Router problem...

GoldenFalcon · Post by **GoldenFalcon** » 2004-07-17 05:18pm

As far as I know, this SHOULDN'T be happening.

For some reason, besides my main computer, the router is ignoring both Ethernet and Wireless traffic from everything else. They connect just fine, but the router refuses to assign them an IP.

Why is this?

I'm using a Linksys Wireless-B router.

GoldenFalcon · Post by **GoldenFalcon** » 2004-07-17 05:48pm

Ok...third time this has happened. The router's inexplicably begun reassigning IPs.

Why is it just shutting down and coming back up randomly?

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-07-17 05:54pm

Question 1: How long have you had the router?

Now, have you tried pressing the reset button for a while? (all routers should have one). Don't hold it long enough to clear your settings, but long enough to "reboot" the router, so to speak, and clear up connections and start fresh.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2004-07-17 06:01pm

Check your power adapter's connection with the router. My router would shut off randomly because, due to a bad connection, it had to be positioned in a certain way to stay on.

GoldenFalcon · Post by **GoldenFalcon** » 2004-07-17 06:08pm

Shinova: 3 months probably, it's relatively new. Yeah I've rebooted the router many times, each time it continually ignores the other connections besides this one.

Hamel: sorry, I should've worded it better. I didn't mean the router physically shutting down, but the IP assigning function turning off.

namdoolb · Post by **namdoolb** » 2004-07-17 06:09pm

can't you manualy assign ip's through the router control software?

GoldenFalcon · Post by **GoldenFalcon** » 2004-07-17 06:12pm

namdoolb wrote:can't you manualy assign ip's through the router control software?

I tried disabling the DHCP server, but the router stonewalls me as to how I assign the IPs. I looked all around, but didn't find a page to do it statically.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-07-17 06:25pm

Keep the DHCP server on, but in your computer's network connections settings, there should be a way to make it assign a specific IP to your computer.

Set it to something like 192.168.0.100 or something like that, depending on the IP number your DHCP gives your computer. Your IP might stick then.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-07-17 07:13pm

Or you can set the router to have a DHCP pool of IP addresses that it will assign. Make sure that that's set to something workable.