Speedtouch 510 , can't connect to 10.0.0.138

[Dayter11]

Hi everybody ,

Network Engineers , Technicians , and others....

It's my first thread over here , and Quite sorry , cause it may be somewhat bothering!

First of all , I'd like to send you all a very big praise from Egypt ,my country.

My major boring defect and problem briefly lies in my router (or that's what I'm guessing) , which is Thomson Speedtouch 510 with the firmware version of 4.2.7 (may be the last one)...

It was pretty much un-errored for one complete month , afterwards it started troubling me , with the clinical picture of failure to connect to its web interface , or the telnet (10.0.0.138)..

It's not all the time , to be honest , but the quite annoying thing is that it may last for 2 or three complete days unable to access my 10.0.0.138 through a web page or telnet..

With this error message shown up on the cmd :

( Connecting to 10.0.0.138......Could not open connection to the host, on port 23 : Connect failed )

Keep in mind that :
1- I can ping it normally.
2- The internet works normally.

Regarding my system , It's Sp2 , which was the one I've used for the past year or so..

No single change in my system settings , and no single alteration in my firewall settings...

I realy hope you have an answer , And a solution to all of it..

Thanks a lot.

[glc]

Have you tried turning its power off for a minute, then restarting it? Have you tried turning the firewall off?

[Dayter11]

Hi Glc ,

I'm really grateful for your kind care and reply.

First of all , I've tried for sure turning the firewall off for both the sp2 and the router ( at one of the very little times I could access to its telnet gateway),
but again , there was no single change in the situation.

Considering unplugging the power cable , and replugging it after a MINUTE or so , YEs .I've also tried doing this , and this point exactly was a bit of a help!

After resarting the router , I could access its web interface (as well as telnet for sure) for the very first time I try to , but after a matter of seconds , The access is completely restricted , returning as it was...

What do really bother me , Is that I can't use no more this Azureus (Bittorrent technology client), which uses UPNP to map its ports allover its work , And it seems that those port mappings are completely blocked as it couldn't access my router also.

What actually adds to this belief , is that it works pretty normally after successful port mappings at times where the access to my router is normal.

Don't forget Monitoring of my Line stats , data rate , Signal to noise ratio , line attenuation level , power output , Network adress entries , and others....

I've lost all these controls , cause I've lost connection to my router configuration interface .Oh my God , It's BAD!!

All I've wanted to know is that:

1-Could it be my ISP blocking my access to this 10.0.0.138 for a certain aim of port forwarding restriction?

2- could it be a defective or lossy router that need to be changed ?

Sorry once more..

[glc]

I would try a different router if possible. Your ISP can't block access to that IP address because that's a local IP created within the router.

[glenpaton]

Had the same problem today with the Alcatel 510 and this is the solution:

http://www.mynetwatchman.com/kb/ADSL/alcmgmt.htm

and this

http://www.mynetwatchman.com/kb/ADSL/alcdupip.htm

cheers