Belgacom BBox 2

Posted by Patrick Vande Walle on 26 March 2010 Leave a comment (12) Go to comments

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kris 15 March 2011 at 13:29(Edit)

Problem I have with the bbox is the range of the WIFI. I used to have an old philips wifi modem, and this worked perfect. Wireless network access everywhere, even in my backyard. Now with the bbox: only a range of 5m, no access in the garden or upstairs in the bedroom. Can this be extended? ( tried switching the channels, but this did not work )

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- Patrick Vande Walle 15 March 2011 at 13:36(Edit)
  
  @Kris
  The antenna is internal, so there is no way to extend the range with the BBox. You could try using a WIFI repeater. Or you could connect your BBox in bridge mode, deactivate WIFI on it and use the Philips as a plain router with WIFI, assuming the Philips allows you to do that.
  
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  - Jan 9 April 2011 at 15:17(Edit)
    
    @Patrick
    I have the same problem as kris and tried to use a Cisco Linksys WRT54GL router. I managed to add the Cisco to the Sagem modem but configuring my Sagem F@st 3464 turns out a little bit to difficult, you’re talking about bridge mode this is where I’m loosing you. Can you elaborate a little bit on this?
    Thanks,
    
    Jan
    
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    - Patrick Vande Walle 9 April 2011 at 17:22(Edit)
      
      @Jan See my post here
      
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  - hypno 25 September 2011 at 11:56(Edit)
    
    Hi Patrick, a lot of very useful information on this site.
    I am also a Belgacom customer, still using the Bbox2.
    Recently I have purchased a marantz home cinema receiver, which needs an Ethernet cable to access my local network.
    As my bbox is located in a totally different area than the receiver, I would like to use a repeater, place it next to the receiver, then use a cable.
    I was looking at the Netgear WN2000RPT.
    
    Do you know if this is going to work with the Bbox2?
    
    Thanks in advance for your help,
    hypno
    
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    - Patrick Vande Walle 25 September 2011 at 14:38(Edit)
      
      @hypno
      
      I have not tried it but, according to the specs of the Netgear box, it should work. Be aware that the BBox-2 does not have a very large or strong WIFI coverage, due to its internal antenna. The effective speed you experience might be limited.
      
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      - hypno 25 September 2011 at 22:00(Edit)
        
        Thanks a lot for the fast reply.
        I will order it today and will let you know in the coming days if I managed to make it work.
        I realize I was not very clear in my previous message – I do live in an apartment so the bbox2 is on the main hallway, while my home cinema receiver is in the living room. We are talking about 10 meters, but I would really like to avoid the cable – that’s what I need the repeater for…
        Anyway, like I said, will try it and update this thread in a couple of days…
      - hypno 6 October 2011 at 22:26(Edit)
        
        UPDATE : worked like a charm, I just had to plug it in, put in the SSID and plug in my marantz.
Mati 15 March 2011 at 11:11(Edit)

Hello,

We have a problem since we switched to VDSL, the BBox gets blocked and we have to restart it every day.
Anybody any idea how to get this problem solved?

Many tghanks.

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- Patrick Vande Walle 15 March 2011 at 13:37(Edit)
  
  @Mati
  
  The most common reason that the BBox appears “blocked” is that it does not clean outgoing connections from its routing table when the connections are closed. This leads to the table being full, and not accepting new connections. In effect, by restarting the modem, you clean the table.
  
  See this blog post on how to fix that: http://patrick.vande-walle.eu/belgacom-bbox-2-tricks/autoclean-upnp-entries/
  
  To connect to the BBox in telnet mode, type
  
  telnet 192.168.1.1
  user is “admin”
  password is “BGCVDSL2″
  (without the quotes)
  
  This is all can remember from memory. I have since replaced the BBox by anothre modem, so I cannot test anymore.
  
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