Wireless Network

[jimsters316]

Hi All

I am trying to setup a wireless network in my home. I got a philips wireless base station and have a bradband modem from ISP.

I guess I tell you what I have fone so far:

I have followed all the connection details as instructed and all lights are on as they should be. The fun starts when I try to put in all the information. The philips sytem is looking for the follow details to install on my pc.

IP ADDRESS
SUBNET MASK
GATEWAY IP ADDRESS
DNS IP ADDRESS
DNS 2 IP ADDRESS

I also have the following information from my ISP:

local WAN IP Address
DNS IP Address
DNS 2 IP Address
Remote Gateway Address
Peer Address
Net Mask
IP Address
Gateway Address

When i try to input the information the I am getting errors such as the gateway address is missing number or the gateway address must be in the same as subnet mask. I think my problem lies with the Gateway address requested by the philips unit. Could this be any of the others address' given by my ISP?

Apologises if you confused anyone with the info provided, i only a little bit technical and this has been melting my head all weekend.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Jim

[Zero Tolerance]

The base station needs the gateway of what its connected to. In other words the gateway of the ISP modem.

Also make sure that you dont have 2 routers. Meaning that either the ISP device can be a router OR your basestation can be a router. Not both without some tweaking of both router configs with NAT.

So for an example lets say that your modem is just that. A modem without any DHCP server or anything.

Your "base station" as you call it is a wireless router running your DHCP server.

Your config would be something like this...

ISP modem

IP addy 192.168.100.1
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0

wireless base station (router)
IP addy 192.168.1.1
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway 192.168.100.1 (ip of the modem)

Then your wireless clients (aka pc or laptop or whatever) would get thier IPs from the DHCP server running on the router.

So if you looked at IP information on a client it should look something like this

client
IP address 192.168.1.100
subnet mask 255.255.255.0
default gateway 192.168.1.1
dns1 "whatever is given to the router by isp modem"
dns2 "whatever is given to the router by isp modem"

Note. If you do not have a router...none of this will mean anything because it simply will not work without a router.

goodluck!