Wireless router stopped working

Hello everyone, i recently reformatted my harddrive... everything was working
great, for weeks. Now my wirelss (MS MN-700) base station has stopped
working. I can only get on the internet when i plug directly into the cable
modem. When i try accessing through the wirless base, my ip address is re-set
to 192.168.2.2. I know this is an easily fix but i'm not getting it. Any help
is appreciated, thanks

Kristinmerri

On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 09:25:39 -0800, in alt.internet.wireless ,
"Kristinmerri" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Hello everyone, i recently reformatted my harddrive... everything was working
>great, for weeks. Now my wirelss (MS MN-700) base station has stopped
>working. I can only get on the internet when i plug directly into the cable
>modem. When i try accessing through the wirless base, my ip address is re-set
>to 192.168.2.2.

Why do you think this is incorrect? It sounds a reasonable IP addy for
a router to hand out.

Did you have encryption enabled on the router, or something, and
forgot to re-enable it on the client?
Mark McIntyre
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"Kristinmerri" <(E-Mail Removed)> hath wroth:

>Hello everyone, i recently reformatted my harddrive... everything was working
>great, for weeks. Now my wirelss (MS MN-700) base station has stopped
>working. I can only get on the internet when i plug directly into the cable
>modem. When i try accessing through the wirless base, my ip address is re-set
>to 192.168.2.2. I know this is an easily fix but i'm not getting it. Any help
>is appreciated, thanks

Windows, what do you want to reinstall today?

I'll assume you're using Windoze XP Home with SP2.

The DHCP server in your MN-700 is working. It has an IP address of
192.168.2.1 and has correctly assigned an address of 192.168.2.2 to
your PC. This is normal.

Point your web browser to:
http://192.168.2.1
and you should see the configuration pages for the MN-700. The
WAN(internet) port cable goes to the modem. Your PC goes to either
one of the 4 LAN ports or via wireless. Probably best to do this
initially with a cable instead of via wireless.

Make sure you power cycle (on/off) the modem every time you change
cabling arrangements. The modem stores the MAC address of whatever is
connected to it. This needs to change when switching between the PC
to modem arrangment, and the MN-700 to modem arrangement.

Using your web browser, go to the "status" page and see if you are
getting valid routeable IP addresses from your cable ISP. If not,
turn everything off and try again. Since the MN-700 was working
before you hosed your hard disk, we can safely assume that there have
been no changes in the MN-700. Therefore, I would avoid tinkering
with the settings.

If the status page shows real live routeable IP addresses, then you
should be able to browse the internet normally. If the IP's look
normal, but you can't browse, there's something messed up on your
computer. Without additional clues, I can't offer even a guess. I
would drag in a 2nd computer, to verify that the MN-700 is working.

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