Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners 3808 and PPPoE

Still planning on doing more testing when I have time, but if I do decide to go buy a new router, which may well be my next attempt at a shortcut, any generally reliable ones out there? What routers are people specifically using with the 3808 that have been relatively trouble-free?

Sat:
Check out this thread , this one and this one.

I ended up with a Linksys WRT54GS after seeing so many recommendations here.

I have been very pleased with my D-Link DIR-655. It has been the most reliable home-grade router I've ever worked with.

That WRT54GS is another very good one.

Thanks, I'll look into this, I think I'll call Denon as well to see if they recommend anything.

BTW MAC address filtering is present but not enabled on the ATT router/modem.

Have been unable to bring up the 3808 in the device list of either router for the past day, so am unable to perform further testing of any kind at this time with regard to the avr.

SatKartr, have you looked in the 'Official 3808' thread over on AVS?

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=860539

101 pages worth of posts, but I'd bet that somewhere in there people have discussed compatible routers.

Lots of chaff on AVS, of course. But I have found that the 'Official' threads regarding some product usually do offer quite a bit of meaningful information.

Eureka! Peter you nailed it! I began to scroll the above mentioned thread, voluminous, mostly chaff at first and nothing related to routers and then my eye picked up a comment regarding make sure you plug into the ethernet port and not the denon link jack. So I rushed over to check and lo and behold not only had a missed the correct port after scanning the diagram and reaching behind the entertainment center, but I had plugged into the wrong box, I had plugged into the Sony 350, hence the incorrect MAC address! For some reason I had failed to reverse the image of the diagram properly in my mind so when I looked in the back of the rack I was looking for an ethernet port on the left rather than the right, so the Sony looked good.

Plugged the ethernet cord into the correct jack and seconds later I was listening to German internet radio (I guess that's one of the most popular for some reason) through the power line network directly into the att combo/router. What a bonehead mistake, , for days I've been tracing all of the connections and learning everything I never wanted to know about networks, but never suspected I would have made such an elementary flub at the very beginning of the chain. That's one of the problems with getting old, you make mistakes you can't even begin to imagine you would be capable of so it's not immediately obvious where you need to doublecheck. Note to self: when trouble shooting, begin with a triple check of connectivity.

Thanks everyone for all of your help and patience, I learned a lot and perhaps some of the knowledge will be useful some other rainy day.

aw crap, I didn't even think of that... Sorry, dude!

If you're going to plug into the D-Link port you'll want this cable: http://www.usa.denon.com/ProductDetails/3429.asp

Doh! Glad you figured it out. Hopefully this is one you can laugh about in a week or two.

Jason

Excellent!

Glad you found the source of your problem and were easily able to correct it. It's the little things that can drive you crazy.

It happens more often than you might think, even to us 'professional' IT people.