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Eircom BROKE my broadband! Airport Express Help??

  • 07-02-2008 02:01PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2


    I am on a 10mb package from magnet which is good, althought they won't let you use third party routers! And for 2 weeks now my speeds have been 1000kb/s or slower when they use to be 10000kb/s or higher!!!

    I contacted magnet who were helpfull and they sent someone out the next day, who just told me after doing tests! That the problem is the line outside and I remember Eircom working on that line so basically they messed it up, then I had to get back onto magnet and tell them, they contacted Eircom and reported the fault now I am waiting for Eircom to come and check the line!! And I am being told I may need to pay for this????:mad:

    Any ideas?

    Also Magnet just told me that if i use their router as a bridge I can connect another adsl2+ router to the ethernet port on the magnet router and into the wan port on my new router (apple airport extreme) done all this and got a green light from the airport express but when I went to the internet I got "internet explorer cannot display the webpage" i do remember when setting up the airport express it asked me how my isp gets it's IP address I chose automatically, when now thinking about it I have a static ip is this the problem? do i need to reconfigure?

    Thanks in advance


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 399 ✭✭Username!


    Firstly, your DSL Router doesn't need to be in bridge mode. If you setup the Airport to automatically detect settings as you did (and have a different IP range that your current DSL modem), it will work fine.

    Change your DSL modem mode back to Routing. Power them both off and turn on DSL > 30 seconds > then turn on the Airport.


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