| Carl Bullard on 18 Jan 2011 06:12:19 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Do you feel like you're a Linux dude(tte) in a 'Doze/Mac world? |
I'm not sure your issue is simply Linux related. I have the ActionTec at home and the wireless is horrible. I've tried everything under the sun and nothing seems to work. My wireless drops randomly on my XP laptop. It's to the point go with a Linksys using DD-WRT or Tomato just for my wireless. Carl On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Lee Marzke <lee@marzke.net> wrote: > I've used numerous WiFi shops over the last 3/4 years with Ubuntu. > Generally there > are few issues. I"ve even had corporate locations where I stayed connected > all > day on a VPN, and the local users couldn't stay connected for more then > minutes > due to interference I suspect. > > I had one particular hotspot, where I could get an IP, DNS and default > route > from DHCP. However I could not get DNS resolving to work, and pinging > IP's directly without DNS, didn't work though the router. This location > had a Verizon ActionTec router , presumably on FIOS. > > Since then I've run into the same problem at other locations. > > I then installed Verizon Business FIOS at home, I found the exact same > problem with ActionTec again. The tech could connect his Windows toughbook > and > it worked fine, but on Ubuntu, IP,gw was fine, but no traffic. Even the > web > management page of the router failed to come up. > > Even telnet to the router ( telnet 192.168.x.1 80 ) and typing "get / > HTTP/1.1" failed > to retrieve the router's management login page. > > I bypassed the ActionTec router and connected the FIOS ONT directly to my > Endian firewall and all worked fine. > > So is there a generic software problem with Verizon's ActionTec router ? > > How can telnet to port 80 fail to work on Linux, but work correctly under > Windows unless the router protocol is terribly broken. > > Are their others that have has issue with the ActionTec/Verizon router > failing > to work ? > > Lee > > > > > On 01/16/2011 01:46 PM, Floyd Johnson wrote: >> >> Afternoon, PLUGgers. >> >> I think this cafe's WiFi apparatus was giving me bum DHCP info. It seems >> to have been set to give nameserver addresses further upstream than the >> router (they were in the 71.242.0 and 71.252.0 blocks)-the router's IP >> being in the good ol' 192.168.1 block. It took me most of an hour to >> figure out how to tell my Ubuntu boxlet the correct way to aim its DNS >> queries right at the router in here (Tuscany Cafe just off Rittenhouse >> Square). >> >> Do you guys find yourselves in similar moments, in which you're flying >> the most sophisticated laptop amongst your fellow cafe patrons, and >> having the worst time of the lot getting online? Or, on the other hand, >> do you feel like hot stuff because you are able to essentially MacGyver >> your machine to solve such problems? >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >> Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- >> http://www.phillylinux.org >> Announcements - >> http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce >> General Discussion -- >> http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > -- > "Between subtle shading and the absence of light lies the nuance of > iqlusion..." - Kryptos > > Lee Marzke, lee@marzke.net > http://marzke.net/lee/ > IT Consultant, Global App Development, Software CM, VMware, VSphere, NetApp > storage > voice: +1 484-961-0369 +1 800 393 5217 > sip://lee@4aero.com > fax: +1 484-348-2230 > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug