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Irish Broadband...Router Help

  • 27-08-2004 11:30pm
    #1
    boo4842
    Closed Accounts Posts: 134 ✭✭


    I tried searching, but couldn't find anything.

    I have Irish Broadband and a static Ip and want to simply split the connection between 2 computers. I have my main computer set up with the IP details I got from the ISP, but I got a small computer for my gf to surf the net, hopefully from the same connection.

    I got a router out of work, that didn't seem to work, so I bought a brand new one, and I still can't get it to work. My guess is that it has to do with the STATIC 62.bla.bla addres which I can't seem to assign to the router. I can set up automatic addres with a 192.bla.bla, but then I can't connect to the internet. With the new router it seems I can get it to assign a new IP addres but my ISP assigned me with a static one, so it shouldn't change.

    I'm guessing that somehow, I have to assign the router my static IP address and get it to assign the internal IP's. I have no idea how to do this... I'm not an IT pro, just did a lot of google searching to no avail... any help??


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  • #2
    Thordon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 307 ✭✭Thordon


    This thread should probably be in the broadband forum. Ill have a go at answering it anyway.

    The simplest way to assign IP addresses is statically, since you only have 2 PC's, DHCP (obtain an IP address automatically) is not really needed.

    The router I have is set up with any valid IP address, 192.168.0.1 for example, then all the PC's in the house have unique IP addresses between 192.168.0.2 to 192.168.254, the subnet mask for this particular network address is 255.255.255.0, set that where applicable (on PCs and router), the default gateway should be the routers IP (192.168.0.1) on both PCs. If youre still not getting internet access, set the DNS server to the routers IP too.

    We dont have a static IP, but as far as I know, external WAN IP's are sorted out by the ISP, Im not sure if you need to do anything special for static IP's.

    I assume your router is an ethernet one, if that is the case, make sure you are using the right cable/port; if your hub (or switch) has a special crossover port, connect to the router on that port using a normal network cable (straight-through/patch), if it dosent, you need a crossover ethernet cable.

    Theres lots of weird settings with routers that could be causing your problems, I had trouble getting mine configured properly too.


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