Tips and Tricks

This is a quick guide on How to enable connection to the Internet that is always ON, for users with DataOne BSNL Broadband and Huwaie MT882 Modem

My problem was: I always used the “dial-to-connect” method for accessing net. and now since my PC would wake up from hibernation, dialing to connect would be a problem, so I needed the net to always ON. but somehow every time I chose the option “always on” while creating a new connection in the Connection Wizard of XP, it said ‘Your Internet is already configured..’ some crap like that, while it was not, because I couldn’t access the net.

I always had both the USB cable and the Ethernet cable plugged in. Had no idea through which my PC used.

So this time I decided to yank out the USB and use just the Ethernet, since anyway there is no support via PPPoA on Linux. (I dual boot)

Go to http://192.168.1.1 in your browser and login with the

username : admin

password : admin

Click on WAN settings to your left.

Here the ’PVC-0′ settings have to be altered a bit.

WAN TYPE should be set to > “PPP”

Connection Type, set to > “PPPoE”

Encap > “LLC”

Default Route > “Enabled”

Username > yourusername@dataone

Password > yourpassword

Use DNS > “Enabled”

Max Idle Time checked to > “Always On”

Click on Save and Reboot and wait for your modem to completely reboot and of course the page displaying “Wait modem rebooting in x minutes” should lead you back to the WAN settings / modem page.

I wrote this little tutorial because as far as I know there isn’t one explicitly explaining the same for newbies. Hope it helps

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