BT Fusion Problems

lil_elvis2000

Hello, Anyone have trouble getting internet on BT Fusion working?
I struggled. I am in a office building and am sharing the internet with the neighbours - they are using BT Fusion (Instead of BT Business Hub which is much better). I have a network printer, Buffalo Ethernet Bridge and the PC.
If I use DHCP on everything, somehow I can manage to get everything on the same IP Address!! 192.168.178.64. It did this a couple of times so I don't think it was just a one off.

Okay, so I assign static IP to the printer and the Bridge and only use DHCP on the PC. I can see the PC's in the offices but can't get to the internet. Everything looks okay on my end. I tried setting a static IP on the PC, still nothing.

Notes: I can't ping the hub it just times out. I can't get to the setup page through the browser either. Its like the hub isn't there! or its crashed. Maybe the hub just needs a reboot?


Any tips?

markchadwick

Hi there,

Never had any experience with BT Fusion - but have a little experience with networking having spent hours trying to figure out how best to configure my own!

Anyway, to your problem. I'd need a little bit more information about your network connection setup to give specifics e.g are you bridging two networks by adding another router/hub? Here are a few simple solutions I have found to networking issues.

1) If joining two networks together you will need to make sure that the first 9 digits of the IP addresses of the hubs/routers are the same and only the last three are different i.e., Router xxx.xxx.xxx.1 and 2nd Router/Hub xxx.xxx.xxx.2. This puts the hubs/routers on the same subnet so they can speak to each other. This will have to be done statically in the router setup pages.

2) If trying to connect two networks together using two routers, ensure that only the main router (the one providing the internet connection) is doing the DHCP IP address allocation. Otherwise the routers will "fight" each other and you wont get any connections. It took me ages to figure this out. If your Buffalo bridge is a glorified hub then you shouldn't have problems with them fighting each other.

3) Ensure you use the correct IP address as the default gateway if you assign the IP addresses to your hardware statically. This gateway IP address should be the IP address of the main router providing the internet access.

Hope this helps. Like I said, I'm no guru, but I have found these things work for me.

Mark

lil_elvis2000

Cheers. Yes I had issues. It seems the DHCP on the main router only seems to allocate two IPs. and only one of those works on the wi-fi to provide internet access. So I've had to assign static IPs to everything.I'll have to check all the config setting on the router...but I can't access the config settings wirelessly so will have to go next door to see what up.

lil_elvis2000

Well, things have progressed - a bit. Seems the guys next door don't know the router password and will have to phone their "IT Guy" who is never around when he is needed.Still I wonder if there is a solution using a wireless access point router to NAT to the single address which is working. The only issue is whether packets will come back or not.

markchadwick

The NAT approach sounds like a complicated solution to something that should be simple - they must have put some very restrictive settings on the router to secure it maybe . Remind me to avoid BT Fusion

You could get him to try typical default usernames/passwords that come with routers. Usually: Username = admin Password = password. If it is a Linksys router, then leave the Username blank and put the password as "admin" without the quotes. We can then see if they have been silly enough to leave the default settings - it may be worth a try.

It seems that only way to resolve this is to login to the router box as that is where you can see and change the settings and find out some IP addresses. It really shouldn't be too much of a problem. If you could post any details of the hardware involved that might help other forum users to advise also e.g., router model, buffalo model, etc.

Mark