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Have just come back from a friends house having spent 3 hours trying to connect to their broadband! Also spoent about an hour on the phone to Delhi speaking to some clueless folk who couldnt even speak english.

I was wandering if any one can help and suggest the next steps as customer service is a waste of time with Talk Talk it seems.

Basically was trying to connect using a vista laptop to a EchoLife HG520s router. It seemed to connect but no world symbol on the network icon and it said unidentified network, local access only or similar. This happened with both wireless and LAN connection with ethernet cable to router. No internet pages could be accessed and also no access to the router on 192.168.1.1 with a broken page. All router lights power, wlan, adsl and internet are on. There is a crackle on the phone line when the router is switched on which goes completely when you switch off the router. Tried 3 different adsl filters with same noise on every one and no internet. Was working fine til sunday and no changes were made except microsoft updates installed automatically i think. There has always been a crackle on the line and broadband used to work fine.

Any idea what can be done next as the next time my mate calls Talk Talk wil lbe to cancel his service...
 
Try this. I’ve found it useful in the past when I have no internet or the computer won't talk to the ADSL modem/Router
Start/Control Panel/Classic View/Network and Sharing Center
On that page click "View Status"
In the next box click "Diagnose"
It may or may nor find a problem but I end up clicking "Reset the network adapter etc" which seems to kick everything into life again.
 
I had another thought. You could try setting the router back to Factory Default and then put your user name/password etc back in again. To reset the modem you need to push the reset button on the back of the modem using a pin. Obviously ALL your settings will be lost as it will revert back to it's factory settings. I see EchoLife HG520s is a TalkTalk router...I can see why you're having problems.
 
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The router could also be set up with MAC address filtering so unless the wireless devices MAC address is put in to the router it wont connect.
 
What you need to do is take a closer look at the connection status 'Details' for your router in Vista and check to see whether the routers Gateway IP (IPv4) address is correct and that it has assigned the IP's properly. If it's working correctly then 192.168.1.1 should show for the Default Gateway, DHCP server and DNS server. Your computers address is likely to have a similar form, probably 192.168.1.2.

I would also check your 'Network and Sharing Centre' to make sure that only one (assuming a normal home environment) network exists and it should be a 'Home network'. There will also be a status for 'Access type', which might give you an idea of how far its connectivity has got before reaching problems. If it says 'Internet' there then the problem might be elsewhere because it should be functioning normally.
 
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