FTTH anyone?

[abdulsami]

Apologies for that, I meant it in a helpful way bud! Insist on them supplying you with a modem, or a replacement if the current one sucks. Mine does, but I've lost patience so I just reboot it and voila, it works. If they don't help you with your current modem, at least insist on asking them for the parameters, then do it yourself, at least Linksys modems let you save the configuration in case you mess up, the Aztech they've provided doesn't!

I'm all for experimenting though, so good luck!

It's OK buddy. I have not taken ur words in negative.

Anyway, I don't want to buy another modem. If I ask Etisalat for the modem they will definitely charge me. And for my Linksys router, they are not ready to help. To hell with them. I am very much frustrated with Etisalat support.

Can anyone tell me which cable I have to use to connect from this Etisalat white box to my Linksys WAG54GX2 router. It has the PPPoE connection configuration options, but the it's not accepting. I used a Cat5e cable with the following wire settings on it

RJ45 on white box RJ14 on Linksys DSL port
1 -
2 -
3 1
4 2
5 3
6 4
7 -
8 -

Is my wiring correct? Can anyone help in this?

[darthoz]

Argh, I think I just went bald reading the last bit...um. Okay, this is how it goes:

1) Etisalat whitebox (it's by Huawei, so lets call it H)
2) Your router by Linksys which is your alternative to what Etisalat provides, lets call it L. Mine is Aztech, so it's A.
3) Wall socket will be called W

So at my residence, H is in the dining room, the LAN socket is connected and has a RJ45 cable routed to my room behind the wall, till the wall socket, W.

A LAN cable from W goes to my router, A, but has to be in the 4th socket (don't know why) (this socket is one of 4 LAN ports, not the WAN port).

1 LAN cable from the remaining ports 1 to 3, goes to my desktop pc. A is also my wireless router with a SSID.

There is no RJ11. The only RJ11 is between my telephone and the wallsocket, which is entirely different, although, they did change the wiring at the backend while installing the whitebox.

What really really really matters here are the parameters on the router. I'm sorry, but I forgot to check mine out and let you know. But they're the trick behind making it work. And its different from ADSL.

Now, if my A dies or stops working (which it does once a week), for diagnostics, I can create a dialup connection on my pc, and connect an RJ45 cable between it and W, bypassing the router A.

[fangpyre]

You lost me here, bro.
Are you trying to make an RJ45 <> RJ11 cable?

[darthoz]

Fangpyre, I think your Q was for the OP, not me. There is no RJ11 involved in my internet loop/LAN loop since the FTTH migration.

[fangpyre]

Fangpyre, I think your Q was for the OP, not me. There is no RJ11 involved in my internet loop/LAN loop since the FTTH migration.

Yes, I was talking to Abdulsami.
I think we posted about the same time.
He talks about RJ14 (which I think he means 11).
And he is connecting 4 cables onto an RJ45.

[darthoz]

Ah. my bad. Abdul Sami, any luck?

[abdulsami]

Thanks darthoz & fangpyre for your replies.

Let me correct my mistake, I used a RJ45 to RJ11 cable with cable settings as 3-1,4-2,5-3,6-4. RJ45 port in Etisalat modem & RJ11 in DSL port of Linksys router

Darthoz, yes Etisalat placed a Huawei modem in my room but they didn't connect it to any wall socket. Instead they connected it to my Linksys router with a straight RJ45 cable and told me to use dial-up PPPoE connection in my PC. And I can connect this cable from the modem to any of the 4 LAN ports on my router L.

I made this RJ45 to RJ11 cable after reading one of the posts in a tech forum. But it didn't work out. You can check that my router Linksys WAG54GX2 supports PPPoE connection. But I am confused from Etisalat as they said it will not work. I guess it's just a trick to make me by their Gigaset router.

[darthoz]

1) Did you ask Etisalat to provide you with the parameters? It's the keyword, insist on it. Or call again. I did, and the first one said they'll charge me AED 100 because I had reset the settings on my crap router, the second one gave me the parameters and logged a complaint, and the third one successfully sorted the issue by making me go thru a whole power cycling routine with the H box and my A router.

2) Why on earth did they connect the H straight to your L? Unless your L is in the same room, is it? My Linksys WAG200G is an ADSL modem, which supports PPPoE too, but I couldn't get it to work with the FTTH, unfortunately.

[abdulsami]

1) Did you ask Etisalat to provide you with the parameters? It's the keyword, insist on it. Or call again. I did, and the first one said they'll charge me AED 100 because I had reset the settings on my crap router, the second one gave me the parameters and logged a complaint, and the third one successfully sorted the issue by making me go thru a whole power cycling routine with the H box and my A router.

2) Why on earth did they connect the H straight to your L? Unless your L is in the same room, is it? My Linksys WAG200G is an ADSL modem, which supports PPPoE too, but I couldn't get it to work with the FTTH, unfortunately.

1) I asked once, but they simply denied and asked me to buy Gigaset router. I will try again.

2) Yes I have my router in the same room placed adjacent to the Etisalat modem.

[abdulsami]

Atlast, I got the Gigaset 504 AGU router in exchange to my Linksys router. It's working now finally.