Basic Internet/Router Setup

Hi all,

Today I got a new router and am having some problems setting it up. The automatic configuration utility that came with the router did not work properly so I am having to manually configure it myself. When I got it, I immediately installed DD-WRT on it and tried messing around with the ip address, etc. but it will not pull up any web pages or ping any sites. The two screens below show the current router configuration. Right now the router is directly connected to the internet and my laptop is directly connected to the router via ethernet cable. If anything looks amiss, or have any suggestions in general, please let me know.

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The WAN ip is not a public ip address which is why you're not pulling up any sites. Make sure you are plugging your modem into the WAN port on the router. You shouldn't have to configure anything for basic functionality.

 

I just checked and it is plugged into the right port. I even set the router back to factory default settings and it still does not work. Can I change any settings to resolve the problem you just described?

 

In the first instance, in the router>Basic Set up, at the bottom under the heading Network Address Server Settings try adding your ISPs DNS servers. Yours look like they are labeled Static DNS1 and Static DNS2.

 

I got this advice from another forum and it worked immediately.

Thanks for the responses.

 

This is interesting.......if your new router is acquiring an address on the WAN side of 192.168.1.7 then you must be plugged into another router and not simply a modem. You could have probably turned off DHCP in the new router and plugged the new router into the "modem" using any other port other than the WAN port and it would have worked because the new "router" would then be working like a switch. Your current setup may give you problems down the road if you need to do port forwarding for example.