no default gateway

[jamesbrown]

Dear All,

 

As many of you know, most networking devices (computers, network storage, routers etc etc) have default gateways that you can type in to any browser (on a pc connected to that network) and you can acess the operating system of whatever device on the network it is you with to configure.

 

Well i have recently purchaised a Edimax Wireless range extender, and i currently have it plugged into my LAN, to make a remote part of my house wireless.

 

This works fine in a plug and play way, however the default gateway ip address which is stated in the manual to acess the settings of the device does not work when i tpye it into the web browser. I have tried plugging it directly into my pc, and tried again with no effect.

 

I have even run the command 'iponfig' in the command prompt whilst directly connected to the device and i get absolutly nothing for the default gateway, which would explain why nothing happens when i try to type the address given to me by the company into my web browser.

 

Is it possible to assign a gateway to the device, but how if i can't acess the settings?

Is the default gateway something that can't be added by me, but should have been by the company, so i need to set it back??

 

Please give me your thoughts on this issue.

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What they don't tell you is that you have to change your PC IP address to match the extender address.

 

So, say your normal router gateway IP is 192.168.1.1 (could be other like x.x..0.1 or x.x.2.1), your router DHCP will give out IP addresses to connected devices in the same range, eg 192.168.1.2 etc.

 

The wireless extenders are normally is a range 172.168.1.x or something similar. Your computer plugged into the LAN will not be in the same IP range and so cannot see the extender.

 

If you plug the PC direct to extender it won't work because extenders are dumb, they don't give out IP's to connected devices so your PC will default to a Microsoft one, which is different again.

 

So, the answer is to connect PC direct to extender, and manually set the PC IP address to one in the extenders range, say 172.168.1.2, subnet mask 255.255.255.0.

 

You should be able to have a chat to it now and set it up as per instructions.

 

Once you are done, don't forget to set your PC back to auto IP