Re: Can't access router config.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed) says...
> Hi, I recently removed my Belkin F5D7630uk4A router from my home
> network where Plusnet had been supplying the WLAN connection.
> This was exchanged for a Huawei HG520b with TalkTalk supplying the
> WLAN connection. It works fine.
>
> I want to use my currently isolated 4 port Belkin router as a switch,
> so I connected it to my laptop with a patch cable (tried a variety)
> and entered http://192.168.2.1 into the browser. Nothing came up.
> Did a hard reset to factory default of router, still nothing.
> Can anyone please tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Assumiong the router is dishing out IP addresses and your network
connection reports that it is connected? Run ipconfig /all from a
command prompt and look for "default gateway" address. This is the IP of
the router.
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Jon

Geoff Mills wrote:
> Thanks all for your help with this. 20 years fiddling with computers
> and still the consequences of a minor change will have me floundering.
> :-)
>
> I'd reset the computer's static LAN IPs to suit the default range of
> the new router, which caused the old router to become inaccessible.
> Temporarily changing a computer to "Obtain an IP address
> automatically" allowed me to turn off wireless, dhcp, firewall and
> upnp in the router config. This, I hope will clear any obstacles to
> using the old router as a switch.

I'd suggest changing it to an IP in the same range as your new router,
so you can easily do whatever you need to with it.

Alex

On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:39:13 +0000, Geoff Mills wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:04:14 +0000, Alex Fraser <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>>I'd suggest changing it to an IP in the same range as your new router, so
>>you can easily do whatever you need to with it.

> Thanks, I didn't realise that as a switch it would need it's own static IP
> address, as one of the workstations would.

It doesn't. Alex is suggesting that if you give it an address which is
valid on your new network it will be easier to access its admin interface
should you ever need to.

> Would the static IP address of the router in switch mode, replace the
> original Gateway IP address of the router before it became a switch?

If I understand you correctly, yes. It replaces the LAN side address. It
no longer has a WAN address as this interface is not connected.

Regards, Ian

Geoff Mills wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:30:14 +0000, Ian Northeast
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:39:13 +0000, Geoff Mills wrote:
>>> On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:04:14 +0000, Alex Fraser <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>>> I'd suggest changing it to an IP in the same range as your new router, so
>>>> you can easily do whatever you need to with it.
>>> Thanks, I didn't realise that as a switch it would need it's own static IP
>>> address, as one of the workstations would.
>> It doesn't. Alex is suggesting that if you give it an address which is
>> valid on your new network it will be easier to access its admin interface
>> should you ever need to.
>
> Thanks, that's made things much clearer. I've been moved from a state
> of bafflement to basic functionality and then on to adding refinements
> by the advice on this thread.

Sorry I wasn't clear before .

> Would it be possible to restart the wireless features of this
> "switch" on a different channel to that used by the current
> router/modem and access the LAN and Internet by this alternative WiFi
> route from those workstations with wireless capability?

This is exactly the sort of thing I had in mind - the potential to use
the WiFi on the old router as a means to improve wireless coverage.
Assuming you use WPA/WPA2 PSK, setting the same SSID and network key on
each should allow "roaming" between them.

Alex

On 29/11/2009 in message <(E-Mail Removed)>
Geoff Mills wrote:

>Would it be possible to use either method?
>That is, duplicated or different settings?

I have 2 WAPs here in a building with poorly educated walls (i.e. thick).

I use the same channel and WPA key on each WAP but different SSIDs, that
way I can pick up whichever WAP is giving the best signal in any
particular room.

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