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General Maximus · 30-12-2012, 08:41

169.254 addresses are a special range of addresses which operating systems assign themselves for the sake of having an address when they are unable to retrieve one via dhcp. The confusing thing is why it wont get one from your router but it will get one from VM when you connect it to the vmng300. Have you tried going to 192.168.1.1 in your browser to see if you can access the router interface? On the status page it will tell you if the router has been able to get an ip address from VM? The two are independant of one another but I am curious to know if the router is ok getting an outside connection and it is just having a problem with dhcp.

Either way, you want to be checking your network settings on your pc. I am not too sure where it is on windows 7 but you want to be doing something like control panel, network and sharing centre, manage network connection, right click your adapter and click properties, left click ipv4 so it is selected and click on properties. Make sure the options for ip address and dns server and selected to be obtained automatically.

30-12-2012, 08:41	#19
General Maximus Ran Away Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Lincoln Services: phone + 1gbit BB + SkyQ Posts: 11,021	Re: Internet connection from modem only can anyone help!! 169.254 addresses are a special range of addresses which operating systems assign themselves for the sake of having an address when they are unable to retrieve one via dhcp. The confusing thing is why it wont get one from your router but it will get one from VM when you connect it to the vmng300. Have you tried going to 192.168.1.1 in your browser to see if you can access the router interface? On the status page it will tell you if the router has been able to get an ip address from VM? The two are independant of one another but I am curious to know if the router is ok getting an outside connection and it is just having a problem with dhcp. Either way, you want to be checking your network settings on your pc. I am not too sure where it is on windows 7 but you want to be doing something like control panel, network and sharing centre, manage network connection, right click your adapter and click properties, left click ipv4 so it is selected and click on properties. Make sure the options for ip address and dns server and selected to be obtained automatically.