gtd068a wrote:
> Danny,
> Thanks for your help. Before, I got a chance to act on your
> recommendations, Bellsouth technition came to the house and got every
> thing working (i was not present when he came so i dont know what he
> did) . Nothing has gone down in last 20 hours now. Let me hope that it
> all continues to work. I sincerely appreciate your time and effort to
> address my problem.
> Thanks.
>
> Danny Kile wrote:
>> gtd068a wrote:
>>> Thanks for your help Danny. I will try this when I get home tonight.
>>> I do not have any security turned on on the router.
>>> When I say, that I can not surf, what i mean is that there is no
>>> internet connection at all. The desktop which is connected to the
>>> wireless router via ethernet cable loses its connection also. the
>>> laptop finds the wireless router when i "Search for available networks"
>>> with full strength but when i select "connect", the connection is
>>> never established and i eventually get "can not connect" message on the
>>> laptop.
>>> hopefully, this clarifies the problem.
>>> again, thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Well, I was thinking that this was a wireless laptop problem however it
>> is more than that, if you can not connect with the Desktop PC either.
>> Some more Info. What is the model of the Bellsouth modem, the Netgear
>> route is what model. The modem is it setup as PPPOE or bridged? Only one
>> unit should be doing the PPPOE, if the modem is Bridged then the router
>> should be PPPOE, and if the modem is PPPOE then the router should not be.
>>
>> I prefer something like this:
>>
>> Modem set for PPPOE, the LAN port would most likely be 192.168.1.254
>> that is what Bellsouth like to use. Then I would set the WAN port of the
>> router to a static address of 192.168.1.1, the LAN port of the router to
>> 192.168.2.1 and the DHCP of the router to pass out IP addresses in the
>> range of 192.168.2.100 for 50 addresses making the address range
>> 192.168.2.100 through 192.168.149.
>>
>>
>> We really need to do some ping test when this goes down to see where
>> this is dieing. Working with the Desktop so that we do not have to deal
>> with wireless issues at this time. Lets get this working constantly
>> first then deal with wireless.
>>
>> When it goes down try ping the IP address of the LAN port of the router,
>> if that work try the WAN port of the router, working you way up stream.
>> If that work next try the LAN port of the modem and if that work then
>> try pinging bellsouth.net. Lets find out where it quits.
>>
>> Danny,
>

Well, all is well that end well.

Your quite welcome!

Danny,