Need help connecting here too!

[ramswell]

Ok. Here's what I got going....


A DSL Modem in my daughters room where the MAIN LINE COMES IN AT,
feeding into a D-Link WIRED ROUTER.

The wired router then feeds into three other places and the fourth
feeds into the living room where the DI-514 WIRELESS is at. I got
three ports going to other stuff, but I want to set up the wireless
for my PC right across from it about 5 feet away.

I tried to set it up, and get an excellent signal strength, I can
get it to connect, but I can't get it to go online when clicking
explorer! So I went into my daughters room and did the start, run,
cmd, ipconfig/all thing and found that the D-Link IP address in her
room is IDENTICAL to the D-LINK address in the living room (which I
believe is the problem as two devices can't use the same Ip address).

So here goes my question....

How can I change he DI-514's IP ADDRESS to something totally
different so it will connect to the internet (if indeed that is the
problem at all)?

If it's not the problem, are there any other ideas as to what the
problem could be?

Thanks for all the help in advance, as my daughters room works
perfect so I know I'm already more than halfway to the solution....

Charles

shifty_butch@hotmail.com

[seaweedsteve]

...
>
> How can I change he DI-514's IP ADDRESS to something totally
> different so it will connect to the internet (if indeed that is the
> problem at all)?
>

I'll take a shot at this-


You want to disconnect the wireless from the wired router and
configure it directly.

First, run ipconfig, from a pc connected to the WIRED router. Note
the IP address for the gateway/main router. Say it's 192.168.0.1

Now, check what the DEFAULT address of your DI-514 is after reset.
Should be the address above.

Go into network connections for your Local Area Connection>properties>
TCP/IP properties and assign an address in the same subnet, say
192.168.0.10. Click on subnet to allow it to auto fill and then give
it a gateway of 192.168.0.1

Disconnect the DI-514 from your local network.
Reset it to default factory settings.
Connect a pc to one of it's LAN ports with an ethernet cable.
Type in it's default address into your browser and then access it's
user interface using the default name and password.
From there you can change it's LAN address to something else, say
192.168.0.2.

You might also want to turn off the DHCP and the firewall. Let the
main router give out addresses.

Finally, reconnect the wireless to the wired via LAN port on BOTH of
them (typically).

Test wireless connectivity with security off, then enable WPA or
better security.

Steve


"The following reset procedure will completely restore the default
settings on your D-Link device including your password. This procedure
applies to the DI-514, DI-524, DI-604, DI-614+, DI-624, DI-754,
DI-764, DI-774, DI-784, DI-804V, DWL-700AP, DWL-800AP+, DWL-900AP+,
DWL-1000AP+, DWL-2000AP, DWL-2100AP, DWL-6000AP, DWL-7000AP, and
DWL-7100AP.

Step 1 Locate the reset pinhole on the back of the unit.

Step 2 With the unit powered on, press and hold the Reset button.

Step 3 Hold the Reset button for about 10 seconds.

Step 4 Release the Reset button.

Step 5 The unit will reboot. Allow 20-30 seconds before reconnecting.

Step 6 The device is now at factory defaults.

Note: Do not recycle power during the reset procedure.

The default user name for most D-Link devices is admin and the
password is left blank."
- NOTE,could be the opposite - user is blank and pw is admin. Check
the manual.

Default gateway address should be 192.168.0.1

[seaweedsteve]

Rereading this, I see that I was not clear the the pc you are
assigning an address to is the same one that you will use to configure
the wireless router by direct ethernet connection.

You could probably get away with skipping this step at the beginning,
at least, but it's a good idea.