I'm having a huge problem. I can't connect to the internet with any games or torrent programs. This includes world of warcraft, counterstrike.. and all my torrents are coming back as timed out and never connect.
I'm not a novice computer user, so this is super frustrating for me. I called verizon tech support and I got someone that could barely speak english, I could barely understand her and she did not understand my problem. Try explaining "yes I can connect to the internet, but I can't connect to any games or downloads, but yes it is indeed an issue with your piece of shit dsl router you sent me," especially to someone who doesn't want to help you to begin with and is just trying to get you off the damn phone so they can go back to tetris and coffee.
Anyways, rant aside.
Here's the problem, I can connect to the ineternet and browse the web, but not with pretty much any other applications, email and aol instant messenger are all fine. It's quite odd.
I have a westell versalink 327w. It's a POS. I also have a linksys router.
I tried using the westell versalink and basically, it saved the pppoe settings right in the modem, and the connection is always active.
I also have a verizon icon on my desktop, it also has the pppoe information.
If I do not connect with the verizon icon on my desktop, I can browse the web, but nothing else.
If i do connect with the verizon icon, I can't do anything, it's like I have no internet connection at all. It's like the router and my computer are fighting over who gets to talk to verizon.
What I've done right now, is I set up the POS Westell router as a bridge. I've made it 192.168.1.2.
My linksys router is now responsible for pppoe information and has it saved in the router, it is 192.168.1.1.
The dsl cable goes in through the westell, out of an ethernet port and into the wan connection on the linksys.
Computers are connected to the linksys.
My problem is that I have the same problem I had with the old configuration. Connecting to verizon using the icon on my desktop effectively kills my internet, but without it I can only browse the internet.
I'm really at a loss. I don't know what else I can do.
If you need more info just post here. I'm going to try a few more things. I'll be checking periodically. Thanks for the help in advance.