Comments on: Belgacom BBox 2

By: hypno

hypno — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:26:20 +0000

UPDATE : worked like a charm, I just had to plug it in, put in the SSID and plug in my marantz.

By: hypno

hypno — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:00:08 +0000

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…

By: Patrick Vande Walle

Patrick Vande Walle — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 12:38:54 +0000

@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.

By: hypno

hypno — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:56:53 +0000

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

By: Patrick Vande Walle

Patrick Vande Walle — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:22:01 +0000

@Jan See my post here

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 13:17:52 +0000

@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

By: Patrick Vande Walle

Patrick Vande Walle — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:37:19 +0000

@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.

By: Patrick Vande Walle

Patrick Vande Walle — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:36:13 +0000

@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.

By: kris

kris — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:29:03 +0000

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 )

By: Mati

Mati — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:11:15 +0000

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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