New high-speed internet giving networkmanager fits
by FTIO from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6NH4D)
Hi gang,
I *finally* got high speed internet! Fiber optic (TEC is the name of the company here in the Southern USA).
Satellite was what I was on and I despised it, but for too long it was all I could get out here in the woods where I live...unless I wanted dial-up - literally.
So, yesterday the crew shows up to install it and when they're getting ready to start getting the equipment out of the boxes for inside my computer room, I ask them if it will be a modem or a router that I will be going through to get to the server. Unfortunately, it's a router.
I naturally wanted to use my own router that I've replaced the stock OS on with DD-WRT, but I tried that with the satellite company equipment too (also a router) and it doesn't work...not really. The way it's set up now with the fiber optic is, The cable comes into the house (fiber) and plugs into a small box called an ADTRAN Micro ONT. This then has a cat6 cable going from it to their modem/router in the 'internet' port (another part that came in the box, it's large-ish, like a router).
Here's where things get weird. They plugged *my* router into their router with another cat6 cable into one of the four other ports of their router, but the cat6 cable from my computer also has to go into one of the other three open ports of their router...*not MY router*.
The way I see it is...My computer goes through their router, to my router, back to their router, then to their ONT thing to the internet.
Unfortunately the way this works, I cannot get into my router to adjust things like I used to be able to do when I had cable for a short time living in another place. With the cable, I plugged my system into my router, then from it it went to the cable modem and outward to the internet. I was able to get into my router this way and do whatever I wanted in it. The way it's set up now, I don't have the privacy I used to have with the cable setup because I have to go straight to *their* router from my computer, which means TEC gets to have all the info that's coming and going from me 24/7.
Here's another thing about all this...if I plug my computer straight into the micro ONT thing, I can't do anything at all...networmanager doesn't see the device or internet, but if I try to get networkmanager to use their router as high-speed fiber optic it starts to have a serious problem of connecting then disconnecting then trying to connect again over and over and over infinitum until I click disconnect. The only option I have for use is through the wi-fi of their router - which is fast, I admit, compared to what I'm used to - but it's 'wi-fi-, not the fiber optic speed I was expecting. I also have to restart my system if I've tried to change what I connect to in networkmanager or if I've tried to change cables around to be able to use the high-speed wi-fi again.
Has anyone else run into this? I sure hope I made sense. This has me confused too and I wish that these companies would stop doing this to us and just use plain and simple modems, or at least give us the option of a modem or their router.
I *finally* got high speed internet! Fiber optic (TEC is the name of the company here in the Southern USA).
Satellite was what I was on and I despised it, but for too long it was all I could get out here in the woods where I live...unless I wanted dial-up - literally.
So, yesterday the crew shows up to install it and when they're getting ready to start getting the equipment out of the boxes for inside my computer room, I ask them if it will be a modem or a router that I will be going through to get to the server. Unfortunately, it's a router.
I naturally wanted to use my own router that I've replaced the stock OS on with DD-WRT, but I tried that with the satellite company equipment too (also a router) and it doesn't work...not really. The way it's set up now with the fiber optic is, The cable comes into the house (fiber) and plugs into a small box called an ADTRAN Micro ONT. This then has a cat6 cable going from it to their modem/router in the 'internet' port (another part that came in the box, it's large-ish, like a router).
Here's where things get weird. They plugged *my* router into their router with another cat6 cable into one of the four other ports of their router, but the cat6 cable from my computer also has to go into one of the other three open ports of their router...*not MY router*.
The way I see it is...My computer goes through their router, to my router, back to their router, then to their ONT thing to the internet.
Unfortunately the way this works, I cannot get into my router to adjust things like I used to be able to do when I had cable for a short time living in another place. With the cable, I plugged my system into my router, then from it it went to the cable modem and outward to the internet. I was able to get into my router this way and do whatever I wanted in it. The way it's set up now, I don't have the privacy I used to have with the cable setup because I have to go straight to *their* router from my computer, which means TEC gets to have all the info that's coming and going from me 24/7.
Here's another thing about all this...if I plug my computer straight into the micro ONT thing, I can't do anything at all...networmanager doesn't see the device or internet, but if I try to get networkmanager to use their router as high-speed fiber optic it starts to have a serious problem of connecting then disconnecting then trying to connect again over and over and over infinitum until I click disconnect. The only option I have for use is through the wi-fi of their router - which is fast, I admit, compared to what I'm used to - but it's 'wi-fi-, not the fiber optic speed I was expecting. I also have to restart my system if I've tried to change what I connect to in networkmanager or if I've tried to change cables around to be able to use the high-speed wi-fi again.
Has anyone else run into this? I sure hope I made sense. This has me confused too and I wish that these companies would stop doing this to us and just use plain and simple modems, or at least give us the option of a modem or their router.