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#131014 5-Oct-2013 12:46
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I recently upgraded to VDSL, replacing my old ADSL modem (half bridge mode) and Linksys BEFSX41 router with the Telecom provided Technicolor TG589vn v2. Everything went very well except that the Linksys Media Extenders will no longer connect to my Media Centre PC. 

I tried removing the Technicolor router from the network, and put the BEFSX41 back on and the extenders all happily reconnected.

I am at the end of my network knowledge, but it appears to me that the Technicolor is preventing the connection somehow: Maybe the intrusion detection which I cannot see how to disable? 

Any ideas? I tried to put the Technicolor in bridge mode but could not get it to work with my BEFSX41, however I would prefer to resolve this (if possible) without introducing additional equipment.



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Ragnor
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  #908659 6-Oct-2013 01:42
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Well I just said it another thread but I'm gonna say it again.... these Technicolor/Thomson devices that Telecom supply are garbage they have a history of annoying issues like this, there are many of threads on geekzone ever since Telecom started using them several years ago. Everything from dns issues, nat issues with xbox live and ps3 network, dhcp issues, compatability with mac issues etc.

Most annoyingly the bugs are often fixed by the oem in later firmware yet the oem does not distribute their firmware updates directly because of the white label relationship with ISP's. The fixes never get to users.

I don't see how you can solve this without spending money I'm afraid. I've never seen Telecom distribute a firmware update for these supplied modems.

Bridging which is a good solution (get the Technicolor to be just a dumb modem and do as little as possible) but likely won't work for you because the BEFSX41 doesn't do vlan tagging.  Worse with the small size of the flash rom in that device there is no potential to flash it with open source third party firmware that does do vlan tagging. 

So either you need to replace the BEFSX41 or the Technicolor, suspect replacing the BEFSX41 is going to be cheaper.

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