Solwise SA110 setup problem.

Connected it exactly as per book and set the addresses of my network card as
per the book. Try to connect to router using http://192.168.7.1/ as per
book. All that happens is that dial connection box appears on screen. As I
am just trying out before my ADSL line is enabled does the router not work
unless it sees a valid ADSL signal on the ADSL port? Power & PC LED's on and
ADSL flashing on and off. Advanced hair tearing has produced no answer. XP
Pro reports Network card functioning OK. Any constructive comments would be
most welcome. TIA

Should have said I can ping 192.168.7.1 successfully from the C: Prompt so I
assume the Network card and router are at least talking to one another.

"Peter Crosland" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Should have said I can ping 192.168.7.1 successfully from the C: Prompt so
I
> assume the Network card and router are at least talking to one another.
>

Know little about Routers, but maybe you can get some clues here?

http://www.asdlguide.org.uk/hardware...q1/sar_110.asp




James H

"Peter Crosland" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Connected it exactly as per book and set the addresses of my network card
as
> per the book. Try to connect to router using http://192.168.7.1/ as per
> book. All that happens is that dial connection box appears on screen. As I
> am just trying out before my ADSL line is enabled does the router not work
> unless it sees a valid ADSL signal on the ADSL port? Power & PC LED's on
and
> ADSL flashing on and off. Advanced hair tearing has produced no answer. XP
> Pro reports Network card functioning OK. Any constructive comments would
be
> most welcome. TIA
>

Hi,
from internet explorer, in tools->internet options, on the connection
tab, select the option 'Never dial a connection'. Then press the 'Lan
Settings...' button and uncheck all of the options. Now OK out of
everything, shutdown and restart IE, then try again.
Note that this will stop your modem from dialing automatically, so once you
have setup the router, you will want to change things back for your existing
internet connection to work. However, that you can still start the
connection manually if you wish.

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Martin

Thanks for the replies. The solution was infuriatingly simple. The manual
states that to access the router you need to type http://192.168.7.1/ into
your browser but that is wrong. If you type 192.168.7.1/ it works!!!!!!! No
doubt this would be obvious to TCP/IP experts but to a router novice like me
it was not. I wonder what other errors there are in the manual.

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:31:42 +0100, "Peter Crosland"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Thanks for the replies. The solution was infuriatingly simple. The manual
>states that to access the router you need to type http://192.168.7.1/ into
>your browser but that is wrong. If you type 192.168.7.1/ it works!!!!!!! No
>doubt this would be obvious to TCP/IP experts but to a router novice like me
>it was not. I wonder what other errors there are in the manual.
>
Got my SAR 110 last Friday, and I'm using it now. http://192.168.7.1/
works fine for me (using IE under WinXP), although I'd never bothered
with the full URL until just now (not a TCPIP expert - just a lazy IE
user). I couldn't get into the interface at all, though, until I'd
tweaked the LAN settings under Tools (I had a proxy server configured
for what I'm beginning to understand were totally spurious reasons).
Like you, I could ping it but not connect.

The Solwise forum has been pretty useful so far in helping me crack
the various things I've needed to do. Reasonably active, and worth
searching if you have problems - so far I've had answers back to
everything I've asked in pretty short order.

Cheers - Ian

Peter Crosland wrote:
> Thanks for the replies. The solution was infuriatingly simple. The manual
> states that to access the router you need to type http://192.168.7.1/ into
> your browser but that is wrong. If you type 192.168.7.1/ it works!!!!!!! No
> doubt this would be obvious to TCP/IP experts but to a router novice like me

Not really - either should work.... if you don't type http:// then ie
assumes that is what you want anyway.

One gottcha to watch out for - if you are relying on the routers DHCP
server to hand out an IP address to the PC, then you want the router
turned on and connected to the PC *before* you boot the PC. Otherwise
the PC will default to an IP address on a different subnet to the router
- stopping you from talking to it. This can have the effect that nothing
seems to work until you try again at some point in the future (having
rebooted the PC) and all of a sudden it all works and you can't think of
anything you have changed to make that happen! ;-)

(Not a problem if you manually configure the network cards IP address on
your PC though)


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Cheers,

John.

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> One gottcha to watch out for - if you are relying on the routers DHCP
> server to hand out an IP address to the PC, then you want the router
> turned on and connected to the PC *before* you boot the PC. Otherwise
> the PC will default to an IP address on a different subnet to the router
> - stopping you from talking to it. This can have the effect that nothing
> seems to work until you try again at some point in the future (having
> rebooted the PC) and all of a sudden it all works and you can't think of
> anything you have changed to make that happen! ;-)

Thanks John. I managed to avoid that one!

"John Rumm" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Peter Crosland wrote:
> > Thanks for the replies. The solution was infuriatingly simple. The
manual
> > states that to access the router you need to type http://192.168.7.1/
into
> > your browser but that is wrong. If you type 192.168.7.1/ it works!!!!!!!
No
> > doubt this would be obvious to TCP/IP experts but to a router novice
like me
>
> Not really - either should work.... if you don't type http:// then ie
> assumes that is what you want anyway.
>
> One gottcha to watch out for - if you are relying on the routers DHCP
> server to hand out an IP address to the PC, then you want the router
> turned on and connected to the PC *before* you boot the PC. Otherwise
> the PC will default to an IP address on a different subnet to the router
> - stopping you from talking to it. This can have the effect that nothing
> seems to work until you try again at some point in the future (having
> rebooted the PC) and all of a sudden it all works and you can't think of
> anything you have changed to make that happen! ;-)
>
> (Not a problem if you manually configure the network cards IP address on
> your PC though)
>

What about wacking this router into an existing LAN? My office network
server is 192.168.0.1 and it hands out IP address automatically through
DHCP,
except for the Win98SE PC's, which despite my best efforts, need to be
manually assigned an IP address (bar one of 'em - which I hadnt even noticed
is obtaining it's IP address quite happily automatically - no idea why this
one works
and the rest dont - anyway, I digress...).

If I add this router into our LAN, would it be best to assign it an IP in
our range, say 192.168.0.150? Then, all I'd need to do is point the
client PC's to this address as the default gateway? Please tell me
this sort of thing is nice and simple - I've hard a hard morning here :-)



James H

Peter Crosland wrote:

>> One gottcha to watch out for - if you are relying on the routers DHCP
>> server to hand out an IP address to the PC, then you want the router
>> turned on and connected to the PC *before* you boot the PC. Otherwise
>> the PC will default to an IP address on a different subnet to the router
>> - stopping you from talking to it. This can have the effect that nothing
>> seems to work until you try again at some point in the future (having
>> rebooted the PC) and all of a sudden it all works and you can't think of
>> anything you have changed to make that happen! ;-)
>
> Thanks John. I managed to avoid that one!

If you do happen to boot the PC before the router, just bring
up a DOS box and type "ipconfig/renew"


B

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