Moving to Taipei soon from the US. Thinking of bringing my ASUS wifi router. My question is 1) do Taiwan ISPs allow you to use your own router, and 2) would one sold in the US even work in Taiwan?
Thanks!
[quote=“greander”]Moving to Taipei soon from the US. Thinking of bringing my ASUS wifi router. My question is 1) do Taiwan ISPs allow you to use your own router, and 2) would one sold in the US even work in Taiwan?
Thanks![/quote]
Are you aware that ASUS is a Taiwanese company?
On the other hand, the possibility of using your own router will depend on what you have. If your apartment uses cable, you will have to use a cablemodem that will convert cable to ethernet, than you can configure your ASUS router to act as a switch/WiFi access point. It’s how I did it.
Yes, I am aware that ASUS is a Taiwanese company. Just wondering if there is some silly rule or technology issue that would keep me from doing exactly what you’re describing. Doesn’t sound like there is. Thanks!
The only silly rules regarding tech are in regard to DVD/Blueray player zones.
DVD/Blue Ray player zones. Question… Aren’t Taiwan and the USA in the same BlueRay region? And why can I not find a cheap Chinese branded Blue Ray player that is multi region?
OP… What Blaquesmith is telling you, you probably can’t comprehend until you experience it. If you come here with your name brand DVD player or even you lap top’s DVD player, you will find that every DVD here that you rent or buy will not work.
The world is devided into stupid regions. Taiwan is Region 3 and the USA is region one. You are not allowed to watch a disk from a different region or the world will self destruct.
Seriously… you can buy many cheap Chinese brands that have disabled the region code or you can buy software for your computer to ask the DVD drive to ignore the region codes. Talk to a resident foreigner to set you up.
If you attempt to do it on your own, you run the risk of having you computer’s DVD player set to Taiwan’s region permanently.
Blaquesmith , I know nothing about Blue Ray region codes I’m thinking of going Blue Ray if the discs offer enough bonus material. Any multi region brands? I know, this is a router discussion… but I feel guilty shaking down foreigners who buy region three dvds for pennies on the dollar… 
Will work. That ISO/OSI stuff and the TCP/IP protocols are the same worldwide. Have to replace your user name and password within the router with your new one if the ISP gives you PoPoPEEE or whatever this damned protocol is called where you need username/password to connect to the ISP.
Google showed me a dancing girl with a wool hat called popo-pee but that is not related I guess.
Unless you move to North Korea that should work everywhere. Maybe even there, who knows.
[quote=“Taiwan_Student”]DVD/Blue Ray player zones. Question… Aren’t Taiwan and the USA in the same BlueRay region? And why can I not find a cheap Chinese branded Blue Ray player that is multi region?
OP… What Blaquesmith is telling you, you probably can’t comprehend until you experience it. If you come here with your name brand DVD player or even you lap top’s DVD player, you will find that every DVD here that you rent or buy will not work.
The world is devided into stupid regions. Taiwan is Region 3 and the USA is region one. You are not allowed to watch a disk from a different region or the world will self destruct.
Seriously… you can buy many cheap Chinese brands that have disabled the region code or you can buy software for your computer to ask the DVD drive to ignore the region codes. Talk to a resident foreigner to set you up.
If you attempt to do it on your own, you run the risk of having you computer’s DVD player set to Taiwan’s region permanently.
Blaquesmith , I know nothing about Blue Ray region codes I’m thinking of going Blue Ray if the discs offer enough bonus material. Any multi region brands? I know, this is a router discussion… but I feel guilty shaking down foreigners who buy region three dvds for pennies on the dollar… [/quote]
regionfreedvd.net/region-codes.html
You can use VLC player and set it to ignore the zone protection so it can play the DVDs and Blurays without any hacking. In this video they explain how to do it: youtube.com/watch?v=tZAbZQDOOio
However, I admit than according to the DRM acts and all that nonsense stuff made up so you have to buy multiple copies and players, bypassing the region codes is considered to be illegal (yes, even if you’ve bought an original DVD/Bluray).
It’s the easiest thing in the world to attach your router to the HiNet supplied modem/router.
Just plug it in and it’ll work. Kind of.
The problem is that That HiNet’s hardware is already set up as a router by default. Your new new router will never see the real WAN address and cannot run VPN, FTP or other services supported by DDWRT because they require direct internet access.
When you run 2 routers in series, you get a subnet on a subnet, with all the hassles of port forwarding twice! And, if you play games, there’s increased latency.
To get the most out of a DDWRT router, you need to disable the HiNet router (leaving the modem bridged to ethernet). Your new router then handles the PPPoE login, and gets its own WAN address, and is able to run services that require a direct connection to the internet.
