Router Help - Linksys WRT54GL

[Jim147]

If you haven't already done it hook the DSL modem directly to your computer to make the changes.
Going through another box or two can cause some confusion.

If that doesn't do it you might check with your provider of the box it may have some known issues.

[Tallpine]

My ISP helped me (finally!) to change the DSL router into a straight modem (pass through).  Had to do that to get a VPN to work.

Otherwise, you need two different IP addresses for the DSL router and the Linksys router (they all seem to default to the same thing).

Sometimes, if we get a power blink or something, I have to go to a Command prompt window and type:

ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew

in sequence in order to get everything working again.

[Gewehr98]

Can I come live with you?
 
Really, I don't eat much.

Sure.  You must bring toobz, and BR toys.

The garage is already set up as a graphics design office and vinyl sign shop.

(I've always wanted to pop a deer for the freezer with a 6mm PPC BR rig...)

Regolith, you'll get there with the pass through settings, just be tenacious. 

[Regolith]

Success! 

Don't know why it wouldn't do it last night, but I tried it again today and it worked.


Thanks again for the help, guys. 

[Gewehr98]

Yee-Ha!

Let us know when you're ready to install DD-WRT or Tomato. 

[unisonic12]

Go to the control panel -> performance and maintenance -> administrative tools -> component services.  Click on the "services".  Scroll down to the two RPC listings (remote procedure call (RPC) and remote procedure call (Locator) ) and make sure both are set to automatic and start them if the status is stopped.  I don't have a Linksys router, but I have the WRT54G wireless card in my desktop.  For some reason something turned those RPC things off and it would never connect.  Starting them both and making the setting automatic fixed it for good.

[Tallpine]

Don't know why it wouldn't do it last night, but I tried it again today and it worked.

That sounds like a normal network to me ... 

Did you try dancing around it three times clockwise ? 

[Jim147]

Don't forget to reboot 10 times.
The tenth is the charm sometimes.

[Regolith]

That sounds like a normal network to me ... 

Did you try dancing around it three times clockwise ? 

 



Seems like it might work better some times.

Maybe I ought to sacrifice a goat to the Network Gods...

[CNYCacher]

Worked this time. 


I think my firewall was preventing my computer from accessing it. 

Just had to tell it to allow the connection. 

Facepalm

[Regolith]

Facepalm

Yeah, it's always the stupid stuff that gets ya.

[Regolith]

For those who are interested, here's a picture of my network setup:



The little black one is the modem/router Verizon gave me.  I don't even know why they even bothered to build a router into it, as it only has a single(!) ethernet port.     That's the reason it was connected to a hub.

The blue cable going vertical out of the Lynksys is connected to my brother's computer on the other side of the apartment via a 50 ft. cable.  He has a wireless card, but he left it at our parent's place (they have a wireless network, and we didn't until now).  Good thing I had that 50 ft. cable lying around...

Not quite as neat as Gewehr's, but it'll do. 

[Gewehr98]

That's the same DSL modem my mom has for her broadband service. Hers is plugged into a WRT-54G v5.0, and it's sharing WiFi broadband with her neighbor's house about 300 feet away.

And as far as your setup doing what it's supposed to do, that's all the neater it has to be.

Glad to hear you got it running.