NTL Modems

I have set a number of Broadband connections for home users, most
often using the Draytek 2600 router with the usual eithernet to the PC
so its no surprise to be asked to do one more. However this time the
Broadband supplier is NTL.

Can anyone please tell me the fundemental difference with Broadband
router/modem set up between a cable service from NTL and the more
usual wires only service using a BT socket.

The modem[?] is on site and its a USB connection to the PC. The
operating system there is Xp Home.

Basically the end user can not it get to work and while I can probably
deduce from first principles what the issues might be, a little
priming from this newsgroup will go a long way.

Many thanks.
DAVID BRADLEY

David Bradley <(E-Mail Removed)7> wrote in
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> I have set a number of Broadband connections for home users,
> most often using the Draytek 2600 router with the usual
> eithernet to the PC so its no surprise to be asked to do one
> more. However this time the Broadband supplier is NTL.
>
> Can anyone please tell me the fundemental difference with
> Broadband router/modem set up between a cable service from NTL
> and the more usual wires only service using a BT socket.
>
> The modem[?] is on site and its a USB connection to the PC. The
> operating system there is Xp Home.
>
> Basically the end user can not it get to work and while I can
> probably deduce from first principles what the issues might be,
> a little priming from this newsgroup will go a long way.
>
> Many thanks.
> DAVID BRADLEY
>
>
The major difference is that you go through a once-off registration
process, rather than a username/password pseudo-dial-up
authentication on each connection a la ADSL. Once it is registered,
the PC is authenticated thereafter via its MAC address.

In my experience you are better off not using the 'wizard' stuff on
NTL-supplied CD, just use the CD to install the modem driver and do
the rest manually - there's not much to it.

Having loaded the modem driver, you then need this ritual:
1) Power down both the modem and PC, and wait 20 seconds.
2) Power up the modem and wait for it to 'settle' ~ 30 seconds or
so, or a couple of minutes if its a STB.
3) Power up the PC.
4) Open IE and browse any web page. You should automatically end up
at the NTL auto-registration site at
https://autoreg.autoregister.net/ - if not, try browsing there
explicitly.
5) Follow the web page destructions (you'll need the user's
registration details from the NTL welcome letter) and you should be
there.

Suggest you look here for chapter and verse:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d...ips/index.html


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"BRG" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>
>> The modem[?] is on site and its a USB connection to the PC. The
>> operating system there is Xp Home.



Use the ethernet port instead and do exactly as the next poster said except
the driver shouldn't be required for XP


>>
> The major difference is that you go through a once-off registration
> process, rather than a username/password pseudo-dial-up
> authentication on each connection a la ADSL. Once it is registered,
> the PC is authenticated thereafter via its MAC address.
>
> In my experience you are better off not using the 'wizard' stuff on
> NTL-supplied CD, just use the CD to install the modem driver and do
> the rest manually - there's not much to it.
>
> Having loaded the modem driver, you then need this ritual:
> 1) Power down both the modem and PC, and wait 20 seconds.
> 2) Power up the modem and wait for it to 'settle' ~ 30 seconds or
> so, or a couple of minutes if its a STB.
> 3) Power up the PC.
> 4) Open IE and browse any web page. You should automatically end up
> at the NTL auto-registration site at
> https://autoreg.autoregister.net/ - if not, try browsing there
> explicitly.
> 5) Follow the web page destructions (you'll need the user's
> registration details from the NTL welcome letter) and you should be
> there.
>
> Suggest you look here for chapter and verse:
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d...ips/index.html

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