
Originally Posted by
HydraHeaded
I just saw a thing: the telephone line comes from outside, goes to ADSL splitter; at this point, two wires are coming out, one is going to the modem, and the other is going back, and then downstairs, and that is the telephone line. Is this the way it is supposed to be? This is how the cable guy fitted it, and it has been working like this all this time...
No phones are connected before the splitter.
Alright, the telephone line that goes downstairs, is then split into two; where the wire ends, two other wires connect to it, and one is the BSNL dabba, and the other is the cordless. If something happens to the main wire coming from upstairs, both phones go dead, but if something happens to one of the individual wires of the phones, then only one phone goes dead. The modem is not on this line at all; this line is coming from the splitter, and another line is going from the splitter to the modem. Its like this:
Main telephone line > Splitter > Modem
> Telephone > (goes downstairs)
> BSNL dabba
> Cordless
So far, it seems as if the modem has been stable, but I'll know for sure only tomorrow in the morning.
Apart from the line problem, are there are any settings that are supposed to be entered in the modem to prevent such problems? And are there any settings to make the modem work faster or better? There are so many things in the modem to configure; I have let it all run on default; the only thing that I change every time I reset the modem is: make it PPPoE, type in username and password, click on always on, and that is it. I don't remember messing with any other settings; I changed the IP and DNS settings once, changed them to OpenDNS, but I had done port-forwarding for Utorrent, and then Utorrent said that the line was not clear (as you probably know, there's a yellow / green icon at the bottom of Utorrent which shows if the connection is correctly configured or not), earlier it said that the line was ok, but after switching to OpenDNS, it said that the line was not ok, so I reverted back to the old (BSNL) DNS servers, which is what I am using at present.
In 192.168.1.1; Home > DHCP > the DHCP server is disabled; the starting IP address is 192.168.1.2, and the Ending one is 192.168.1.33, and lease time is one week.
The two DNS servers are: 218.248.240.208 and 218.248.240.135 (optional).
NAT is enabled; UPNP is disabled; VPN Pass-Through is enabled for both PPTP and IPSec.
Static Route > Destination IP address is blank (nothing entered); Subnet Mask is 255.255.255.0 (/24); Gateway again is blank; and below it, the values of the picture show 0.0.0.0 for IP address, 0.0.0.0 for Subnet Mask, 59.95.224.1 for Default Gateway, and Edit/Delete is Default Route.
If you need to know the other settings, tell me.
Thanx.