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gilana ([personal profile] gilana) wrote2011-04-04 04:25 pm
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router help

I just bought a wireless router, so that my boyfriend can play networked games on his Nintendo DS and I can get better quality on streaming Netflix on my iPhone.  I already have a wired router in place for our cable modem in the living room, and I had hoped to daisy chain this one on in my bedroom, since I'm not sure the signal would be strong enough from the living room.  Turns out that you can't just plug it in with the default settings and have that work, though, and I don't know enough about networking to make sense of the solutions I'm finding online.  Anyone out there willing to help walk me through it?  Thanks!
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[personal profile] kelkyag 2011-04-04 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
What do you have under setup / internet / "My Internet Connection is"? And under setup / network settings / Router IP Address? I'm not finding something obvious-to-me to disable NAT, which I'm assuming it's doing, but I may be wrong.
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[personal profile] gilana 2011-04-04 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"My Internet Connection is" is set to "Dynamic IP (DHCP)" and Router IP Address is 192.168.0.1. I can send screenshots, if that's helpful at all.
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[personal profile] kelkyag 2011-04-04 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Try changing the Router Address to 192.168.0.2, or if you can talk to the existing router, check whether it also thinks it's 192.168.0.1. You'll also need to change the URL you're pointing to talk to the wireless router if you do that. (La la la, it has a 'reset' button, right?)
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[personal profile] gilana 2011-04-04 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
The existing router does think it's at 192.168.0.1. But I tried changing the router address on the wireless one before and got the same "LAN subnet conflicts with WAN subnet" with any value I tried to change it to.

(And yes, it has a reset button :)
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[personal profile] kelkyag 2011-04-04 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
What addresses have you tried? How about 192.168.1.1? (That is, move it to a different subnet -- does the other router also have a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0?

(I'm about to run off, but will come back and poke at this further if it hasn't been sorted out in a couple of hours.)
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[personal profile] gilana 2011-04-04 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm... just tried that, and it let me put in the values and save them, then had me reboot the router. But when it came back up I couldn't connect to it at the new IP address.

Tried pinging it, and I got:
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
Request timeout for icmp_seq 3


I tried pinging the old router and got:
PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Host is down
ping: sendto: Host is down
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
ping: sendto: Host is down
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
ping: sendto: Host is down
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2

Dunno if that's useful info... Thanks som uch for your continued help, I'll keep you posted if I figure anything out in the meantime!

(Oh, and the other router is also a D-Link, and seems to have most of the same presets, so yes to the subnet mask.)
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