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Thomson router & Ubuntu 10.04
21-01-2012 12:42 AM
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Apologies for linking to another topic, but I've just posted the following topic http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,101798.0.html in the Linux forum. However I think that it's worth asking the question in the router forum too, to ensure I've got both bases covered.
Mods - sorry if this is bad form, please delete one or the other if appropriate and accept my apologies.
I've just swapped in the Thomson router to manage our ADSL and local network in place of our old Netgear DG845 one. Obviously our broadband provider has changed to plus net at the same time. I've set up the wireless network in the same way on the Thomson router as the Netgear one. My windows and android devices attached immediately - however my Ubuntu 10.04 laptop can detect the network but can't get past the authentication stage. I have got the password right, promise!
Any ideas? The laptop and router haven't moved; the only thing that I believe has changed is the router itself. What am I missing?
Many thanks in advance.....
Re: Thomson router & Ubuntu 10.04
21-01-2012 8:10 AM
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Quote from: Wurls80 What am I missing?
You fixed an IP address on the Ubuntu machine that is not appropriate to the new address range of the router? Netgear routers are 192.168.0.1 by default whereas Thompson are 192.168.1.254 .
Was you old Netgear router locked to your old ISP; otherwise no reason why you have to abandon it.
Re: Thomson router & Ubuntu 10.04
21-01-2012 8:20 AM
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Re: Thomson router & Ubuntu 10.04
21-01-2012 10:00 AM
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If it helped click the thumb
If it fixed it click 'This fixed my problem'
Re: Thomson router & Ubuntu 10.04
21-01-2012 11:17 AM
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Since it was working before and you actually haven't changed anything it is not going to be the distro/card, are you sure you have wpa/wpa2 enabled on the router.
Re: Thomson router & Ubuntu 10.04
21-01-2012 12:24 PM
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So I'm with you on the authentication issue, and will work through your guidance.
Ubuntu laptop didn't have a fixed IP address.
Old ISP was vodafone; we'd been having trouble with the connection and the router was the next thing to try and eliminate as a potential cause of faults. So that's why I want to get the Thomson up and running so can compare. I doubt very much it's the router, but good to confirm it.
Will let you know what works.
Re: Thomson router & Ubuntu 10.04
21-01-2012 5:27 PM
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When I turned the laptops that had been connected last night on today, they couldn't connect. Nothing I could do could fix it; turned off the router and turned it back on, and the power light flashed yellow for two hours with no other lights on. Phoned tech support to see if it really was downloading updates, they suggested turning it off and on again. Which gave me a green power light but no others. So they diagnosed an unfortunate case of a faulty router, and are sending a replacement.
In the meantime my old netgear router has been configured to work with the plusnet account and we're all up and running again. If everything remains stable we'll see how brave I'm feeling when the new thomson arrives....
Thanks to purleigh as well for his comments on my other post. Thanks everyone.....
Re: Thomson router & Ubuntu 10.04
21-01-2012 8:33 PM
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However when I switched to the Netgear DG834GT, everything appeared to work normally EXCEPT the login page for eBay.
Dropping the MTU to 1458 on the Netgear cured the problem, I also found that dropping the MTU further to 1430 gave me the absolute fastest download.
So if you unexpectedly can't login to eBay, then there is an easy solution, although I don't know why it should be different to my Linksyses.
dick:green Typo corrected at poster's request
Re: Thomson router & Ubuntu 10.04
21-01-2012 10:15 PM
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Re: Thomson router & Ubuntu 10.04
12-03-2012 11:09 PM
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Apologies for adding to an old thread, but since I've had some success I thought I'd post my solution, in case it helps someone else.
Having configured the Netgear router and been running our connection through that, we've been experiencing broadband problems again, so swapped in the Thomson router tonight to see if this solves the problem. Same as before, I ran into the problem with the Ubuntu laptop not being able to connect to the Wi-Fi network.
The only way I've found it to work is to set the wi-fi settings on the router as follows -
Protocol: 802.11b/g (instead of 802.11b/g/n
WPA-PSK version: WPA2 (instead of WPA + WPA2)
On the ubuntu laptop the encryption for the wireless network is set to WPA & WPA2 Personal, same as when using the Netgear router.
Haven't tried all the other devices that connect to our network yet, but for the Ubuntu machine this fixed the problem
Re: Thomson router & Ubuntu 10.04
12-03-2012 11:30 PM
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My excitement led to premature publication of success on the internet. Further testing has suggested that while the Ubuntu machine can connect to the router wirelessly, and can get onto the network fairly consistently, the internet is very flakey. Like, connected to google once.
My next thought would be to try adjusting MTUs; but will wait to see if our original broadband issues are replicated with the Thomson router, as then I can rule out router issues, go back to the Netgear, and get onto technical support.
So close....
Re: Thomson router & Ubuntu 10.04
07-02-2013 10:55 PM
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Today we moved onto the Plusnet fibre package. When looking to upgrade I compared plusnet & BT but decided to stay with plusnet on the basis of typing "plusnet fibre router" into google, and seeing that they provide a Netgear router. This was a mistake, because what actually arrived was a Technicolour router.
And guess what's happened? I've had to spend the evening reconfiguring everything due to inflexibility of the router, and I've met the same problem: despite setting up the wireless network in the same way within the new router as the old netgear one, everything would connect apart from the Ubuntu laptop.
Our Thinkpad T41 laptop, running Ubuntu 10.04, can see the network but will not authenticate with it (wirelessly) - the same problem I had before. It can see the network, but wouldn't authenticate. Every other machine (windows 7 & windows XP laptops, android devices) can connect, but not this one.
I have tried two different wireless adapters (one PCMCIA Belkin N adapter, one the standard one within the laptop) and neither worked.
In the end I changed the security settings on the router from "WPA-PSK + WPA2-PSK" to "WPA2-PSK". The Ubuntu laptop will now connect, despite changing nothing within it's set up. Everything else on the network also connects, with no changes to their settings.
Do Thomson/Technicolour implement WPA-PSK + WPA2-PSK in some slightly different way to Netgear? And how different is it to WPA2-PSK, if I didn't need to change anything on the networked devices themselves?
I shall engage in some wikipedia browsing for education later (once, you know, I've finished changing server settings on the rest of the devices because this router doesn't let me chose what IP to fix the addresses too, grrrrrrr), but if anyone else is suffering the same problem, then it looks like this solved it. Fingers firmly crossed.
Apologies if my solution just confirms that I'm a numpty 🙂
Re: Thomson router & Ubuntu 10.04
08-02-2013 10:59 AM
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Quote And how different is it to WPA2-PSK, if I didn't need to change anything on the networked devices themselves?
I'm not sure what the technical differences are but it is classed as a different authentication protocol to that of WPA-PSK
Thanks for taking the time to post though as this may come to help someone else out in the future.
Adam
Re: Thomson router & Ubuntu 10.04
08-02-2013 11:37 AM
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Using a TP-Link Archer VR600 modem-router.
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