talktalk .. hg520s problem

Hi,

Rather sillily I volunteered to get a friend's taltalk connection setup.
She has bought a talktalk wireless wap/router (Huawei HG520s).

I _think_ I've got wireless and ADSL all setup ok.
The ADSL trains and syncs quickly at a tad over 3M when the router is
powered up. The wireless is setup, for the moment, as "open" with MAC
filtering.

I can browse, but the web performance is "lumpy" and generally slow. Any
large page stalls. Gmail is non-functional, even though google search is
fine.

The Laptop works flawlessly (or as flawlessly as Windows XP ever does :-)
on my wireless network, and demon adsl connection.

Any advice hints at what to look at next.

cheers
Jim

Check the MTU setting on the router, possibly lower to 1492 or even 1400

tony h <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Check the MTU setting on the router, possibly lower to 1492 or even 1400

I'll do that. As I posted I started wondering about MTU (grey cells fading
fast). Is this a common problem? Nothing came up when I googled, so I'm
wondering - why me alone?

Jim Jackson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Rather sillily I volunteered to get a friend's taltalk connection setup.
> She has bought a talktalk wireless wap/router (Huawei HG520s).
>
> I _think_ I've got wireless and ADSL all setup ok.
> The ADSL trains and syncs quickly at a tad over 3M when the router is
> powered up. The wireless is setup, for the moment, as "open" with MAC
> filtering.
>
> I can browse, but the web performance is "lumpy" and generally slow. Any
> large page stalls. Gmail is non-functional, even though google search is
> fine.
>
> The Laptop works flawlessly (or as flawlessly as Windows XP ever does :-)
> on my wireless network, and demon adsl connection.
>
> Any advice hints at what to look at next.

Your ISP's reputation.

Graham

"Jim Jackson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:fgadev$764$1$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> I can browse, but the web performance is "lumpy" and generally slow. Any
> large page stalls. Gmail is non-functional, even though google search is
> fine.
>
> The Laptop works flawlessly (or as flawlessly as Windows XP ever does :-)
> on my wireless network, and demon adsl connection.
>
> Any advice hints at what to look at next.
>
> cheers
> Jim
>

Hi Jim,

I can help you as i`ve had similar issues with my father in laws router..

Here`s some bits you need to do:-

(1). Change the MTU Value to 1400
(2). Change the MSS Value to 1432
(3). Chnage the DNS, I use http://www.opendns.com/
DNS 1:- 208.67.220.220
DNS 2:- 208.67.222.222

Then you will find all is well, I found faults with my father in laws with
MSN etc not connecting but the above it works sweet..

Full of Sugar <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I can help you as i`ve had similar issues with my father in laws router..

> Here`s some bits you need to do:-

> (1). Change the MTU Value to 1400
> (2). Change the MSS Value to 1432

I'm sure you've got those the wrong way round - MSS is usually less that
MTU.... just googled

At this site

http://forums.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/f...?TID=6892&PN=2

there is talk of the MTU being mislabelled, but no details! Maybe they got
MTU and MSS swapped? Hence your values maybe correct, given this
mislabelling.

I was round at my friends house this eve. and got some progress with MSS
set to 1392 and MTU to 1432 - figures from a talktalk tech on a
forum I found via google (but have lost the url for:-()

Managed to get into gmail (she has a gmail account), but some other sites
still had problems. Gave up till tomorrow, I'll try your suggestion,
thanks.

> (3). Chnage the DNS, I use http://www.opendns.com/
> DNS 1:- 208.67.220.220
> DNS 2:- 208.67.222.222

> Then you will find all is well, I found faults with my father in laws with
> MSN etc not connecting but the above it works sweet..

doing some more serious googling I've found quite a lot of people having
similar problems. It seems the hg520s often cause problems. I may just
have to get her a real wireless router, if these further MTU suggestions
fail.

thanks
Jim

Eeyore <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> > Rather sillily I volunteered to get a friend's taltalk connection setup.
> > She has bought a talktalk wireless wap/router (Huawei HG520s).
> >
......
> > Any advice hints at what to look at next.

> Your ISP's reputation.

:-) I assume one means "one's ISP's reputation". I personally wouldn't
touch talktalk with 30foot bargepole. But their cheapness seduces
people,and with mugs like me trying to sort it, talktalk must be laughing
all the way to the bank.

In uk.telecom.broadband, on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:19:27, Jim Jackson
wrote:

>Rather sillily I volunteered to get a friend's taltalk connection setup.

AARGH!!!

Never mind, once you've taken on a task like that - install Treewalk
http://treewalkdns.com/ and the DNS issues (for that is probably all it
is) will be resolved.

--
Jim Crowther.

West London MAG: Popes Grotto, Twickenham, every Tuesday from 21:00 onwards.

"Jim Jackson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:fgb00g$t5f$1$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Full of Sugar <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> > I can help you as i`ve had similar issues with my father in laws router..
>
> > Here`s some bits you need to do:-
>
> > (1). Change the MTU Value to 1400
> > (2). Change the MSS Value to 1432
>
> I'm sure you've got those the wrong way round - MSS is usually less that
> MTU.... just googled
>
> At this site
>
> http://forums.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/f...?TID=6892&PN=2
>
> there is talk of the MTU being mislabelled, but no details! Maybe they got
> MTU and MSS swapped? Hence your values maybe correct, given this
> mislabelling.

You can check the actual MSS requested using the "tweak test" here
http://www.dslreports.com/tweak

Jim Crowther wrote:
> In uk.telecom.broadband, on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:19:27, Jim Jackson
> wrote:
>
>> Rather sillily I volunteered to get a friend's taltalk connection
>> setup.
>
> AARGH!!!
>
> Never mind, once you've taken on a task like that - install Treewalk
> http://treewalkdns.com/ and the DNS issues (for that is probably
> all it is) will be resolved.

Ok now you've tweaked my curiosity just what does Treewalk claim to
do, been to the site & can only find fluff & very little substance.