After some more investigation on why Laura could connect with the router and why I couldn't, I've found some very weird behaviour. Both computers are set up for DHCP. When using 2 of the ports, the computers get the network info from rogers and work fine. But only 1 computer can access the net at a time. I can't even see the router when this happens. The other 2 ports get their info from the router which doesn't seem to get any info from rogers, so it can't see past the local area network. I'm not sure if that's the final picture, but it's close.
Ryan suggested in my last post to upgrade the firmware which I might do soon. I just want to get my old D-Link back from my dad so that I can us it because I have never had any trouble with it. We'll see what happens. Now at least I can check my sympatico email account... :-|
Are you sure it's a router and not a hub? What's the model number?
ReplyDeleteOn the box it says "Router" with the model number as "BEFSR41 ver. 2". That's the one that I liked to with my post. ;-)
ReplyDeleteHaha, d'oh. :)
ReplyDeleteOK, I forgot to ask this too: what's your configuration? How are you wiring things up?
One thing that used to trip me up was the "cascade/normal" switch on routers/hubs, usually on a specific port.
ReplyDeleteWhen you set it to normal the port acts like a regular port. When you set it to cascade, you can hook another router/hub up to that port (daisy chain) to make your network bigger. If you are cascading from Rogers, that might explain why only one machine can connect.
If you can't connect outside of your local network, it might be a DNS problem. Connect one computer to Rogers and get the IP address of a popular web site like yahoo.com. Then set the network up with the router, trying pinging yahoo.com. If that fails, ping the IP address instead. If the IP address works, you have a DNS problem.
The router had 6 ports total. One called "WAN" which I don't have anything plugged into, one called "Uplink" which I have the modem plugged into, and 4 labled 1 through 4.
ReplyDeleteI've only played around with the 4 ports for the computers. I would figure that the part where you could connect other parts of your LAN would be in the "WAN" port.
I don't understand why the router doesn't seem to be picking up the DHCP requests from my computer and not passing them on. I would have thought that a router would stop all those from going outside. The other thing that I don't understand is why the router isn't getting DHCP info from rogers itself. Strange if you ask me.
I'll try out your idea of pinging the IP and other name. I wasn't able to ping the name (yahoo.com) before, but I didn't know the IP to try that. Either way, I should be getting my router my my dad soon. I just have to pick it up.
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Connect your modem to the port labeled as "WAN".
ReplyDelete&*^%$!&%! Ahhhgg! Stupid RTFM!
ReplyDeleteWith my old router you plugged in the modem into the uplink port... *sigh* I sure feel dumb now.
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