Hope that makes sense.
Hi there,
I brought a Netgear DG834Gv5 router (ADSL2 + router purchased in UK) with my IP phone thinking it will work but it does not. My netgear router has vpn client configuration. My local IP address is in the 10.3.X.X range and this allows me to be on the office network hence use the IP phone to answer calls made to the UK office.
I have tried to link:
- the ADSL line directly to my router (as I do not have a WAN port on the netgear router) then my netgear to my laptop
- the ADSL modem to my netgear (via a network cable) then my netgear to my laptop
- the ADSL modem to an existing D-Link router (via WAN) then the D-Link to netgear (via the network cable) then my netgear to my laptop
The results are that I get internet connection on my laptop with option 3 but my local IP address is set to 192.168.X.X range which is not good to me as I must have a 10.3.X.X local IP address as my IP phone has the VPN set to it.
Could you please let me know what I am doing wrong (if the Netgear DG834Gv5 can be used in Taiwan) or what router I could buy that has the same vpn functionalities that a Netgear DG834Gv5 has?
Thanks a lot
Guess you should try to connect to your Netgear’s admin page with a browser and see how it is tweaked inside. The address is the internal network address of your Netgear, so that might be 192.168.X.1 if the IP address your notbook gets is 192.168.X.Y, where X and Y are numbers 0…255 (not the whole range for Y).
Typing “ipconfig” without the “” in a DOS box on your notebook (I assume Windows) should also show you an address called gateway, which should be your Netgear (unless your Netgear is now in switch mode and just relays the traffic in which case it would be the DLink).
Let us assume the gateway would be 192.168.10.1
Opening a browser and typing 192.168.10.1 should show you the homepage of that gateway/router.
User name is usually admin or root or administrator.
PWD is often empty or some standard stuff unless some sys-admin in UK has setup something. Google can help for typical passwords for a brand.
Then would come the adventure of checking the config pages of that router box.
Hi bob_honest,
my local IP address is 10.3.X.Y with a default gateway of 10.3.X.1 when I am connected to my netgear router so that is the IP address I type in the browser to enter the router interface.
So, if I am connected directly to my router and not to the D-Link, I can type 10.3.X.1 and get the router interface on screen. I can also access it and see the settings.
If I do manage to get internet connection (like in option 3 described in my previous post) then it is because I get assigned a local IP address of 192.168.X.Y.
It sounds to me that even if my laptop is connected to the netgear router, I am getting the IP address dished out by either the D-Link or the ADSL modem.
You mentioned that “my Netgear could be now in switch mode and just relays the traffic in which case it would be the DLink”.
Is there a way of ensuring that the Netgear router does not get the IP range dished out by the D-Link?
Thanks
I think you will have an easier time using your netgear modem/router and IP phone rather than trying to configure new hardware to set up the VPN.
Can you not copy the Hinet modem/routers setup details to your netgear modem/router?
I just know some router boxes have this switch mode where they just relay what comes in. So that would explain it. A 192.168.X.Y IP is definitely a local one. So that should come from the DLink unless the modem has its own router in it. So if your notebook gets such IP from the Negear then it seems to only relay. Must be in the settings somewhere.
On the other hand if you can connect to Netgear by 10.X.Y.1 then it seems to be working with the VPN setting basically. Confusing. I am not really helpful currently, I know…
Hi guys,
with regard to your suggestion monkey, unfortunately I could not copy the config from the D-Link router or ZyXel modem as my Netgear is configured with VPN functionality that unless is present will not let me connect or use the phone.
With regard to yuor comment bob_honest, yes the IP address was coming from the D-Link (DHCP was enabled on it).
The only way I made it work was to buy a Netgear from PCHome (one wiht the WAN port) and configure it so that it did mimic my european netgear (which does not have the WAN port being a router and ADSL device together).
I have been reading so many manuals and forums. I have tried all the suggestions given (as some people reckoned I could still use my netgear) but it did not work so thew way it works now is.
DSL line goes into the ZyXEL modem
A network cable from the ZyXEL modem onto the WAN port of the new netgear router
A network cable from the new netgear to my laptop.
DHCP is enabled on the ZyXEL modem (with range 192.168.1.101 > 192.168.1.200
The fact that the DHCP is enabled on the ZyXEL modem does not matter as my laptop IP address will be given based on the DHCP in my new netgear
On the new netgear I have configured the broadband settings (username and password); LAN setup; DHCP; IKE; and VPN policy.
I had to reboot the router a couple of times and now I can use the internet (which had not been the main issue) and IP Phone (main problem).
Thanks to both of you to give me suggestions. I appreciated it.