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cheenis · 10-08-2011, 8:47 AM

Sorry, Noob here.

I've just been given a more advanced router than the one I previously had, so I unplugged the old one and plugged in the new one and it all worked without me having to do anything. Fantastic I thought.... but a few hours in and one of my machines has decided to stop playing ball. It no longer appears in my network list despite being on and it won't connect to the internet, yet my squeezebox still connects as does my other PC and NAS.

I'm trying to diagnose the problem, but I can't get to the router admin page either. My previous router (Siemens Gigagset SE587) was on 192.168.1.1, the other router I have is a D-Link DSL-G604T and I've tried the above IP address, along with 0.1. and 1.0 endings with no success. The first of the three I tried (the old router admin page appears broken in that it half displays, but the graphics parts of the page don't work as if there are broken links on the page.

Questions:
My thoughts have also drifted to how the new router knows my internet account and passwords. If one of my PCs had been on at the time I connected it I would guess all that info is held on there, but since they weren't and the squeeze box worked straight away I was surprised. The person that gave me the router uses the same ISP as me, could it be that I am now on their account? Sorry I sure this is a stupid question!

How can I work out how to get to my router admin page? I've done an ipconfig and it gives the default gateway as 192.168.1.1, I've pinged the three addresses stated above and only the 1.1. address got a response and curiously the 1.0 one came back with 'reply from 192.168.1.2: destination unreachable' - I don't understand why it changed the final number automatically.

Do I need to run some sort of set up disk to correct the internet connection, if so any ideas where I would get one from?

Any ideas how I diagnose why the other PC is not connecting.. I've run all the windows diagnostics and they haven't come up with anything. Naturally I will keep fiddling in the mean time and see if I can solve it. Any progress I will re-post

All my PCs are running Win 7 64 bit.

Thanks for your help.

10-08-2011, 8:47 AM	#1
cheenis Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Thanks: Gave 35, Got 1 Posts: 79	New router switch over problems Sorry, Noob here. I've just been given a more advanced router than the one I previously had, so I unplugged the old one and plugged in the new one and it all worked without me having to do anything. Fantastic I thought.... but a few hours in and one of my machines has decided to stop playing ball. It no longer appears in my network list despite being on and it won't connect to the internet, yet my squeezebox still connects as does my other PC and NAS. I'm trying to diagnose the problem, but I can't get to the router admin page either. My previous router (Siemens Gigagset SE587) was on 192.168.1.1, the other router I have is a D-Link DSL-G604T and I've tried the above IP address, along with 0.1. and 1.0 endings with no success. The first of the three I tried (the old router admin page appears broken in that it half displays, but the graphics parts of the page don't work as if there are broken links on the page. Questions: My thoughts have also drifted to how the new router knows my internet account and passwords. If one of my PCs had been on at the time I connected it I would guess all that info is held on there, but since they weren't and the squeeze box worked straight away I was surprised. The person that gave me the router uses the same ISP as me, could it be that I am now on their account? Sorry I sure this is a stupid question! How can I work out how to get to my router admin page? I've done an ipconfig and it gives the default gateway as 192.168.1.1, I've pinged the three addresses stated above and only the 1.1. address got a response and curiously the 1.0 one came back with 'reply from 192.168.1.2: destination unreachable' - I don't understand why it changed the final number automatically. Do I need to run some sort of set up disk to correct the internet connection, if so any ideas where I would get one from? Any ideas how I diagnose why the other PC is not connecting.. I've run all the windows diagnostics and they haven't come up with anything. Naturally I will keep fiddling in the mean time and see if I can solve it. Any progress I will re-post All my PCs are running Win 7 64 bit. Thanks for your help.
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