which product works with no router or modem
cheri:
i have the obi mac address registered, and just tried 3 different ethernet cords to a laptop, nothing. Calling them now. Sorry i had you looking for solutions when of course they did not leave me with a working port like they said they would.
Thank you for all the help, and so sorry for wasting your time. :-) I might be back, because now i am beta and not sure how that works.
drgeoff:
Quote from: cheri on June 20, 2018, 08:21:18 am
they said it's against the terms as it would interfere with our neighbors wifi experience.
More likely they mean you cannot have a router which incorporates a Wi-Fi Access Point - commonly referred to as a "Wi-Fi router" but as almost all current home routers do have Wi-Fi the "Wi-Fi" part of the name is increasingly omitted.
If that is indeed the restriction there are some possibilities.
1. If you have a working ethernet socket, hang a router on that. If it is a Wi-Fi router, disable its Wi-Fi.
2. Use a Wi-Fi to ethernet adapter to get a working ethernet socket then proceed as above.
3. If you have or get a Wi-Fi router which can be flashed with alternative firmware such as OpenWRT, DD-WRT etc do that and configure it as the equivalent of both the adaptor and router in 2.
Note that in all 3 cases, devices wired to the router will be double-NATed but I have not found that to be a problem in most cases.
cheri:
My obi100 is working! They activated the wall port, had to wait for the apartment complex to give permission, once that happened, it was activated and now i can use my home phone again!! Thank you to all who helped and gave advice. And whoever Simon is, thank you for providing your services at such a bargain price!!
Sheffield_Steve:
Excellent news.
If you have the OBi100 plugged directly into the wall jack then you are open to abuse.
If so, I strongly suggest you put a basic router (with no Wifi) between the OBi100 and the Ethernet jack.
cheri:
What do you mean by abuse?
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