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Lynksis wirelss router troubles


Duncan Clench
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I've got a 2wire BT wireless router and the signal is shite, so I decided to invest in a wireless-N router from linksys and a wireless-N USB adapter.

 

Everything's installed ok. The new router confirms that it's a-ok and there's an internet connection but it's lying. I can connect to it using the adapter ok, but the connection is 'Local only'. I don't want to have to send it back because it's a thing of beauty and I've heard great things about wireless-N. Anyone got any idea why it won't see the internet now? I wondered if it's because there are 2 wireless routers close to each other, or is it possible that the 2wire one encodes the broadband signal differently.

 

Any hints or ideas much appreciated! Oh, and all drivers are up-to-date. Running Vista unfortunately.

 

By the way, here it is. It's like porn for nerds.

 

Satellite?blobcol=urldata&blobheadername1=Content-Type&blobheadername2=Content-Disposition&blobheadervalue1=image%2Fjpeg&blobheadervalue2=inline%3B+filename%3DWRT160N_med.jpg&blobkey=id&blobtable=MungoBlobs&blobwhere=1193776891611&ssbinary=true

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I've got a 2wire BT wireless router and the signal is shite, so I decided to invest in a wireless-N router from linksys and a wireless-N USB adapter.

 

Everything's installed ok. The new router confirms that it's a-ok and there's an internet connection but it's lying. I can connect to it using the adapter ok, but the connection is 'Local only'. I don't want to have to send it back because it's a thing of beauty and I've heard great things about wireless-N. Anyone got any idea why it won't see the internet now? I wondered if it's because there are 2 wireless routers close to each other, or is it possible that the 2wire one encodes the broadband signal differently.

 

Any hints or ideas much appreciated! Oh, and all drivers are up-to-date. Running Vista unfortunately.

 

By the way, here it is. It's like porn for nerds.

 

 

 

 

Can you connect to the router setup pages OK (usually on 192.168.1.1 or similar)? If so, that proves your OK from the PC to the router, and the issue may well be router->ISP, in which case check any firewalls within the router, check connection settings (VPI 0, VCI 38, Encapsulation PPPoA VC-Mux being common for UK ADSL), username and password.

 

 

Porn for nerds is using an AR7WRD chipset router with custom firmware.. :yes:

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Yeah got access to the setup pages so can look into the firewall. What am I looking for exactly? Allowing BT as and ISP? The BT router is connected to the lynksis with an ethernet cable.

 

 

 

...is where you lost me!

 

Ahh.. Ignore that bit then, I assumed it was a modem/router, which would totally replace your BT jobbie and not just a plain router.

 

What's the model number of it?

 

*edit*. Ok, I've found it. BRB

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Yeah it's just a router.

 

I think it's WRT160N (at work right now, will confirm later). I wrongly assumed that if I plug it into my modem/router it would work right off the bat. Like I said, I can connect to it, but get 'local only' connection.

 

Been thinking about it for ages and can't get my head round why it won't work.

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Right. BT 2-wire routers use 192.168.1.254 for their config page if I recall rightly, and that 160N will use 192.168.1.1?

 

If so, if could be both trying to use the same 192.168.1.x addressing space, causing a conflict.

 

Go into the setup for your 160N and change "Local IP address" to 192.168.2.1

 

This will change the login addy for your 160N to 192.168.2.1 instead of 192.168.1.1 by the way, but that'll resolve any potential conflicts there.

 

 

If you *dont* log into the Linksys with 192.168.1.1, or 192.168.1.whatever, it might be summat else. Let me know, anyway... The more info the better.

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Update: Thanks to Meat I got a connection to the outside world. Now I'm just having to deal with the fact that if I go a few yards away from the router it loses the link and can't connect again. Something I can hopefully sort out but I could be back with more dumb questions soon.

 

Wireless-N? Bollocks more like.

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I tried disabling the BT wireless signal the other day but it appears that you can't which is a fucker. I can change the channel on it so I'll give that a bash.

 

How do you know so much about this stuff?! Here's another question to make you laugh at how stupid I am. What's DNS all about, and is there anything you can do with it to make cool things happen?! Is it ALWAYS 255.255.255.0? If so... what's the point?!

 

You are the wireless networking guru, and I am humbled by your vast knowledge. Thanks for sharing!

 

Ok... I looked it up on Wiki. Translates web addresses to IP addresses. Handy. So why is it 255.255.255.0?!

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I tried disabling the BT wireless signal the other day but it appears that you can't which is a fucker. I can change the channel on it so I'll give that a bash.

 

How do you know so much about this stuff?! Here's another question to make you laugh at how stupid I am. What's DNS all about, and is there anything you can do with it to make cool things happen?! Is it ALWAYS 255.255.255.0? If so... what's the point?!

 

You are the wireless networking guru, and I am humbled by your vast knowledge. Thanks for sharing!

 

Ok... I looked it up on Wiki. Translates web addresses to IP addresses. Handy. So why is it 255.255.255.0?!

 

DNS is Domain Name System. It is used to translate The Liverpool Way Website into its IP address 72.232.233.42.

 

What you are talking about above, i.e. 255.255.255.0 is subnetmask. It has nothing to do with DNS. It is used to divide IP addresses into groups of IP addresses. It can be something else, internally to my work, it is 2655.255.252.0.

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DNS is Domain Name System. It is used to translate The Liverpool Way Website into its IP address 72.232.233.42.

 

What you are talking about above, i.e. 255.255.255.0 is subnetmask. It has nothing to do with DNS. It is used to divide IP addresses into groups of IP addresses. It can be something else, internally to my work, it is 2655.255.252.0.

 

Good point, well put.

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