hope this helps,
Dafydd.
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Ergh, why won't this just work???
I just moved into a new apartment that has both Wired and Wireless internet included. The problem is that my particular apartment is mostly in a room with 4 brick walls (old factory) and I can't get Wireless in there. I went out and bought a Belkin AC1200 Wireless Router and have been trying to get it working and losing hair in fist fulls for past couple days.
I'm not even sure where to start - but have my computer hardwired to the Router and the ethernet cable plugged in to one of the LAN ports (not the WAN). I think have tried setting the router to Access Point Mode and/or disabling DCHP and putting in a new IP of 192.168.2.2 (original router is 192.168.2.1) but it will never let me back to the router control panel nor connects with the internet.
I've also discovered how to connect to the Router which seems to be for the whole building - so I have the IP Address and Subnet Mask it lists as well as IP Addressing Values from Beginning to Ending if that helps.
Any thoughts? Note that I have no idea what I'm doing with networking - just trying to read anything that can point me in the right direction.
HELP!!!
THANKS!!!
Philip ![]()
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Why the wireless router statement as if you want to connect it to the wireless signal you currently can connect to with your computer? Are you trying to get wireless access to the internet, or is there a wire to your living space you can use?
hit the major reset button on the router and start over. You can then again access it's html program pages. That may be at IP 192.168.1.1, the most common one. Leave DHCP on unless you want to assign a static IP, but for now let it be assigned by DHCP. Make sure you have a range of IP addresses allowed equal to all your devices you plan to use through it and maybe one more for any visitor you allow to use it. LAN port to computer, and cable to WAN, or cable connector, as needed, on router.
Only then can you set it up for you to have wireless if you want.
I appreciate your help. I'm way over my head on networking and desperately need to get back to work. Sorry for the confusion.
Basically, I can't get the buildings Wireless in the majority of my apartment - including where my office is. In that area though, there is an Ethernet port which provides internet as well. What I'm attempting to do is simply add Wireless capability in that area via the Ethernet port.
I was able to locate the IP of the buildings main router (I think) and through the router control panel there I can see the LAN IP Address, Subnet Mask and Starting and Ending Address. I then (after resetting again) go to my router control panel page and when to Local Network Settings and punched in the IP address from the buildings Router along with the subnet mask and put in the IP Pool Starting and Ending IP addresses. This is along with a cable running from the Ethernet Port to the WAN port and a cable running from a LAN port to the computer. I still get a red 'Disconnected' on my router and no internet access.
Does that make more sense?
Thanks so very much for your help!
Philip
on your computer. Go into the networking area and choose to make a LAN port connection. The router's DHCP should then assign you an IP address. As for the router, once you hooked the ethernet wall port to the WAN port on the router, that should have been sufficient, so long as the main router that controls that line gave it an IP address too.
You could also run a cord between the wall and the computer itself and set up a LAN connection and use it that way, but you wanted a wireless router on it.
If you then want to connect by wireless, the process is two fold. You need to turn on the wireless access in the router's program while connected by LAN to it with your computer and give it an SSID name, choose the encryption method, WEP or WPA, set the passkey or phrase. Make a record of what those are for when you set up the computer wifi.
On the computer, if it has inbuilt wifi, hopefully it's already working. If so, then you should see the new wifi signal you created, it will be the SSID you gave it. If you have to add a USB device for wifi, then you first need to install the driver files that came with it, then plug it in. Insure in device manager that it's seen and working. You then go to networking and create a wifi connection. That's where you will insert the information about the wifi signal you already saved.