Sending signal to router?

Here is my problem. I just changed internet service providers to a wireless broadband provider (Verizon Jetpack). I was using Century link with a modem and a router (N300 Belkin) which allowed me to connect my VOIP phone service (OBI 100) to the router using a wire with ends like telephone jacks. Now the wireless service will not send a signal to my router so I cannot hook up my telephone service.

Is there any way I can connect the router to my PC so it can get an signal from the PC (HP Pavilion 552w) either with a wire or wirelessly? I have talked to the Verizon people who sold me the wireless system and an adapter for my PC, and I have talked to several people in different store electronic departments but so far no one has an answer.

It seems like there has to be some sort of solution. I mean the signal is there going to the PC and the router could connect to the internet through the modem , so why can't I find a way to connect it to the computer to get a signal? Thank You for listening and for any help.

 

You could try to set the belkin to be a wireless bridge so that you can plug the phone into the belkin and it will connect to the verizon box through the wireless connection. check out this link, http://www.ehow.com/how_8503785_bridge-belkin-n300.html

im not sure if you will need to set anything up on the verizon jetpack but you will probably need the mac address for it. It may be on a sticker on the device. if not then you will have to access the device configuration to find it.

Let us know if you run into a problem and we will try and figure it out. I think ive only set up bridging one time so my knowledge of it will be limited.

Good Luck

 

Looking at the ehow article, this looks promising. It says I will have to have the MAC address of the router. On the bottom of the router I see two possibilities for this, one says - LAN/WLAN MAC followed by a series of digits and letters, and the other says WAN MAC followed by a different set of digits and letters. Is one of these the MAC address?

It also says to connect the router up to the computer but does not say which port on the computer to use. Can you point me in the right direction there? Thank you so much.

 

Should be able to use the WLAN MAC. Did you find a MAC address for the Jetpack?

You can plug the computer into any of the ports except the WAN/Internet port which is probably set aside from the rest of the ports.

 

Could Skype be an alternative here?

 

Ok so I now know the address of the router. The jetpack does not have any stickers on it only a menu on the front screen. On the password screen there is OL-9CC2, On the connected devices screen there is IP.192.168.1.2. On the About Jetpack screen there is IMEI; 990003296739085. Are any of these the MAC address?

The router has 5 phone jack type connection ports. One marked modem where the signal from the modem I use to use, went in, and the other four ports are all marked LAN. There is no port marked WAN/Internet. There is only one place where a phone jack type wire can connect to my PC.

 

none of those are mac addresses. you will need to get into the configuration page on the jetpack. You may need to click something like advanced settings or something because it may just be showing you basic settings.

You can plug the computer into one of the four LAN ports to access the router configuration.

 

couldnt edit my last post fast enough.

You can try this to get the MAC address of the jetpack. When you are connected to the jetpack, click start, click run or in vista/win7 just type it in the search box, type cmd and press enter. the command prompt window should open. type the command arp -a There is a space between arp and -a. You should see the ip address of the jetpack which is 192.168.1.2 and across from that should be the MAC address.

 

Ok, I followed your instructions and the black screen had the following: Interface 192.168.1.2, Internet address 192.168.1.1, Physical address 00-15-ff-58-9c-c2, Type dynamic.

Sorry I did not get back to you sooner but we are having some bad electrical storms moving through the area and I had to unhook everything.

 

ok so now based on the instructions on that site i posted you should be able to enable wireless bridging on the belkin router and put the two mac addresses in to create the bridge between the devices. after you have it all in, a way to test it is to disable your wireless on your pc so you wont be connected to the jetpack and connect with a cable to the router and see if you can get to the internet.

 

So is the MAC address of the jetpack the one called the internet address or the one called the physical address? Sorry to be such a pain but as you can see I am not very computer literate.

 

The physical address is the mac address. no pain no gain if that makes any sense in this context lol.

 

I tried following the steps in the ehow article and ran into a problem. It says to "Click the "Wireless Bridging" link under the "Wireless" category.". Well there is no "Wireless Bridging" to click on under the Wireless category.
The only choices are Channel and SSID, Security, WIFI security setup, and Use as an Access point.
If I click on the "Use as an Access point", a page comes up that says "ADVANCED FEATURE! The Router can be configured to act as strictly an Access Point, bypassing all of the routing and firewall functions. To do so, select "Enable" and type in the IP address you want the Access Point to have."
Is this what I need to do? There are two spaces, one for Specify IP address, and one for Subnetmask and each choice has 4 boxes to type numbers into. There are already values in each of the boxes.
The Jetpack physical address that I found has five sets of digits and letters and the router MAC address has six sets of digits and letters, so if one of them goes into the boxes, how do I enter them?

 

Ok so the link i gave you is apparently for the n300 router but you have a n300 router/modem. i chatted with belkin support (attached chat session) to see if wireless bridging is available for the n300 router/modem and it is not.

You may want to look into trying something like this.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833162036

looks like it costs as much as routers and access points that can do the same thing but since its just a bridge it should be easier to setup.

 

I really appreciate all the time and effort you have spent trying to help me with my problem. Thank you so much for all your patience and help. I am looking into the device you gave a link to and will get one of them if I cannot solve the problem any other way.