Thread: nokia siemens residential router 1600 issue

i m using a nokia siemens residential wifi router 1600, given by bsnl guys... troble is that i am not able to use the wifi function at all... enabling the pppoe mode hasnt helped... my laptop nd cellphone are simply not able to detect da modem... i wish to switch to a new router coz i have already changed my router twice(both times obtained from bsnl only).. can anyone suggest a router which is compatible with bsnl broadband connection??

Ps. I am not a tech freak so plz restrain from askin technical queries... although i managed to setup da wifi connection at my place without help....

Follow exactly the settings given in this web site.
Chennai Telephones- Changing password in DataOne Pre-configured modem

wifi Channel can be 6 0R 11.
try without any security Key.

Confirm laptop works in wifi mode ( also OS used )
for further suggestions.

From that site:

"Type against WPA Pre Shared key -a key , for example say 12345678"

Oh, great... now we know how to access a whole lot of BSNL wifi routers!

for example say 12345678"

Oh, great... now we know how to access a whole lot of BSNL wifi routers!

I think, you said you are from U.K( with English as your mother tongue).
If you understood "for example 12345678 " to mean that ALL/Many BSNL Indian Broadband users will use this security key, you are showing your prejudice.

You can access my wifi network and have changed it to 12345678 for your benefit !!!!

Leave out the "Indian". My prejudice against computer users all over the world.

I'm sure you know as well as I do that the average user won't think far beyond that.

It's not prejudice, it's reality. And even I, in another thread a while back, admitted to having a modem (then) with the default password.

People do not take security seriously, and instructions like that one from BSNL are not going to encourage them. All it would have taken would have been another line or two.

Yes, many of the readers of that page will follow it literally. They would in UK too, so kindly do not imply that I am implying that race has anything to do with it.

Originally Posted by rachit

i m using a nokia siemens residential wifi router 1600, given by bsnl guys... troble is that i am not able to use the wifi function at all... enabling the pppoe mode hasnt helped... my laptop nd cellphone are simply not able to detect da modem... i wish to switch to a new router coz i have already changed my router twice(both times obtained from bsnl only).. can anyone suggest a router which is compatible with bsnl broadband connection??

Ps. I am not a tech freak so plz restrain from askin technical queries... although i managed to setup da wifi connection at my place without help....

Post a screen shot of your modem's wireless page.

i would suggest to go for a lnksys modem they are jack of all trait u know ......and use it as NAT device..

In most of the problems I have seen one has to login into NOKIA SIEMENS modem through LAN Cable using 192.168.1.1(User: admin, pass: admin)
Then go to
Wireless -> Basic->Click Save/Apply.
In such type of problems you have to do everytime when you switch on the modem.

Sorry. Deleted. wrong thread. Annexure deleted.

Perhaps this page setting , to be accessed finally?
indiabroadband.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=8305&stc=1&d=129615985 3