It would be normal for a router to have a different IP address on the downstream side to the upstream side with the upstream side being of the 192.168.0/1.x type of address for your local LAN and the gateway and DNS is then set to be the router. Normally the downstream side is then connected directly to the cable modem and gets a IP address supplied via Virgin, but you never see that on your local LAN/wireless LAN. I for instance currently (and being cable it rarely changes) have a external IP address of 82.22.94.182 supplied by Virgin, but all my local equipment on 192.168.1.x addresses with both Gateway and DNS set to 192.168.1.1 9which is the router address). Just a thought - is your router set to act a DHCP server - you want it to so it can deliver local addresses to your PC's, and that is also where you set the address range to be used for the local subnet.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 June 2007 07:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Stupendipity! Morning Rick, > Have you tried powerline networking - ie Ethernet over the domestic > power cabling. Not yet. However, I have made some success - my wife can now login over cable broadband - her work updated her laptop with a much more recent VPN and it simply worked first time when she logged in yesterday. She is pleased again ! As for the wireless, still a problem. There's something wrong (I think) in my config of the router - when we connect via ethernet we get an IP from cable (81.x.x.x) and a default gateway. When we try to connect via wireless to the same router, it's dishing up it's own ip addresses (192.168.X.X) - which is exaclt what used to happen when we had ADSL over the BT line, but it appears that the internal LAN cannot see or talk to the external WAN. I need to get down and dirty in the config of the router again. As for the upstairs-downstairs problem, we may have a solution : put the cable modem in the bedroom (where one of the three cable connections is) and have the router next to it. This is good because my wife can wireless into her work from any room in the house. Run a cable from the router downstairs to another router that we have downstairs and now we have two wireless networks. Who knows, it might just work. I hope so because downstairs is my office with the main PC, printer etc - so we want to keep all that IT stuff out of site. Time will tell. Thanks for the URL though - very useful. Cheers, Norman. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
