Can't Configure Wireless Lan To Run At Home

[Artamus]

This problem must have been encountered by others, so here goes.

Last week I had Broadband ADSL installed and configured at home by TOT. Everything works fine.

Yesterday I bought a wireless LAN router for home use and connected it up. This is a TP-Link made device.

Connected router OK and works when connected to the PC fine.

The problem is that to configure (set up) the router for wireless LAN the instructions say start browser at connect to http://192.188.1.1

The problem is that this is the same address that TOT used to configure the Thompson Speed Touch modem that TOT installed. Therefore the screen diosplayed relates to the ADSL modem and not the configuration screen of the LAN router.

So problem is how to connect to this address in order to configure the router.

thanks

[malcolmswaine]

You can configure the Wireless Router independently and create a new network for it. First, remove the connection from your wireless router to your ADSL modem/router. Assuming your wireless router has Ethernet ports (most have one or two) connect with an Ethernet cable from your computer to the wireless router via Ethernet (if you can already connect using wifi, then fine, but using Ethernet reduces the complexity of the problem).

The wifi router should give your computer an ip address, probably something like 192.168.1.X. Click start, run and in the run open text box type

cmd

and click OK

You should be presented with a dos like screen

at the prompt type

ipconfig

you should get something like the following

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Windows IP Configuration

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection 2:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.100

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

Take the ip address from the default gateway (192.168.1.1 in the above example) and type it into your web browser address bar

http://<default gateway ip address>

you should now be connected to your wireless router. When you've logged in, you want to change two settings

1) wireless router wireless interface ip address

2) dhcp pool starting lease address

if you change wireless router ip address to 10.0.0.1 and the dhcp pool starting lease address to 10.0.0.2 that should sort things. Expect a blank web page to come up after clicking ok on saving a new ip address btw.

You should then reboot the wireless router and plug in and out the ethernet cable to force your computer to pick up a new ip address from the dhcp server on the wireless router

Again, from the dos screen (start->run cmd) type ipconfig. You should notice that both your ip address and default gateway have changed (hopefully, if everything has gone according to plan)

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Windows IP Configuration

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection 2:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.2

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.1

try plugging your wireless router back into the ADSL modem and see what happens. Give it a minute. After that you should be able to connect to the outside world through your WLAN

hope that helps, .... PM me if you get stuck