What you have to do to set this up is make sure all of the ports are plugged in properly. It's obvious that you want to take advantage of your firewall on your router otherwise you'd just plug in the switch that you have and be done with it. I would do a master reset on the router to begin with. You should see a recessed button on the back of the router. Use a pin to push that in for about 15 seconds while the router is plugged in. When it works, you'll see all of the lights in the front flash. After resetting the router, unplug it for about 30 secs and plug it back in. This will give the router default settings, so you are going to have to know what the default password is to get into this router. Usually it's;
Login: admin Password: admin You'll want to find out before you try this. Then you want to take the router and plug your PC directly into one of the ports on the back; NOT the WAN (Internet) port. Run an ipconfig /release, ipconfig /flushdns, ipconfig /renew. This will pull a new ip address from your router since by default it's DHCP enabled. Now type ipconfig /all. You will now be able to find out what IP address you need to login to the router because the router is your Default Gateway. Open a browser and type that IP Address in. Type the password to get in. You'll need to make sure that your WAN Mode or Internet Connection Type is set to DHCP. This means that your new router will pull a WAN IP address from your modem. Now in your DHCP Server settings, you'll need to make sure that's enabled. On my D- Link it's labeled simply DHCP Server Settings. You can accept the default settings b/c these are usually all you'll need or you can be creative with them. For your initial setup, I'd leave them alone and just enable the DHCP Server. This is all you'll need to configure on your router, so you can logout of it now. You'll need to plug the Modem into the WAN port on your Router. Then plug your desktops/ laptops into the open ports on the back of the router. Reboot the pc's or laptops or run the ipconfig routine from above, whatever is easiest for you. You'll now get a valid IP address that can chat on the internet. If your router is wireless, the same thing will apply once you have setup your wireless configurations. IPCONFIG Routine that can also be a helpful batch file: @echo off ipconfig /release ipconfig /flushdns ipconfig /renew ipconfig /registerdns exit Cheers, Matt www.crossloop.com/matthewbramer On Nov 22, 8:26 am, Inferno FS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I understand correctly then what you are telling me is that the IP > of the DNS in the router should be the IP I use to access the modem? > So that the router sends its request to access a webpage too the > modem? > > On 21 nov, 17:59, Ceresia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > First thing I would check is the internal Ip address of your modem and > > the ip address of your router, if they are the same then that would > > cause an issue with anything being allowed out to the internet. Next > > make sure your router is set to DNS / DHCP from the modem, and also > > that it is hosting DHCP itself with a certain range of IP addresses. > > > On Nov 21, 7:31 am, Inferno FS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello everybody > > > > Just bought a new ADSL modem. > > > A D-Link DSL 320T to be precise. When I connect the modem to the PC > > > everything works perfect. > > > When I place a router between the PC and the modem nothin works > > > anymore. > > > > Windows Vista's repair screens tell me it has something to do with the > > > DNS not working well... > > > Ofcourse it doesnt fix the problem when I click reset LAN settings for > > > the pc. > > > > Anyone have a clue of what the solution to my problem is because I all > > > kinds of things and none of them help. > > > > By the way, placing a switch between modem en pc works perfect...so > > > that telles me the problem is the router. > > > The router is pretty old school: SMC Barricade type SMC7004ABR > > > > Let me know- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Computer Tech Support" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
