Home Network Set up

[anksta]

Arite, just movin to a new student house and even though I;m usin the same equipment I was last year and Virgin Media again, I cant seem to get my Buffalo Air Station to work, the internet is on and working fine (using it now) but when I plug the router in I cant get on the internet even when its wired in.

The set up page asks for IP, subnet mask, Default Gateway, primary and secondary DNS server addresses and WAN Mac Address.

Now I got pretty much all these numbers from pluggin an ethernet cable straight to the modem and gettin IPv4 Address, DNS and default gateway from there, but when I put these numebers in it still doesnt do anythin. I'm completely stuck now I dont have a clue what to do, I swear I didnt even have to do this last year and it worked fine, never had a problem in 12 months.

Any suggestions? Appreciate any help, cheers.

 

[tolien]

If it works with a machine connected directly to it, it's probably still looking for that machine's network card's MAC address.

To reset it, disconnect router, switch modem off, switch modem on, wait for lights to settle, connect router. The router should be set to get an IP/subnet mask et al automatically from the modem.

Though all that's in the sticky.

 

[King Arthur]

The set up page asks for IP, subnet mask, Default Gateway, primary and secondary DNS server addresses and WAN Mac Address.

The ip address you should already have, subnet shoudl be 255.255.255.0, feault gateway is the ipaddres of the modem, primary and secondary dns shoudl be the ones of your ISP or use 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 (open dns ones) the wan address shoudl be auto assigned, as for its mac address thats crap (unless it means that of your modem)

Phil

 

[Duke]

As tolien said, just need to reboot the modem between switching devices/MAC addresses.