hey Roland.

now yer killin me man!

last you said you were going with wanadoo, what happened to make you go with the most evil of evils

saludos,
jer...

Having the spousal unit break down and cry on my shoulder saying she couldn't take any more of Wanadoo's "Sorry, that order was automatically cancelled a week ago" excuses made me relent and let her call Telefonica.

So yeah, 1 Mbps at 50€ a month. looovely This is what happens when I get lazy and have Juliette call Telefonica to install a new phone line in a new flat. What with her non-Spanish friendly surname and no DNI, it was asking for trouble.

I'll probably have to have Telefonica install a second line under my name, then call Wanadont/Jazhell to install the 20 Meg ADSL line, then when that's all working fine have Juliette call Telefonica and cancel the first line and the Telefonica ADSL.

Anyway, I just figured out I don't need a PC to configure the Telefonica Wireless Router. By going to 192.168.1.1 and entering the admin name and password, which was absurdly easy to guess (1234 for both), I got the complete router control panel where every little detail is configurable from WEP encryption to MAC addressing.

Now to really screw things up

- Roland

Hhhmmmmm....I am certainly going to be coming back later today when my router gets here to beg for techy help!

hey Roland, is that router the 3com one?

i ask because that ip is the one for my router as well and i have ya.com and the 3com router.

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have Telefonica install a second line under my name, then call Wanadont/Jazhell to install the 20 Meg ADSL line, then when that's all working fine have Juliette call Telefonica and cancel the first line and the Telefonica ADSL.

i did that and it worked like a charm. waited for my ya.com connex to be working well for a few weeks then cancelled the other lina and adsle with telefonica. worked like a charm

saludos,
jer...

Wendy--
I recommend doing what Roland did--that is, try to get it working without installing the software. For my new computer, it worked as it did for Roland. I just plugged it all in and turned it on. The telefonica software is really invasive and I think they use it to snoop. I'd avoid it, if you can.

Do make sure to secure your wireless network with a password.

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Do make sure to secure your wireless network with a password.

i could not use WEP nor WAP encryption since it was conflicting with my webcam program so i just turned on MAC filtering, that is another option.

saludos,
jer...

I've secured the admin page but while I complete this work I have to do for a client I'm leaving the modem open.

The modem is "Router Inalámbrico Xavi 7768r" by AMPER. No 3COM. The router's admin page is entirely in English which is nice but it's not as easy to configure as a Belkin or Linksys wireless hub.

The 198.162.1.1 address is fairly standard for most routers so I'm not surprised yours is the same.

I agree with Mariposita. The less Telefonica software you can install the better.

- Roland

Ok, following your advice, I just set it up and plugged it in and have not installed anything on my computer. I can see three networks: two secured: "linksys" and "eerr" and one unsecured "comtrend" Which one is it?
If it is comtrend, how do I secure it? If it is a different one, how do I find the network key? HELP!

ok Wendy, take a deeeep breath and calm down

not sure yours is working since the names that appear are usually the names of the routers. is your router brand "comtrend"? if not, what brand router do you have? it is unlikely that your connex is either of the "linksys" ones as that is a better brand and timofonica is not likely to give that one to ya and since they are protected, they probably belong to someone in your building or nearby.

so, the names are usually like...

- linksys.
- 3com.
- comtrend.
- etc...

... unless the owner (you) changes the name to something else. for example, my office network shows as "www.multimadrid.com" and the plaza wifi shows as "www.plazawifi.com".

type 192.168.1.1 into a browser window (after the http://) and see if it loads your router interface.

if it does, it will ask for a user name and password. since you and Roland both have timofonica, i would guess it is, as he says above "admin name and password, which was absurdly easy to guess (1234 for both)".

once in the router control panel, you can access the encryption, MAC filtering, etc...

saludos,
jer...

For my router (a zxyel) the router username was 'admin' and the password '1234'. I think this, along with the IP address is pretty much standard.

But to set up your wireless network, you don't have to access the router. You can do this through the windows control panel. On the router, you can set up a firewall (you can also do this via software like norton or mcafee or even windows) and, if you are into downloading stuff, open up ports and activate UPnP (plug and play).

If I were you, I'd confirm that everything is working by hooking your computer up to the router via ethernet first. Once it's working with ethernet, then I'd set up the wireless network in windows (go to the control panels to do this).

Yes, well, it's called reading the directions!!!! In my defense, I had spend seven hours waiting for Telefonica to show up-so I really only gave the whole installation process about five minutes of my time before running out the door-including throwing myself on your mercies and scanning the quick install pamplet.

Had I ACTUALLY read what was not only quite clearly stated, but, for my benefit, UNDERLINED, I would have noticed that it said it came from the factory disactivated-quite obvious from the lack of little green WLAN light! All I had to do was to stick something into the little Res hole to activate it-which it did immediately, and also brought up immediately Default (which was...ummm...what the pamphlet also stated would be the name of my network-also UNDERLINED). So I was a hasty idiot! No surprise there!

routers are a pain in the neck. watch out before you download new firmware from the manufacturers as it doesn't always work, as i found out to my cost (especially d-link) check various forums first. wannapoo seem to have the same service worldwide. My kids in the UK have had a wannapoo router for 4 weeks and its already given up the ghost.

Jer, did you ever go for the Jazztel 20mb deal?

If at first you don't succeed, try and try again. Then read the instructions.

As soon as I get around to poking into the settings in the control panel of 192.168.1.1 I'll post them.

In the meantime Wendy, I HIGHLY suggest you change the default Admin name and password otherwise some wiseguy will find your hub and break into the admin panel and screw with your settings.

Here's a hopefully easy step-by-step instruction to change the admin password

1. Open a browser window
2. Type 192.168.1.1 in the URL box at the top.
3. Click on System in the left side frame under Statistics.
4. Click on Users just under System.
5. Click on Create a new user... in the right side frame.
6. Type in a Username (something not easily guessed by others e.g. Schwendy20),
7. Type in a Password (random set of more than 7 letters and numbers and write it down on the sticker provided by the ADSL kit and stick it on the bottom of the router),
8. Change 'May login?' to true.
9. Don't worry about the Comment field.
10. Click on Users again.
11. Click on Edit user... to the right of the Default admin user comment.
12. Change 'May login?' to false.
13. Click on the Apply button.
14. Don't delete the 1234 user.

That's it. Hope it works out like it did with me. From now on if you need to change stuff in the admin panel you should use the password and username you just created. Others won't be able to easily break in and screw with your router.

The other alternative to the above steps is to just run the Telefonica software and let it do it for you as well as infest your computer with who knows what. But it would be far worse to leave your router wide open to attack.

- Roland

Thank you for taking me through that step by step-you KNOW I need it! I will try it out and let you know.

One more question, does that then take the place of creating the network key and all that? Because I tried to use the wireless network wizard yesterday to change the name of my default network and to set a network key, but all it did was create a new network instead of changing my default one which I was trying to do following Mariposita's instructions (I thought)

Nah. It doesn't take the place of creating the network key. That requires other fiddling.

I did forget a couple of steps at the end, however.

15. Click on Configuration in the left frame.
16. Click on Save config in the menu that appears.
17. Click the Save button.

That way the changes will be stored in Flash memory in case the power goes out.

Schwendy, don't worry about the above steps since you're using the network wizard. Not sure what you did to create two networks since I'll probably never use the wizard.

Good luck though.

- Roland