Saturday, November 26, 2011
Wanadoo/Orange and third-party routers: AVOID
Somewhere deep in their settings, Orange/Wanadoo seem to have some subtle different from a normal ADSL ISP.
Two different-model routers worked fine on my home ISP. At a friend's, I adjusted the MTU to 1492 as instructed on the Orange settings page, changed username and password and ... nothing.
Orange help isn't any help: "We don't support third-party routers". It took them 10 minutes to confirm that the DNS addresses on their spec page are still current.
What is it about their setup that needs modification from a normal-ISP setup? Who knows: they certainly don't seem bothered to tell you.
# posted by John Geddes @ 7:07 pm 
