Jenspm
penis
+1,716|6991|St. Andrews / Oslo

Right, as you can see, I am on the internet, connected via my router.

However, my router only works wirelessly, not via ethernet, and I thought I might be able to fix this via the control panel. But when I do an ipconfig /all, the gateway field is blank.


What now?
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Jenspm
penis
+1,716|6991|St. Andrews / Oslo

well I think I found the gateway, 10.0.0.138 which is fucking strange because it's a DLink and it was 192.168.0.1 last time 'round.


Anyways, I am able to ping 10.0.0.138, but not connect to the control panel using that adress.
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FFLink
There is.
+1,380|6950|Devon, England
Reboot the Router to default settings? Should have a sticker on the back with default address and login details, if not, Google.
Freezer7Pro
I don't come here a lot anymore.
+1,447|6456|Winland

That is odd.

You should start with re-setting your router to the default settings and configuring it all over again.
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Jenspm
penis
+1,716|6991|St. Andrews / Oslo

Gah, I decided to pay a guy £50 to fix it all (XBox as well) via telephone and remote admin.

cba to do this shit myself, I fucking hate internets.
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Defiance
Member
+438|6930

Jenspm wrote:

Gah, I decided to pay a guy £50 to fix it all (XBox as well) via telephone and remote admin.

cba to do this shit myself, I fucking hate internets.
. . . seriously?
Jenspm
penis
+1,716|6991|St. Andrews / Oslo

Defiance wrote:

Jenspm wrote:

Gah, I decided to pay a guy £50 to fix it all (XBox as well) via telephone and remote admin.

cba to do this shit myself, I fucking hate internets.
. . . seriously?
ya, it all works now.

Fuckin' hell the amount of time I've spent on this shit, should've thought of it earlier.
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Finray
Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro
+2,629|6047|Catherine Black

Defiance wrote:

Jenspm wrote:

Gah, I decided to pay a guy £50 to fix it all (XBox as well) via telephone and remote admin.

cba to do this shit myself, I fucking hate internets.
. . . seriously?
Jenspm pisses money. It's nothing for him to call in someone.
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steelie34
pub hero!
+603|6640|the land of bourbon

Jenspm wrote:

Defiance wrote:

Jenspm wrote:

Gah, I decided to pay a guy £50 to fix it all (XBox as well) via telephone and remote admin.

cba to do this shit myself, I fucking hate internets.
. . . seriously?
ya, it all works now.

Fuckin' hell the amount of time I've spent on this shit, should've thought of it earlier.
do you know what they did to fix it? (so you can save money in the future)
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Jenspm
penis
+1,716|6991|St. Andrews / Oslo

steelie34 wrote:

Jenspm wrote:

Defiance wrote:


. . . seriously?
ya, it all works now.

Fuckin' hell the amount of time I've spent on this shit, should've thought of it earlier.
do you know what they did to fix it? (so you can save money in the future)
Oh he did a ton of stuff. But it works now, so I hope it'll be ok.

It involved resetting everything again, fixing the ports again, he did some mac address stuff.. I dunno.

@Finray: I'd do it myself if I knew how. But I don't and this is cheaper than getting an internet repair guy to come fix it.
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Defiance
Member
+438|6930

Jenspm wrote:

steelie34 wrote:

Jenspm wrote:


ya, it all works now.

Fuckin' hell the amount of time I've spent on this shit, should've thought of it earlier.
do you know what they did to fix it? (so you can save money in the future)
Oh he did a ton of stuff. But it works now, so I hope it'll be ok.

It involved resetting everything again, fixing the ports again, he did some mac address stuff.. I dunno.

@Finray: I'd do it myself if I knew how. But I don't and this is cheaper than getting an internet repair guy to come fix it.
Maybe the xbox problem was more complicated and required some fixings for it, but whatever was going on with the gateway was not a major problem. On XP, occasionally, the first ipconfig shown after a new DHCP acquisition won't show the default gateway. Not sure why. But, because you have a working internet connection, your computer obviously has the gateway. Another place to look in ipconfig /all would have been the dhcp server address.

I'm more curious about why it went to a 10.X address (where did you find that address, by the way?). Perhaps your ISP is double NATing, which would cause problems with any kind of port forwarding.
Bertster7
Confused Pothead
+1,101|6840|SE London

It's not uncommon for routers to use one subnet for wireless and one for wired. You see it all the time.

192.168.x.x for wired, 10.0.x.x for wireless.

It's a bit bent and awkward and something you usually want to change - but it's certainly common.
Jenspm
penis
+1,716|6991|St. Andrews / Oslo

Defiance wrote:

Jenspm wrote:

steelie34 wrote:


do you know what they did to fix it? (so you can save money in the future)
Oh he did a ton of stuff. But it works now, so I hope it'll be ok.

It involved resetting everything again, fixing the ports again, he did some mac address stuff.. I dunno.

@Finray: I'd do it myself if I knew how. But I don't and this is cheaper than getting an internet repair guy to come fix it.
Maybe the xbox problem was more complicated and required some fixings for it, but whatever was going on with the gateway was not a major problem. On XP, occasionally, the first ipconfig shown after a new DHCP acquisition won't show the default gateway. Not sure why. But, because you have a working internet connection, your computer obviously has the gateway. Another place to look in ipconfig /all would have been the dhcp server address.

I'm more curious about why it went to a 10.X address (where did you find that address, by the way?). Perhaps your ISP is double NATing, which would cause problems with any kind of port forwarding.
found it via a laptop that was wired to the router. ipconfig /all.

Strange thing is, my modem is a crappy modem/router combo, and the IP address I got (10.0.0.138), was actually the IP address of the modem/router, not the DLink. And the modem works wired only, the router wireless only, sooo, problem kinda solved really. Probably a predictable thing, I don't know much about gateways...

In the end, ports forwarded via some over-complicated method on the modem, router only used wirelessly by PCs.
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