting for pengvado to get back from his work experience (what a lucky guy!).

I don't know anyone from ffmpeg, and I'm sure the only person who is both interested in that support *and* is able to code it is pengvado.

IIRC he's not stationed at the same place as you is he?

I'm working from home, from down under

Regards~

Zero1 · Post by **Zero1** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 1:31 pm

sysKin wrote:Lol I'm not going anywhere, of course I'm still in the real world, and especially my favorite AMV world

BTW, I'm doing some great stuff that you AMVers would definitely like to have in your editing programs

Sounds excellent, and I'm intrigued

I shall be keeping my ear to the ground and checking the usual place for videophiles

sysKin wrote:I don't know anyone from ffmpeg, and I'm sure the only person who is both interested in that support *and* is able to code it is pengvado.

Ah, as I thought. Well I think I'll encode my releases and bust the out as soon as the support becomes available in FFDshow once celtic_druid kindly compiles it. Watching CQM videos without a CQM capable decoder is pretty b0rked, viewable but b0rked, don't want to upset the newbs now do we? I will of course suggest Nero as a suitable decoder (It's handling those CQM's just fine) but of course people like options and alternatives.

sysKin wrote:I'm working from home, from down under

That's awesome, it's good to see you still enjoy hanging with the AMV scene. There's always that close relationship between fansubs, AMVs and XviD, I sometimes think that they help drive eachother. Of course there are American movie rippers who use XviD etc, and I'm sure that plays a big part in peoples awareness of XviD, but hey that's blatantly illegal so I disregard that

Cheers again for that

Zero1 · Post by **Zero1** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:29 pm

Well, did the dreaded format and at first I had a net connection but again media player didn't detect it. I downloaded and installed WMP10 and let it check for updates on installation, it now recognises it and plays streaming media fine.

Providing my P2P apps see the connection and are happy, I'm happy too, though one program was reporting port errors and bittorrent was very slow (though I do appreciate it depends on seeds, I don't think that was an issue, will try again).