Re: Turn router into WAP

Run IPCONFIG /ALL to verify how the computer is getting configured, and
post the results here.

p.s. Out of curiosity, why are you insisting on using a different
netblock?

p.p.s. Please don't switch posting styles (top vs bottom) in mid-thread
-- it's confusing, and considered a bit rude. Thanks.

On 20 Jul 2006 16:15:36 -0700, "ihatecrappymail@yahoo.com"
<ihatecrappymail@yahoo.com> wrote in
<1153437336.397258.55410@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups. com>:

>Yes, I know that. Both the router and the computer trying to connect
>are on the same subnet (255.255.255.0). I left the router as a dhcp
>server and told it to use the ranges of 10.1.1.2-10.1.1.20.
>
>Any other ideas?
>
>John Navas wrote:
>> On 20 Jul 2006 15:29:43 -0700, "ihatecrappymail@yahoo.com"
>> <ihatecrappymail@yahoo.com> wrote in
>> <1153434583.694961.149130@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups. com>:
>>
>> >Thanks for the replies. After some more experimenting it seems that I
>> >can change the routers IP to anything that is in the 192.168.1.1 -
>> >192.168.1.254 range and still be able to connect to it. I want it to be
>> >10.1.1.1 though and when I change it to that, that is when I can no
>> >longer connect to the router. Thoughts?
>>
>> The device trying to connect to the router needs to be on the same
>> subnet in terms of IP address and subnet mask. For a router at
>> 10.1.1.1, you could manually configure the computer to (say) IP
>> 10.1.1.100 and subnet mask 255.0.0.0

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