Problems with Tiscali and Siemens SE587

Niall Liszt · #1 March 19th, 2008, 10:50 AM

Not sure if the people who posted questions about this last month have sorted it out, but I have found a way to get my Tiscali broadband account to work on a Mac iBook using the Siemens SE587 router.

The key, as you suggested, is to use Firefox rather than Safari, to set up the router.

All I did was to open up the Tiscali page at the address 192.168.1.1, go to the setup tab, choose the ppp option then enter my Tiscali username and password, and click save.

On Safari, this leads to an error page and leaves you unable to get online. On Firefox, however, the save button leads to a page saying you will be returned in 30 seconds. It then counts down, goes back to the setup page and after I opened up a new tab it loaded the internet immediately.

I unplugged the Lan cable and it remained connected.

Hope this helps.

michael edwards · #2 May 3rd, 2008, 11:23 AM

Niall - I am having same problem but your fix fails. I am using same router + tiscali but with PowerBookG4 and OS 10.4.11 Both Safari and Mozilla fail to even let me into the site (rejecting the admin / admin initial login). Safari has once let me get as far as it permitted you, with the same error message when I tried to save.... But Firefox 2.0.0.11 won't let me in at all.... Should I try and get a later firefox? Or do I have to find someone with windows to inaugurate by service?

michael edwards · #3 May 3rd, 2008, 04:47 PM

Finally after a whole day, an hour on the phone to india and and other half hour to apple (my first recource to apple help ever, having been a user since Mac Plus) I made it work - using mozilla, but even then only with great difficulty, some re-starts.... and your suggestions above. Thanks. I still can't reliably re-enter the control website, though. Michael

Jon Jonas · #4 July 6th, 2008, 11:04 AM

i too am having this problem.

i'm using firefox, same router. i have a MacBook2,1 Intel Core 2 Duo

Have checked the settings with my ISP. The ISP says is uses protocol PPP0A.

my Mac keeps saying 'Could not find a PPPoE Server'. Having checked the Network Preferences all references seem to be do with PPPoE (not PPPoA)

does any one know how i can resolve this?

Rhisiart · #5 July 6th, 2008, 12:44 PM

British ISPs (e.g. Tiscali, BT, Virgin) offer discount ADSL connections in the same way that RyanAir and EasyJet offer discounted flights to cities in Europe from the Uk.

I'm not complaining. Take a RyanAir flight from Manchester to Treviso and you can be swanning about on a vapareto under the Rialto Bridge as quickly as a British Airways flight, for a fraction of the cost.

The downside is that you have to accept that cheap means crap service about 50% of the time. It's known as Blackjack Consumer Trading. You take your chances.

Try Zen (or not).

P.S. I have no connection with the Zen apart from the fact that it is owned by my Uncle Vijay (just joking).