2700 - cracked it at last

[stevenrw]

Regulars may recall I was getting some grief from my new 2700 with the wireless output power a while back.
It was so poor that I decided to put it back in the box and revert to my DG834.
However, I climbed back into my pram and decided to give it another shot by tweaking the firmware which had been crippled to 1.
I'm happy to report success. Wireless strength is up to 4 bars on the old strengthometer, and it seems to have done something to my wired connection also.

DSL Line (Wire Pair): Line 1 (inner pair)
Protocol: G.DMT Annex A
Downstream Rate: 4544 kbps 
Upstream Rate: 448 kbps 
Channel: Interleaved
Current Noise Margin: 9.0 dB (Downstream), 17.0 dB (Upstream)
Current Attenuation: 39.2 dB (Downstream), 21.5 dB (Upstream)
Current Output Power: 19.4 dBm (Downstream), 12.1 dBm (Upstream)

I seem to recall somebody remarking that a download speed of 4544 was significant - what does that mean in practical terms? Other that it being faster than I had before of course.

Anyway, thanks for everybody's continued support. I'll keep you posted.

[Rik]

Hi Steven

4544 just takes you into a 4M profile.

[Lance]

Which is likely to be about 500k faster than before.

[Sebby]

Nice one, Steven.

[stevenrw]

well, that didn't last long.
When wifey tried to reconnect this morning she could not. I don't seem to be able to set up the network with the right authentication. It is currently set up and working on a WPA-personal security basis on her Vista machine. The authentication is supposed to be WPA-PSK, with TKIP network authentication, which is what's showing on this lappy that's on XP pro, borrowed from work.
Any ideas? Is the network secure to the outside world with these settings? I don't understand how this lappy allows WPA-PSK and the vista one does not.

[Sebby]

So you can connect from an XP machine but not a Vista machine?

[Simon]

Have you tried setting up the connection again from scratch on the Vista machine?  I'm pretty sure mine works on the security settings you mentioned.  I'm not on it av the moment, but I have a feeling it's in the Properties of the network connection.

[stevenrw]

I can connect to the web on the vista machine. It tells me its a security enabled network when I connect but if I then go into the Network and sharing centre it tells me its a public network.
So I'm confused as to whether its secure or not!

[Sebby]

It's secure. The public vs private thing on Vista is something you can set - I believe it controls file sharing, i.e. if you say it's a public network, file sharing is disabled, and vice versa. You want to set it to private.

[Simon]

If no one beats me to it, I'll check mine out in a bit, Steven, and come back to you, hopefully within an hour or so. 

[Simon]

Ah, Seb beat me to it.