Posted: 9/11/2005 2:04 PM
(Edited: 1/7/2006 4:53 PM)
Post subject: ADSL modem broken
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Bisqwit
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My ADSL modem broke yesterday. Therefore, I have no internet connection at home, and thus, neither does my server. I took my harddisk and installed it on a secondary server in some other location, where it now works temporarily, but not all functions work as they should. Most notably, the Bittorrent tracker is offline. I actually tried to redirect that to the temporary server location, but for unknown reason, it doesn't seem to work. Anyway, because I have no internet connection now except at work, I will be mostly offline until it's fixed - which should be, hopefully, within a week. If you need to contact me, please do it by e-mail. I won't be much in IRC or reading the forum private messages a lot either. You can find my e-mail address at http://tasvideos.org/Bisqwit.html.
Posted: 10/13/2005 3:59 PM
Post subject: Re: ADSL modem broken
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Bisqwit
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My ADSL modem broke again! Let's see. I already deleted the explanation from the temporary holder page, so I'll just copypaste the text from a PHP program I toyed with at one point. It's a bit structurized version (though not increasing readability!) of the message that was on the page.
The new modem[1] experienced exactly the same symptoms as the previous one[3]. <p> [11] it reset itself to factory settings <em>and</em> now refuses any username and password[7] in its HTTP/FTP/TELNET frontends. <p> Resetting the modem to factory settings is not helping[8]. It still doesn't establish an ATM link[9], and it still doesn't let me login to the administration interface. It only works as a LAN router now. <p> So now I'm going to need a new ADSL modem... again :( **1 &ndash; <a href="http://www.a-link.com/RR44AP.html">Roadrunner 44AP</a>, which I received from a friend[13][2] &ndash; **2 , when the previous modem[12] was broken **3 &ndash; that is, it occasionally needs to be rebooted[4] **4 , because eventually it becomes progressively more unable to let new connections to be established **5 to get rid of the issue **6 to the modem **7 , including the factory-default "admin"+"password" login, **8 , with or without power cycle **9 at least what I can deduce from the leds[10] **10 (because I can't login, I can't see the real status) **11 I tried to upgrade its firmware[5], but before I got the chance to upload anything[6], **12 (<a href="http://www.a-link.com/RR44.htm">Roadrunner 44</a>B) **13 (Ilkka Lavas)
So now, two days later, I stopped in a computer store back on my way home from work and bought a TeleWell TW-EA501. It wasn't cheap (it had probably the highest pricetag in world for that particular item), but at least it works.