Re: Windows XP Boot Up Hang, USB Router

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Moz wrote:
ta Paul, thanks a lot for the tiem and effort you spent looking into it, fortunately I will soon be getting a router that has 2 ethernet ports for me to use, will using ethernet definately avoid this issue?


You should not need any special driver, if connected by Ethernet. (Assuming
the Ethernet port was set up at some point in the past.) At the very least,
you should try to set it up without BT software. I don't have any of my
ISPs software on my computer (and I like it that way). The computer I am
typing on, is unaware what kind of networking setup exists outside the
computer. I plug the computer into the router, and the computer thinks
it is on a "normal" LAN. My computer uses DHCP, to automatically get
an IP address and other stuff, from the gateway in the router. You can
check your networking control panel, to see whether DHCP is selected or
not, as that automates things for you.

You will need to set up the router. Usually the manual will tell you
what address to use to reach the router the first time, and the address
should be one of the private (unroutable ones). Something like 10.x.x.x
or 192.168.x.x . You use a web browser, and point it to "http://192.168.1.1";
to set up the login name and password for BT, and set up other aspects
of networking. For example, for DHCP, you can program the router to use
private addresses starting at a certain point, like 192.168.64.22 and also
tell it how many computers maximum to allow DHCP connections (like 4).
Then, the range of addresses the computers get automatically, would be
192.168.64.22, 192.168.64.23, 192.168.64.24, 192.168.64.25.

There can actually be a lot of stuff to set up on the router, and
one thing I aim for in doing that, is a "stealth" rating. "Stealth"
means, no open ports as seen from the outside world. When the script
kiddies ping your IP address, they should not get a response. It
can take a considerable effort to get everything set up right.

Note that, if you run "services" from your home, like run an FTP
server, or a web server like Apache, you do need to "punch holes"
in the router setup. In that case, the script kiddies will bang on
those ports from now until eternity :-(

Some router products have better "setup wizards" than others. And
some have no wizard at all.

To scan your router from the outside, there is ShieldsUp.
Look for the ShieldsUp link on this page. This tool is useful
if you aren't planning on running services, and want to be
completely stealthy.

http://www.grc.com/default.htm

What that does, is grc.com will send test packets to your public
IP address. If grc.com gets any response packets from your setup,
grc.com keeps a record of that. When the scan is finished, you can
see how many ports at your public IP address, responded to being
probed. One problem with the grc.com test, is that the packets
are delivered with little delay between each one. On my router,
the router detects "SYN flood" and my router stops responding to
the packets. This makes the test results worthless, since then
you cannot tell which packets were ignored because of a good router
setup, and which packets were ignored because the router thought
there was a Denial of Service attack.

If your router supports disabling flood detection, you can turn
it off temporarily and carry out the test.

So, there'll be a few more things to learn along the way. It
took me about a week of playing with my new router, until I figured
out all the "cracks and crevices". Don't be dismayed if you don't
understand the interface of the router on the first day. It is a
learning process and takes time (and reading the docs :-) ).

On the first day, you should change the password on the router,
from the default, to make it harder to get into the thing. There
are actually some router products, that support remote login from
the WAN side, which is just nuts. So as a safety precaution,
change the password, as the instructions in the manual will tell you.

What I do, is keep a piece of note paper stuck to the router with
tape, and on that, I write the user/password for the ISP, the
IP address and password for the router and so on. Then, if I'm
having a "senior moment", all the needed information is at hand.

Some routers even have a feature in the web interface, where you
can save the router settings. That allows restoring the router
settings at a later date, if that is ever necessary. I haven't
bothered with that feature on mine.

Paul
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