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Lost trying to get my netopia router to work.

Jul 29, 2004 11:58PM PDT

I am trying to configure my network to work with this Netopia T1 router, my previous router worked with the Ip of 192.168.100, and so on...this I am trying to configure this new router to use that same address scheme, is there anyone that could help. I'm not that great with routers. I"m running windows 2000 server, and I'm trying to use dhcp to distribute the private addressing scheme

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Re: Lost trying to get my netopia router to work.
Jul 30, 2004 12:11AM PDT

Replace it and move on. Even the lowest end Linksys would make that a done deal in about 20 minutes.

Ebay the Netopia.

Bob

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Re: Lost trying to get my netopia router to work.
Jul 30, 2004 12:14AM PDT

See the problem with that Is that I my company just changed over from on provider to Verizon, and that's there router. I even tried to plug there router up to a linksys so the linsys could do all the work, but the netopia wont let me.

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Lost
Jul 30, 2004 12:24AM PDT

With all that you've written, there's not enough for me (or other forum members) to tell you to "do this."

All I can see (for now) is that the Netopia is an issue since the ones I've seen are quite old and the manuals were missing so we replaced them for very little money. Our techs are in the hundred dollar per hour for onsite work, so futzing with old undocumented equipment must be weighed against replacement costs.

Why must the Netopia stick in this brew?

Why not call Netopia?

Bob

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What's not said.
Jul 30, 2004 12:28AM PDT

Your new Verizon connection might be DSL. If so, that requires a PPPoE login by the router. Old Netopia routers may not have such a feature which is why it's likely to be the wrong hardware for this job.

I may be wrong, but it just dawned on me how much of Verizon is connected and how old hardware may just become a casulty item.

At least the solution is cheap and you can Ebay off the old Netopia.

Bob