My brother bough a wireless G router awhile back and for some reason it wasn't working right so his buddy jerry rigged it to where he pluged the internet into the #4 slot and it would work throughout the other slots. Now it's just barely working it skips lags and does all types of weird stuff. Any idea's or thoughts?
There's your problem.NeXuS4909 wrote:
Linksys
Without updating your firmware, or something similar, I can't see what else is your problem could be.
Your internet company may be performing maintenance, as mine is now, causing me to shit out randomly.
If you can, try to buy a nice 802.11 N router. D-Link, or something similar. Most people who bitch and complain about wireless being shitty, have shitty routers them self.
Hmm, oddly enough, my techie friend claims that D-Link is crap and Linksys is good.
Either way, pull a hard reset, Hold the reset button for 30 seconds, Unplug it, keep holding for 30, plug it in, hold for 30.
Then go to 192.168.1.1
If it shows a blankish page with an update prompt, unplug/replug the router.
Either way, pull a hard reset, Hold the reset button for 30 seconds, Unplug it, keep holding for 30, plug it in, hold for 30.
Then go to 192.168.1.1
If it shows a blankish page with an update prompt, unplug/replug the router.
Should i plug the ethernet cables in their correct places to or keep it how it was?
Yea i have a d-link and it's complete shit. I like my old $30 netgear the most.
Yea i have a d-link and it's complete shit. I like my old $30 netgear the most.
Last edited by NeXuS4909 (2008-09-20 20:02:04)
Plug teh correct way, Modem to WAN, Computers to LAN
With default firmwares, is you plug the modem into a LAN port, they compete to hand out IP's,
The Modem says "HERE, YOUR IP IS 192.168.1.105"
Then the Modem goes
"FUCK NO, YOUR ISP TELLS ME TO USE 70.79.5.224"
In the end you have an argument that goes nowhere, if you're lucky then somehow somewhere something goes "wrong" and the router accepts the ip from the modem.
If it's all plugged in properly, it acts like a tree,
The Modem gives an IP to the router, then the router divides it into it's own internal IP's.
With default firmwares, is you plug the modem into a LAN port, they compete to hand out IP's,
The Modem says "HERE, YOUR IP IS 192.168.1.105"
Then the Modem goes
"FUCK NO, YOUR ISP TELLS ME TO USE 70.79.5.224"
In the end you have an argument that goes nowhere, if you're lucky then somehow somewhere something goes "wrong" and the router accepts the ip from the modem.
If it's all plugged in properly, it acts like a tree,
The Modem gives an IP to the router, then the router divides it into it's own internal IP's.
Assuming it's a WRT54G series -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G#Thi … e_projects
Donkey has the right idea, sort of. The modem gets it's IP from the ISP, and no where else. The router chooses it's own IP based on it's configuration. From there, the router will assign an IP to a computer as it sends data through the router, it doesn't automatically assign as IP to a computer just because there's a wire there.
The wireless router you've got set up has the cable from the modem to one of the switch ports, the group of 4 or so on the back, not the internet port. Well then, if there is a DHCP server running on the router, which there is, then the router wants to give the modem an IP. I think, at least, though I don't know if that's causing your problem.
Either way, hard reset as said before. For wiring, go from the modem to the internet port on the router, then your computers on the switch ports or try to connect wirelessly.
There's also no reason to be fiddling with the router firmware yet, why did you suggest that GGFORCE?
The wireless router you've got set up has the cable from the modem to one of the switch ports, the group of 4 or so on the back, not the internet port. Well then, if there is a DHCP server running on the router, which there is, then the router wants to give the modem an IP. I think, at least, though I don't know if that's causing your problem.
Either way, hard reset as said before. For wiring, go from the modem to the internet port on the router, then your computers on the switch ports or try to connect wirelessly.
There's also no reason to be fiddling with the router firmware yet, why did you suggest that GGFORCE?
Last edited by Defiance (2008-09-20 23:23:03)
I have the linksys wcg200 and for the longest time it kept restarting when ever I hooked on wireless. I reset the damn thing about 20 times went in and adjusted the settings internally.