Duncan, Do you have neighbors with wireless?
I'm still using my original D-Link 802.11b here and the machine in the kitchen has a stronger signal from the neighbor's house than from my own WAP. Between the way the townhomes here are arranged and other geographical and physical restraints, there's not much I can do about it. Checking the Wireless Neighborhood, there are at least 4 distinct wireless nets that routinely show up in the scan. My nearest neighbor and me are the only two using encryption. Have you tried setting up on different channels (probably not the defaults)? _jim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of DHSinclair Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 7:37 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] subnets? inline below................ At 05:36 11/15/2007 -0800, you wrote: >snip > >Yes, live as in the internet routable IP your DSL >provider allocates to you. >Yes, the router should be doing the PPoE effectively >making your modem only act >as a modem rather than the stock modem/router combo it >came configured as. > >Bottom line is if the modem is in bridge mode, the >router configured for PPoE, >then the router's WAN port should be getting a live IP >not a private one. This >makes the link between the router and the internet >appear to be direct as if >there was no modem. Thank for this combo answer. I thought this is as it should be, but for the last 2 weeks I have been having all manner of wan outages when either the modem, router, or both would go away and I'd get not Net. When I checked the router it always said it was fully connected but not at any of the clients. And, I found out that the westell modem and/or the router does not care to be in the same room with a microwave oven. I found I could kill any connection when warming up a mug of water for coffee! I no this because I killed an online AM radio stream out of SoCal 3 times in a row. Moved the modem and router to the middle of my house (40ft from kitchen). Better, but still getting intermittent online outages. I've been packet sniffing most of the afternoon to see if anything odd pops out. >snip >I am sure they could with some combination of settings >but why bother when modem >bridge mode removes the issue? I now agree. It has been better since I forced the modem back to "bridged ethernet." I still do not have a clue how this setting reverted back to PPPoE (and double NAT'g) again. Very odd. I change stuff. Give up and go to bed. Come in the next morning and settings are reversed. I sure hope bellsouth is not doing nightly resets when they rotate my dynamic IP addy(?)......... >snip >If you still get a private 192.168.x.x address at the >router's WAN port, you are >NOT in bridge mode. We may be talking past each other on this. I do not recall ever seeing the modem's 192.168.1.254 (internal) IP addy at/in my router. The router always showed a routable IP addy on its' wan side. Addy's like 68.x.x.x - 72.x.x.x. And this was with the modem in both PPPoE and Bridged Ethernet. And, then even when the router says connected, but online is dead to clients connected to the router. Can I say I hate these new "smart" modems? >You should really consider DHCP; Further you should >consider a DHCP setup that >reserves IP based on MAC address so that you can >assign the IP you want to a PC >but do not have to do it at the PC itself because the >PC in DHCP mode will still >get the right IP based on the lease. You are wearing down on this. I do see that the router will allow me to have both statically assigned (reserved) IP addys and DHCP assigned addys. I may still enable DHCP and let the router assign addys from 198.168.1.1 - .1.99. Then I can 'reserve' the addys from 1.100 (server) thru 1.253 (router) so that they remain fixed. I am still pondering this plan ATM. I need to dig farther into the d-link docs to see if I can do the full 'reserve' for everybody now. Then I can let the router just pull a pool addy for when family visits and wishes to use the network features. Yes, I do understand the benefits of this. I will do some more RTFM. Thank you for your patience and for sharing your knowledge. Next, I may come back with questions about ARP/RARP. But I need time in WindShark first......... :) Best, Duncan
