Endless Paradigm

My dad has decided now that if I want wireless I can just buy a router and be happy. So, 5 minutes later, eBay, bought a D-Link DI-524 for £15. Unfortunately I didn't read thought the description and I have since found, 3 days after ordering that there is no built in modem. I have to use a seperate one.

So, onto eBay again and I find a plethora of old BT Voyager modems. Now, of course they're locked to the BT ISP so I can't use them with my ISP (Pipex). But I've heard that theyre very easy to unlock to any ISP. Has anyone tried this? If so how easy and effective was it?

Quote:Bob the Dunce...

can you not use your old router/modem and connect to the new one through ethernet?

No the old one is USB... chocolatety little Thomson SpeedTouch 330...

Just as a temporary solution I'm using my dad's computer (The one the speedtouch is plugged into) with an Internet Connection Share to use the interwebs...

Doesn't the thomson have a ethernet ports on the back, because my modem from virgin media has a usb port a ethernet port

Nope...

Oh...eww :P . I will try and find you some videos on unlocking that modem you bought. What version is it?

PSPkiller Wrote:Nope...

Haha I used to have that chocolatee thing. Kept cutting out on me :/ now I'm on BT and it's much better.

I've got 2. I just swap them when the one that's being used breaks. I'm doing this once a week or so...

EDIT: A development in the story... While I'm waiting for a modem I decided to have a fiddle around with the router itself. I set up all the security including MAC address filtering (Just to dissuade the casual script kiddies). I set it up as a whitelist from my laptop with the first entry being my PSP (because it was the first thing to hand). Anyway, I then spent about an hour trying to work out why the config page had stopped working and why the router stopped responding to Ping requests.  I'm searching around the internet and was almost going to ask here when it clicked.

Because my PSP was the only item on the list it was the only thing allowed to access the network... So, some awkward typing later (Typing in a MAC address on the PSP's on screen keyboard takes ages) I'm back in business!

The dunce strikes back!

OK, I just eBayed a pre-unlocked BT Voyager 210. Should be here Saturday.

My first won auction. Everything else I've bought from eBay was Buy-It-Now. It feels good.

There you go. My sad life goes back to normal once again...