intermittent connectivity from Belkin router to dsl modem

All -

Would appreciate advice, knowledge, or possibly solutions to my
problem.

Just moved into an Oakwood corporate appartment in Manila with DSL. I
have a desire to use a router so that my wife may also use the
connection when I'm not home. We're paying $75!!! per month for this
service, so I want to get this sorted.

Oakwood is using a Nomadix product to regulate their guests' internet
usage - I must login via a webpage approximately every four hours with
a supplied username and password. (not sure this is relevant, but
including for completeness).

When I hook my laptop up directly to the DSL modem, everything works
fine. My browser is automagically redirected to the login page, I
login, and then have complete access via http, smtp, imap, telnet, etc.
Through inactivity or a set time period, I must re-login, which also
works fine.

Through testing with the router and my other PCs, it appears that my
successful login is associated with my laptops' MAC address, and
anything coming from that MAC address is accepted. I know this because
when I switch unplug the dsl modem from my laptop and plug it into my
router, I am *eventually* redirected to a login page, and am told my
username and password is not valid. When I plug the laptop back in, my
connectivity works immediately. However, if I clone my laptops' MAC
address in the router (or log out, and log in via the router), I can
connect through the router - kind of.

My connection via the router is terribly sporadic - the router will
connect for 2 seconds, then disconnect for 10 seconds, over and over
and over and over forever. The WAN Connection lights on it turn on and
off, and I see my browser stop and start - mostly stop. What is
happening here, and how can I fix it?

This router is a Belkin wireless router, not sure if that matters. I am
using it in a strictly wired fashion, through the four RJ45 jacks in
the back. This router has worked fine for me in the past over a
one-year period.

This feels like some vaguely preventative measure by Oakwood to ensure
that guests each pay for their own connection, but I may be jumping to
conclusions. Any insight from anyone out there?

kxb wrote:
> All -
>
> Would appreciate advice, knowledge, or possibly solutions to my
> problem.
>
> Just moved into an Oakwood corporate appartment in Manila with DSL. I
> have a desire to use a router so that my wife may also use the
> connection when I'm not home. We're paying $75!!! per month for this
> service, so I want to get this sorted.
>
> Oakwood is using a Nomadix product to regulate their guests' internet
> usage - I must login via a webpage approximately every four hours with
> a supplied username and password. (not sure this is relevant, but
> including for completeness).
>
> When I hook my laptop up directly to the DSL modem, everything works
> fine. My browser is automagically redirected to the login page, I
> login, and then have complete access via http, smtp, imap, telnet,
> etc. Through inactivity or a set time period, I must re-login, which
> also works fine.
>
> Through testing with the router and my other PCs, it appears that my
> successful login is associated with my laptops' MAC address, and
> anything coming from that MAC address is accepted. I know this
> because when I switch unplug the dsl modem from my laptop and plug it
> into my router, I am *eventually* redirected to a login page, and am
> told my username and password is not valid. When I plug the laptop
> back in, my connectivity works immediately. However, if I clone my
> laptops' MAC address in the router (or log out, and log in via the
> router), I can connect through the router - kind of.
>
> My connection via the router is terribly sporadic - the router will
> connect for 2 seconds, then disconnect for 10 seconds, over and over
> and over and over forever. The WAN Connection lights on it turn on and
> off, and I see my browser stop and start - mostly stop. What is
> happening here, and how can I fix it?
>
> This router is a Belkin wireless router, not sure if that matters. I
> am using it in a strictly wired fashion, through the four RJ45 jacks
> in the back. This router has worked fine for me in the past over a
> one-year period.
>
> This feels like some vaguely preventative measure by Oakwood to ensure
> that guests each pay for their own connection, but I may be jumping to
> conclusions. Any insight from anyone out there?

The normal routine is to shut down the modem, connect the router,
unpowered, reboot the modem, and start the router with the
authentication data. Rebooting the modem is standard practice to clear
the modem's MAC table and allow another device MAC address -the router -
to be registered as the connected device. You'll access the router
settings for the username and password via http://192.168.X.Y where X
and Y are given in the Belkin manual.

Q

Thanks, Quaoar. Have done the power cycle on the modem. As you know, I
had to do that to connect at all using the router.

After doing that, I still have the intermittency problem with the
router connecting and disconnecting from the modem every few seconds.
In other words, the below continues to happen:

-->My connection via the router is terribly sporadic - the router will
connect for 2 seconds, then disconnect for 10 seconds, over and over
and over and over forever. The WAN Connection lights on it turn on and
off, and I see my browser stop and start - mostly stop. What is
happening here, and how can I fix it? <--

kxb wrote:
> Thanks, Quaoar. Have done the power cycle on the modem. As you know,
> I had to do that to connect at all using the router.
>
> After doing that, I still have the intermittency problem with the
> router connecting and disconnecting from the modem every few seconds.
> In other words, the below continues to happen:
>
> -->My connection via the router is terribly sporadic - the router will
> connect for 2 seconds, then disconnect for 10 seconds, over and over
> and over and over forever. The WAN Connection lights on it turn on and
> off, and I see my browser stop and start - mostly stop. What is
> happening here, and how can I fix it? <--

This type of thing can happen of you have set Use 802.11x Authentication
in the computer settings.

Q

Q - thanks, but not even using the wireless stuff yet, strictly wired.
nonetheless, I'll look into it just in case I'm missing something.

Set my linux box up as a router in place of the belkin. Everything now
works fine.

I'm assuming it was some odd interaction or between Belkin router and
the DSL box, or a problem that my linux box automagically overcame.
Maybe special MTU size, or something along those lines.

Cheers.
Kris

"kxb" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Set my linux box up as a router in place of the belkin. Everything now
> works fine.
>
> I'm assuming it was some odd interaction or between Belkin router and
> the DSL box, or a problem that my linux box automagically overcame.
> Maybe special MTU size, or something along those lines.
>
> Cheers.
> Kris
>

Is there a keep alive setting ???

KK