Hello folk. We have spent five days trying to get a friends Draytek Vigor 2800G to see the ISP, and went through every setting six times over in the router setup pages before we found that the username was missing the first digit because of a faulty key entry - that will teach me to double check EVERY entry!
We got all the greens in the status pages after that and were able to get Google news and have a gawp at what was going on in the world before we decided we ought to do something about making the wireless network secure - and our troubles began again, pronto. We lost connection.
I had put it to 'WEP key only' because of something I had read in the latest firmware upgrade notes, about an issue of inoperability if the system was on mixed mode.
We tried 'this and that' to get the WEP key working, without any joy, and eventually disabled security to 'start again'. It took some time before we could get the computer to connect to the internet again - I think we turned the router and computer off and back on and then got connected via ethernet and went back into setup to change the key to shared - anyway, eventually we got to putting it onto the mixed mode option and got the router to accept our thirteen digit key and thought that was that.
Not so.
The network could be seen from a remote laptop, but neither laptop could connect even though we could now see it, which had not been so before.
I went to ipconfig and found there were no IP settings at all appearing on the private side of the router - though in the router status page the IP's for getting out are there and all pages are green. So, the router isn't able to talk to the nics - is that right?
Is this the 'inoperability' issue the firmware guide speaks of?
After that further disaster struck when I wanted to go back in via the browser and switch security off again. I found that I couldn't get IE6 up. I looked at Task Manager after several tries and saw it was there but not responding - and then we lost explorer.exe as well, so I shut down and Windows felt it had to check the disk structure before I got back in. THEN I disabled security and we got on the net OK, and that is how we have left it for now, but come away puzzled as to what might (not) be happening.
I checked the TCPIP properties to make sure everything was set to dynamic for getting IP's though I am not sure if that counts with wireless and PPPoA - it was, as I would expect.
I have learned a lot about ADSL this week, but it looks like my learning isn't over yet - can you help??


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yes, interoperability to do with mixed modes security yes? Here is what it says
