I guess they want me to buy their wireless router. I loved the play by play, absolutely priceless and anyone (with any technical computer background) who’s ever had a Romanian technical service provider dispatched to their home would laugh their asses off at your experience, because It’s so typical.

I’m going to go back and read the rest of your Blog, where are you situated in Romania, where are you from originally? I’m sure I’ll find this out but, thanks for letting me know I’m not the only one whos having internet problems in Romania… and also that I’m not the only one who own a f**** network and actually uses a wireless connection.

As far as I can tell, if you have the normal ADSL with the Speedtouch 360 modem, then you should set your wifi to be DHCP and specify your preferred DNS settings.

On the other hand, if you have the upgraded ADSL2 with the Speedtouch 546 router/modem, then DHCP will not work. Try setting your wifi router to have the fixed IP of 192.168.1.1 (or .2, .3, etc) with the gateway of .254 plus specify your preferred DNS settings.

Let me know if that information works out for ya!

I think I just had the same guys at my place here in Ploesti (im from UK)….and they had he same problem. Its taken 3 months since I signed the contract!! took connex 2 days to get satelite connection into our base.

Anyway, did you ever find out the IP settings for the router, im trying to use my wireless gateway here.

Cheers

Jack

If you can change the administrator’s username (usually admin or blank by default) to something else, that’s recommended.

Be sure the option for “remote administration” is disabled (usually is off by default, but doublecheck).

A lot of routers come pre-set to allow special access over certain ports for the gaming community. Most gamers don’t know anything about computers, so the electronics companies decided to open up these ports rather than try to explain to gamers how to do it. If your family regularly battles it out on Game X, this is probably a good thing. If your machine doesn’t see online interactive gaming action, then I’d go in an close those ports up. It’s nothing exceedingly dangerous, so don’t have a panic attack if you cannot figure out where to do that. It’s just the general rule in security that if you don’t need something turned on, then turn it off. Smart, eh?

Okay! Now onto the wireless network itself. Give your network a unique name (called the SSID in geekspeak) and find the checkbox option “Broadcast SSID” (or very similar) and turn that off. This will prevent your router from shouting to your neighbors and drive-by hackers, “Hey, man I’m over here. Come get online through me!” Basically, if it is not broadcasting the ID, then only folks you specifically tell the name to will tend to know it exists.

Set the encryption (key) to at least 128 bits (the same strength your local bank uses). The helps keep your little packets safe while they’re floating around in the open air.

Lastly, set the network password. I’d use at least letters and numbers. Be more complicated if you can remember those things. Even if an unwanted visitor knows your network exists (or otherwise discovers it), then they’ll be locked out by the password.

Wireless reception against a window screen. Hahahaha, that deserves a photograph for sure! Very innovative of you to ‘tap into an existing resource by leveraging the local grid.” I foresee consulting in your possible future…

Kyah, what I didn’t understand was if your connection is technically a satellite feed (normally very expensive yet slow) or a radio wave (which it sounded like). Bring the pain!

Alec, that always gets me laughin’ dude. There’s gotta be an animated graphic of that somewhere…