[Chris B]

Please bear with me a s I am not very good at PC problems so be patient !

Before Christmas I was running my desktop through an ethernet cable to my ISP. The router I am using is a netgear DG834.
The router has a link for a wireless modem so I have purchased one - a D-Link DI 524.

I have wired it as shown - from my internet link to the netgear, from the netgear WAN link to the D-Link with a hard wired ethernet cable from the netgear to my desktop.

My desktop is working fin, I have normal internet access but my laptop will not conect to the internet.

The laptop has picked up my wireless link, it shows a 54Mbps 'normal' connection but then when I try to go to the internet it cannot connect.

I have typed in the CMD line the IPCONFIG address which returns lots of 'data' but one is the IP address on the laptop is 192.168.0.161 & on the desktop it is 192.168.0.2, I have also pinged the router and received 4 returns but when I ping a web address it cannot find it.

I am desperate - my kids are about to kill me !!!!

PS - laptop works fine hardwired through the netgear router

Any ideas?

Thx

 

[TerryNet]

Welcome, Chris B.

I didn't see where you showed your connections, but it sounds a little like you have two routers daisy chained together and they both are using 192.168.0.x subnet. If so, that won't work because computers connected to the second router will usually not get internet access.

If in fact this is what you are doing, here are 3 options:
a. ditch one of the routers;
b. change the LAN subnet on one of the routers;
c. configure one of the routers as an ethernet switch and optional wireless access point, as follows.

Connecting two SOHO broadband routers together. - JohnWill

Configure the IP address of the secondary router to be in the same subnet as the primary router, but out of the range of the DHCP server in the primary router. For instance DHCP server addresses 192.168.0.2 through 192.168.0.100, I'd assign the secondary router 192.168.0.254 as it's IP address.

Disable the DHCP server in the secondary router.

Setup the wireless section just the way you would if it was the primary router.

Connect from the primary router's LAN port to one of the LAN ports on the secondary router. If there is no uplink port and neither of the routers have auto-sensing ports, use a cross-over cable. Leave the WAN port unconnected!

 

[Chris B]

Can I try to understand, I have checked the IP addresses & the DHCP addresses :

Wireless router - IP address 192.168.0.1 & DHCP address 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.199
Wired router - IP address 192.168.0.1 & DHCP address 192.168.0.2 to 192.168.0.254

What are you suggesting I change and to what figure?

 

[Chris B]

Just a little more detail in response to the first point - the Netgear router is not a wireless router but has on the box a diagram that shows the port on the back and says it is a wireless access point for a wireless router. I have purely bought the router and tried to connect it through this port so not sure if the first comment about linking them in a daisy chain is correct?

 

[coulterp]

Just a little more detail in response to the first point - the Netgear router is not a wireless router but has on the box a diagram that shows the port on the back and says it is a wireless access point for a wireless router. I have purely bought the router and tried to connect it through this port so not sure if the first comment about linking them in a daisy chain is correct?

Correct the DG834 is a ADSL modem/router, ADSL Firewall router, ADSL Gateway router (no wireless), a myriad of names.
I'd leave it on the 192.168.0.1 IP address you note in the preceding posting. But you need to get the wireless device off the same IP address (you cannot have two devices on the same LAN with the same IP address.) You can either manually set the wireless access porint (WAP) to something different in the same subnet (e.g. 192.168.0.100) or set it to be a DHCP client to the router (the DG834) and let it get an IP address from that.
You also need to disable "DHCP server" capability in the WAP and that leaves the DG834 as the DHCP server for you network; and this is all clearly described in the Connecting two SOHO broadband routers together. - JohnWill description.

 

[Chris B]

Sorry I have been trying the advice "ditch one of the router's". I have now changed back to my old modem and linked the wirless router through this .... it works perfectly so is sorted - thnaks a lot !

 

[TerryNet]

OK, you can mark this 'solved' using the Thread Tools at the upper right.

Had I bothered to look up the Netgear and discovered that it is a modem/router combo (thanks coulterp!) I wouldn't have suggested to ditch it.

If you want to go with my suggestion (2), connect a computer to the D-Link, access it via browser, navigate to the LAN section and change its LAN address to 192.168.1.1. (Expect to lose connection until you 'repair' your connection or Restart your computer.)

For suggestion (3) I think coulterp and I have covered it completley, but ask if something is not clear.

 

[Chris B]

Thanks guys - I wouldn't have got there without your help - I will certainly recommend to others.