confused with broadband connection

[_deano]

Here's one that i'm throwing to the PH crowd.
PC will connect to AOL broadband with a USB modem. Connect at 2mbps and is fine, but try to use a router (Netgear DG834G) and the routers modem can't connect to the phone line. I've tried to different Netgear routers and neather will connect, even though the green DSL light on the front of the router is lit.

can anyone think as to why the routers won't connect, but the USB does?

thanks
dj

[malman]

I think AOL requires PPOE not PPOA which is generally a default on most DSL routers. Never connected a router to AOL myself so could be wrong.

You may need to reduce the MTU from 1500 down to 1450 too if the connection seems flakey at the data layer not the connection layer.

[LordLanky]

I had a DG834G router the other day with the same problem.
It had Firmware version 2.01.01 still on it, upgraded to latest version 3 (via the USB modem of course!), swapped cables over and it connected immediately.

Link to Netgear DG834G Page

[Fidgits]

yeah, you'll need to check your configuration options for the connections etc when using the Netgear.

[_deano]

routers were runing version 3 of the firmware, so will up them to version 4 to see of that helps and will also try PPPoE instead of PPPoA. I think that the MTU was already set to 1450, but will check again.

fingers crossed that this will solve the issue.

dj