Wi-Fi Protected Setup pushbutton disabled by telco-provided modem?

[japlytic]

Yesterday, I was setting up a Telstra-provided Thomson TG782T broadband modem/wireless access point for a customer. It supported Wi-Fi Protected Setup (it had a pushbutton for this function).
When I tried to connect with my laptop with the Wi-Fi Protected Setup method, the Telstra access point would only allow connection with the PIN method, even though I successfully connected at home (with a non-telco supplied access point) with the PBC method.

Apparently, the Telstra access point has the PBC method disabled.

Do you know of other telco-supplied access points with the Wi-Fi Protected Setup with the PBC method disabled (only allows the PIN method)?

[kikkoman]

Re: Wi-Fi Protected Setup pushbutton disabled by telco-provided modem?

i have a Thomson TG585 v7 that does have a pushbutton but it doesn't work at all (it's not mentioned in the config either). it's not lit up (i think it usually should).

i got it from my provider, so it had custom firmware (that used up 2 out of 4 LAN ports for IP-TV which i don't use anyway) but most importantly it frequently locked up and rebooted, especially when i used bittorrent.
i flashed it to a known stable official FW and voilà, all problems gone.
can't really say if the pushbutton setup worked before the flash.

[Player2]

Re: Wi-Fi Protected Setup pushbutton disabled by telco-provided modem?

Ditto on reflashing with a non-customized OEM firmware. I had to do this on a D-Link (blech) WiFi router that was provided by Verizon with FiOS service. The router would drop connections constantly and the signal quality was abysmal. Of course D-Link had several newer firmwares that improved these issues, but Verizon never updated theirs. I had to force the router into a recovery mode to flash the OEM firmware, as the Verizon firmware rejected the OEM update through the normal admin console.

[japlytic]

Re: Wi-Fi Protected Setup pushbutton disabled by telco-provided modem?

I forgot to say, you need to press the Wi-Fi Protected setup button for at least 5 seconds to activate this function.

[stevo1210]

Re: Wi-Fi Protected Setup pushbutton disabled by telco-provided modem?

Why does Telstra have to do this to their routers? it drives me nuts too.... so much so that I left Telstra a year ago for good.