Originally Posted by Flutterfly

Thanks for the suggestion Val, yes I knew I could do that but somehow, I was not keen on the idea of having a bad day, then having a public grumble, and our gite guests being able to ID me!! Probably very unlikely, but we like to keep our guests under the illusion that everything is always rosy in the garden!

LOL! If everything WAS rosy in the garden, half of our guests wouldn't bother coming! It's part of the attraction for them I think, to see just what it's really like living here and running a business to boot!

I do quite like the idea of a gite owners forum, do you have a link for the one you mentioned Le Chant? It can be really helpful to see how others do things.

Originally Posted by Renauld

I think the Linksys boxes are the best! However you don't get the free telephone calls with them because they don't have the phone connectors on them and it's hard to get the settings from Alice/Orange etc.......!

You could stick with your standard Alice box and hard wire a Linksys wifi box into that and use the wifi from the Linksys box for you guests...... Be careful about the user passwords for the Alice box as the default user name and password could leave you vulnerable to hacking from your guests!

You can get full Root access to your Alice box by using the following:

Go to Internet Explorer/Firefox etc.... and type in 192.168.1.1 into the address bar and press enter.

Now login using the user name: root
And then use the password: h4y2svl0

You will be able to do much more than you usually can, including changing the normal user login passwords etc...

Another little hack with Alice box is to make the second ethernet port available by using this hidden link: http://192.168.1.1/mylinetvservices.html

Have fun!

Originally Posted by Le Chant

That link doesn't work for me and my Alice Box Renaud. takes me to a blank screen!

Originally Posted by Renauld

Sorry Chant hould have said: you must login using the root username and password before using the link.

Originally Posted by Flutterfly

Renauld do you have any similar suggestions for my orange livebox??

Originally Posted by Le Chant

Yep! Did that too. Still a blank screen.

Originally Posted by Ka Ora!

For 250 meters and good old fashioned stone walls i would suggest some High Gain antennas like this one and a Range extender like this in the Gites. Hard wire a New router to the Livebox and add an Extenal antenna and an external at the gite.

However the least work method is having a phone line in the gite and a Adsl router/modem there, don't use a livebox buy your own they are not up to the potential work load of three or more customers trying to use them wireless'ly. You could just have the new phone line install in you house and run a Telephone extension over to the Gite as long as the Adsl filter is the Primary Socket off it. The wireless range on the livebox sucks the encryption sucks the only good thing is the Voip port and its the only box that Orange support for Unlimited Voip service. The TV sucks as well it is prone to suffering from some horrible sound delay but thats related to the Mpeg decoder that Orange use.