Internet Finally Working
June 25th, 2008After a 13 day wait my internet connection is finally up. The engineer simply reconnected my plug in the switch box so it must not have been seated correctly from the start. It’s just a pity it took Dansk Bredbånd so long to send an engineer out to discover this.
We also have IP telephone now all server up through the gateway box provided by Dansk Bredbånd, it’s a Tilgin Vood 342 (pdf link) for anyone that’s interested. I noticed that without the WAN connected it acts as a DHCP server so you can connect to the admin interface in the box by going to http://192.168.2.1, I haven’t been given the username and password but searching on forums it seems that Conf/admin works. I’ll give this a try in the next few days.
It also took an extra support call to get the phone working, but fortunately that seemed to be a simple configuration error on their part as it was fixed very quickly.
As for the connection I’m actually very happy with it. I’ve tested it both in download and upload bandwidth and it easy reaches 25 Mbps in both directions so my steady stream of updates to Fedora 9 go pretty quick to say the least.
I also ordered a static IP address so I can access my server from anywhere, this is identified by the mac address of my router that I gave to Dansk Bredbånd but sometimes I just plug my laptop in without the router so though it might be useful to spoof my routers mac address. Turn out this is very easy in Linux, just do the following as root, thanks to this page.
# /sbin/ifconfig eth0 down hw ether 00:00:00:00:00:01 # /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up