Router + WAP networking help?

isellrice · 01-10-2007, 22:46

Hello everyone, i'm really tearing my hair out over this so hopefully someone can help me!

I got my virgin media cable a couple of days ago but haven't been able to set it up to work over wireless. I have the standard virgin cable modem, which i have plugged in to my router (Linksys BEFVP41). This router is then plugged into an ADSL wireless router (Actiontec/Qwest GT701-WG) which i'm just using as a wap.

The linksys router (which i have set to 192.168.1.1) is set up to detect the modem through DHCP, and the "DHCP server" setting has been turned on. When i plug a cable in to the router and set it to detect ip settings, i can surf the internet fine, it assigns me an 82.x.x.x ip address.

The wireless router (which i have set to 192.168.1.2) has the dsl and dhcp turned off. When i connect to this wireless network on any of my pcs it just assigns me a 192.168.1.x ip address and i am unable to surf. I can log in to the router and the wireless router through this connection though, so it definitely can see the router + wap.

Can anyone help with this? I don't want to have to shell out for a wireless cable modem :-(

MovedGoalPosts · 01-10-2007, 23:05

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All seems a tad complex to me. I'd be so tempted to ebay both routers and get a dedicated one for the job. In the long term you save on electricity, if nothing else

You might want to try manually inputting IP details on the wireless PC(s)? I'd try the Linksys router's IP as a gateway details. On the other hand I could be well wrong.

OldGeezer · 02-10-2007, 08:09

Make sure the wireless router is connected by one of its LAN ports (not the WAN port) to the Linksys.
Also make sure that the IP address you have assigned it is not in the range given out by the DHCP server on the Linksys.

I have a similar setup but with different brands to yours.

One potential problem is that the wireless router isn't forwarding DHCP requests properly. You could try setting fixed IP addresses on the client machines (I didn't need to with my setup).

Dai · 02-10-2007, 09:05

"The linksys router (which i have set to 192.168.1.1) is set up to detect the modem through DHCP, and the "DHCP server" setting has been turned on. When i plug a cable in to the router and set it to detect ip settings, i can surf the internet fine, it assigns me an 82.x.x.x ip address."

Now unless I am misunderstanding what you mean, this is very strange indeed.
Your PC behind the router should be given a local IP by the DHCP server.
If you do ipconfig on that connected machine is that the IP that is shown?
What is shown as default gateway?

isellrice · 02-10-2007, 18:54

Thanks to all those who replied - my cable router decided to stop working (no power getting to it at all) so i'll go out tomorrow and get myself a nice wireless cable router

Thanks again!

Dai · 02-10-2007, 23:15

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Originally Posted by isellrice

Thanks to all those who replied - my cable router decided to stop working (no power getting to it at all) so i'll go out tomorrow and get myself a nice wireless cable router

Thanks again!

Good call I think..

but before you bin the old router check there's output from the power brick. Sometimes it's just them that die.