HELP: MS Wireless Base Station (router) Killed my ADSL modem? WTF?

[CaptainKahuna]

I just got my brand new MS-500 wireless base station (router), and hooked it up, everything is peachy, works fine. But I decide that I want to switch my router into "Bridging mode", so it will just act as a switch/AP. Suddenly no network, and (obviously) no internet. I decided that I wanted to have it back in "router mode". Problem, I can't log into the router, it says that a user with IP address 192.168.2.7 is already logged in (that's the IP address of the machine I was on, the only one hooked up to the router). I closed all IE windows, waited 5 mins or so for the router to "forget" I was logged in, and tried to login again, same error.

So I bust out my handy paper clip, and press the reset button on the router. I successfully login with the default PW, and configure my PPPoE settings like it was before, except now it just is stuck on "Connecting...." forever. I thought this was funny, so I unplugged everything and put it back like it was pre-router (modem direct to 10baseT PCI card). I try to connect, and I got a 797 error immediatly after I enter my login and PW to connect. It says that the modem is either in use or cannot be found. So now I'm stuck with dialup.

I tried it on my laptop, with the same results. Has my new router somehow fried my modem? All the lights on the modem look as they did before this fiasco.

My modem is a Siemens Speedstream 5360, and it's NOT the model that requires the firmware update to work with a router.

 

[CaptainKahuna]

Oh yea, I tried power cycling the modem too, no luck.

 

[dmcowen674]

Do you get a sync LED that the DSL signal is OK? Can you get into the settings on the Speedstream? Make sure the VPI and VCI settings are still there to get on the DSL Network. If you are on BellSouth it is VPI=8 and VCI=35. It blew away the settings when you reset with the paper clip.

 

[CaptainKahuna]

I reset the router, not the modem, did it still erase the settings? I can't find any way to telnet or http into the modem to change settings.

 

[dmcowen674]

Put a post on DSLreports in the BellSouth Forum asking for ASG1. They should know exactly what they did to the Speedstream as far as the VPI and VCI info.

That is why I'm all for totally open systems which is why I'm selling DSL Modems directly to the public now. It is not burned in any firmware.