[jstafford]

I just bought a linksys broadband wireless router and I have followed the easy setup guide but I cannot connect to the net via the router. when I connect directly to TSTT's paradyne modem everything is fine. Can any one help. I am a novice and I am clearly over my head. neither the wired connection to the router or the wireless connect is allowing me to connect to the internet. HELP HELP

[admin]

jstafford, on Apr 18 2008, 06:09 PM, said:

I just bought a linksys broadband wireless router and I have followed the easy setup guide but I cannot connect to the net via the router. when I connect directly to TSTT's paradyne modem everything is fine. Can any one help. I am a novice and I am clearly over my head. neither the wired connection to the router or the wireless connect is allowing me to connect to the internet. HELP HELP

Try here: http://tsttproblems....i...ost&p=16104

The problem is usually that the TSTT router and the Linksys router are using the same IP address 192.168.1.1.
Simply change the Linksys router LAN IP address to 192.168.2.1.

[jstafford]

I was able to get things to work after I changed the IP. thanks

[halajeet]

jstafford, on Apr 24 2008, 09:18 PM, said:

I was able to get things to work after I changed the IP. thanks

There actually may be an easier way to do this. Most of these wireless routers have a dhcp option under the wan settings. What this means is they will pull an address from a dhcp device such as the dsl router. Once you enable that setting you have nothing else to worry about. It's all automatic after that.

[admin]

halajeet, on Apr 25 2008, 08:10 PM, said:

There actually may be an easier way to do this. Most of these wireless routers have a dhcp option under the wan settings. What this means is they will pull an address from a dhcp device such as the dsl router. Once you enable that setting you have nothing else to worry about. It's all automatic after that.

If I may say ... this is not entirely correct. Both devices (Linksys & Paradyne) have inbuild DHCP servers and both issue IP addresses in the same range (subnet) of 192.168.1.x.
Connecting the Paradyne to the WAN port of the Linksys, the Paradyne will issue the first IP address at 192.168.1.2. Since the LAN interface of the Linksys is also using the 192.168.1.1 address and the DHCP server issues addresses from 192.168.1.100 - 192.168.1.254, there would be a conflict.

Another option is to connect the Paradyne router to one of the LAN ports of the Linksys router, change Linksys LAN address to something different than 192.168.1.1, disable the Linksys DHCP server and only use DHCP from the Paradyne (not my preferred solution as the Paradyne doesn't seem to be reliable (especially as a DNS server)).

[halajeet]

admin, on Apr 26 2008, 12:08 AM, said:

If I may say ... this is not entirely correct. Both devices (Linksys & Paradyne) have inbuild DHCP servers and both issue IP addresses in the same range (subnet) of 192.168.1.x.
Connecting the Paradyne to the WAN port of the Linksys, the Paradyne will issue the first IP address at 192.168.1.2. Since the LAN interface of the Linksys is also using the 192.168.1.1 address and the DHCP server issues addresses from 192.168.1.100 - 192.168.1.254, there would be a conflict.

Another option is to connect the Paradyne router to one of the LAN ports of the Linksys router, change Linksys LAN address to something different than 192.168.1.1, disable the Linksys DHCP server and only use DHCP from the Paradyne (not my preferred solution as the Paradyne doesn't seem to be reliable (especially as a DNS server)).

I think I see where you're coming from. But this is how mine's and several friends' are working right now. Another option is to configure the linksys as a bridge rather than a router.