I don’t want that right now ( my Raspberry Pi is doing that job for me) so I started to investigate switching that feature off. Then, reading around I found that the router also has a DHCP server enabled by default. That seems a bit of a kludge and there should be another way to do this, but I couldn’t find it in the GUI (at least not with software release 10.2.2.B).

I then uploaded the new configuration and, hey presto, the browser refreshed giving me back the config for my wireless access point on 192.168.1.254 and the router was responding on 192.168.1.1. This gave me a file called user.ini, which I then searched for all instances of 254 and looked like they were part of an IP address (ignoring one which was part of a long string of numbers) and replaced 254 with 1. So, I downloaded the router configuration (Technicolor Gateway -> Configuration -> Save or Restore Configuration). That’s the IP address of my wireless access point, and all of my devices are expecting a gateway address of 192.168.1.1. The first thing I found was that the default configuration sets the router’s IP address to 192.168.1.254. For now though I just want to swap the old router out for the new one. I was told that I might get slightly faster speeds but there’s no evidence of that based on the tests I’ve run so far (that may change in a couple of days when we roll into a new billing month and onto the new service).

The new router is a Technicolor TG582n and I finally got around to setting it up tonight. Indeed, the connection actually seems to have become more responsive lately (my theory is that the contention rate has dropped in line with people switching to fibre)! I did have cause to call Plusnet for support last week though, and they agreed to ship me a new router if I signed up to one of their current packages (which, incidentally saved me money too as we were still on a very old tariff). Those were the days – half a meg download speeds seemed so fast back then! Whilst fibre has (just about) reached my neck of the woods, my ADSL 2 connection is working well, most of the time, and I get about 6Mbps down and 0.7Mbps up these days.

Just make sure you read all the way to the end and save yourself some time!įor the last 11 years, my ADSL connection has been running with an elderly Solwise SAR110 ADSL modem/router, provided by Plusnet when we first connected to 512Mbps ADSL. This post is probably not much interest to many people but it might help some if, like me, you’re trying to re-configure a Technicolor TG582n ADSL router from Plusnet.

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