2wire 1800hg

Like an idiot I just bought a BT1800HG adsl wireless router from ebay without doing enough research.

It seemed a good price and I thought I was doing a mate a favour.

Seems it is designed to work only with BT Broadband straight out of the box.

However it is basically a 2wire 1800HG so I assume either flashing the firmware or using different drivers will get it to work.

Anybody here come across this before

Thanks

(I will be trying to set this up over the next few nights - If i get it sorted I will report back)

"spanna" wrote in message
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Like an idiot I just bought a BT1800HG adsl wireless router from ebay
without doing enough research.

It seemed a good price and I thought I was doing a mate a favour.

Seems it is designed to work only with BT Broadband straight out of the
box.

However it is basically a 2wire 1800HG so I assume either flashing the
firmware or using different drivers will get it to work.

Anybody here come across this before

Thanks

(I will be trying to set this up over the next few nights - If i get it
sorted I will report back)


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spanna
We have one of these routers at work. Was originally for a BT adsl
provision, but have now used it on various ISPs. All we had to do is to
configure the device using the web-frontend

Thanks -Thats made me a bit more hopeful than I had been

I expected to have to do that part anyway

Hey, I also fit into the category of idiot but i fear much worse so than you spanna cos I don't know what to do with this router now. I've got Eclipse as my ISP and I really really really don't wanna switch so any chance you could talk me through what I need to do? I didn't even get sent the setup cd which i'm ****ed at but i've downloaded and installed the 2wire drivers for it so it is working to a point (ie in the form of a Ethernet icon in my system tray lol)

Any help is MUCH appreciated.

Cheers

If you open up your web browser and type "gateway.2wire.net" without the "" does it take you to the 2wire menu ?

OK for anybody who is interested - installed it tonight without a hitch.

Connected BT1800HG router with network cable supplied from network port on PC to network port 1 on the router.

Connected Router to phone socket using telephone cable supplied and existing filter (probably could have used one of the ones supplied but i didn't)

opened internet explorer went to tools-internet options-connections and changed it to Never dial connection

then in the address bar I typed in gateway.2wire.net

this brought up the 2wire menu.

On the left hand side of the screen was a button that said "setup wizard" (or something similar) I clicked on that and it asked me for an activation code, I used 522P-22P4-A222-22AT-F24N which is correct for PPOA (UK standard)

Then it asked for my user name and password which I entered and that was it the main computer could then access the internet ( I went to control panel - network connections and right clicked on my old tiscali account and made it not the default account)

The laptop I wanted to connect had a no name USB wireless adapter. I installed the drivers off the CD. plugged in the USB adaptor. Started the config software that had been installed found the option to set WEP security and input the required code - This is found on the bottom of the router. The number above the the bar code is the serial number and the number below the bar code is the WEP code. (There were 2 options for inputting the WEP code Hexadecimal and Ascii -- I used Hexadecimal)

Network was automatically recognised.


Its as simple as that.

Hope all that rambling made sense

Yo m8 that was superb, thx .

Wonder if i can pick ur brains a little bit more however, I have 2 pcs both on Xp sp2; one connects thru ethernet and the other through a wireless card. They are connected and working (sort of).

The problem is that the connection literally dies when one computer is downloading. The speed is poor and the other computer has pretty much no net usage/bandwidth. Do you know how i can setup the 1800hg as an internet gateway. Tis ****ing me off big style.

sorry don't know how to share bandwidth between the various pc's

On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 17:13:46 +0100, spanna
wrote:

sorry don't know how to share bandwidth between the various pc's

they fight it out between them.

Phil
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Tiscali - dialup speeds at Broadband prices, see
http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/postlist...&Board=tiscali

AOL - the unlimited ISP of choice for heavy downloaders.

melismobile was having trouble connecting to onetel on another forum using this router - heres how he finally cracked it


"Success at last For anyone else stuggling more information to add to Spanna's (if you can post onto other sites spanna that would be cool)

I'm using Onetel to connect, these are the settings you need
5225-2374-WG62-22AS-BJ7P for the key code this is a manual set up key code

Go to Advanced set up
vpi 0
vci 38 (was 35 on mine)
pppoa choose that




I got these codes from Onetel tech support, I needed to specifically ask for them

Then there is a drop doen meni near that area, I default one didn't work for me but I think I used the top one (sorry can't find it again now)

Not set up my wireless yet but that should be easy enough I hope !"