ireland, clearwire problems

Landlord fixed us up with a Clearwire broadband device (wireless
device that connects to the ISP) and a netgear ADSL router. The
Clearwire router works perfectly if I plug in directly via ethernet
connection. However, when I hook the clearwire up to the netgear
DG834PN wap I get a stable connection on a 85.134.x.x IP; shortly
after, maybe a minute or two, the IP changes to 192.168.0.2 and fails
to route traffic to the internet.

I can still connect to the netgear interface, but with the 192 address
I can't get to yahoo/google.

Any idea why my IP changes from public to private after two mintutes
and blocks web access to all our laptops? Clearwire won't support us,
they say since the broadband does in fact work that they can't support
a third party device like the netgear.

The landlord refuses to replace the netgear wap because according to
him he has the same setup and home and it works fine. (I thought that
maybe since it's an adsl router that that was causing the problem

ideas?

lrbtav wrote:

> Landlord fixed us up with a Clearwire broadband device (wireless
> device that connects to the ISP) and a netgear ADSL router. The
> Clearwire router works perfectly if I plug in directly via ethernet
> connection. However, when I hook the clearwire up to the netgear
> DG834PN wap I get a stable connection on a 85.134.x.x IP; shortly
> after, maybe a minute or two, the IP changes to 192.168.0.2 and fails
> to route traffic to the internet.
>
> I can still connect to the netgear interface, but with the 192 address
> I can't get to yahoo/google.

Sounds like the DNS IPs are not setup right after you are assigned a private
IP. Try pinging google's IP rather than google.ca. This is the IP I get
when I ping google.ca 66.102.7.104 (I'm in Canada, so this might not be the
best IP for you?)

> Any idea why my IP changes from public to private after two mintutes
> and blocks web access to all our laptops? Clearwire won't support us,
> they say since the broadband does in fact work that they can't support
> a third party device like the netgear.

Don't you want a private address if you are connecting the the router? The
router should allow many computers to access the Internet without assigning
each a public IP. The only public IP should be given to the router.

> The landlord refuses to replace the netgear wap because according to
> him he has the same setup and home and it works fine. (I thought that
> maybe since it's an adsl router that that was causing the problem
> ideas?

After you get a private IP, check your DNS server IP. What OS are you using?
AFAIK, using the Private IP of your router as the primary DNS server should
work.


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Chris