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Setting up a home network with Voyager router
I am setting up a new machine running WinXP-SP2
Home edition, to replace an older machine running win98SE - updated to current date. This will eventually be used by someone else in the family on a wireless network but I haven't got that set up yet, and haven't bought the wireless adapter for the remote machine - at the moment I am just wanting to transfer files and download stuff using both machines in the same room connected with crossover cable via ethernet ports. I'm an experienced PC user and builder but new to XP and new to networks. Win98SE now has a Network logon, and I am working in XPHome on an Admin account that I don't intend to use for anything except setting up. I have a wireless voyager router, with wireless OFF, and connecting to the XP machine via USB (I normally connect to the router via ethernet but as each machine has only one ethernet port I am using usb to connect to internet at this stage of the game). The XP machine is connected to the Win98SE machine with a crossover ethernet cable. I want to network the two machines together, and share the internet access. I have tried using the network wizard from to set up the network on both machines but am unable to get both a network AND shared internet. I can do one or the other but not both. I have tried assigning IP's manually on both machines, and also letting both machines auto-assign - but if the internet connection is up and running, they don't seem to be able to auto-assign an IP address. If I manually assign the address then the internet connection goes down. Router details are at present: LAN side IP Address Settings Primary IP Address Enter here the IP address of your BT Voyager. This is the address visible from the computers on your network. IP Address: 192.168.11 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 Host Name: voyager Domain Name: home Secondary IP Address Configure secondary IP address and subnet mask - not ticked DHCP Server Settings Enabling DHCP Server on LAN interface can provide the proper IP address settings to your computer. DHCP Server - On Start IP: 192.168.1.2 End IP: 192.168.1.2.254 Lease Time: 1days 0hours 0minutes DHCP Server off Reserved IP entries - none entered so far. As my network functions when the router is not connected, and as internet functions fine when network is not connected. But if I try and run both then either the internet access goes down or the network goes down. I'm fairly sure that the problem comes when I enter the IP's for my two computers in the network wizard - at the moment I have tried 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2 - but it looks like those are already occupied by the router? What should I be telling the wizard about IP addresses and subnet mask for each network? And do I need to change anything on the network section of the router? And how do I go about clearing out the old network entries and starting afresh? Many many thanks to anyone who can help me. -- Rev Robert M Jones, Wimborne Baptist Church, UK http://www.wimborne-baptist.org.uk Free trial of Mailwasher Pro - effective email spam filter - (commission goes to our partners in Bulgaria) http://fta.firetrust.com/index.cgi?id=420 |
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Setting up a home network with Voyager router
On Thu, 25 May 2006 12:39:03 +0100, Robert M Jones
wrote: Router details are at present: LAN side IP Address Settings Primary IP Address Enter here the IP address of your BT Voyager. This is the address visible from the computers on your network. IP Address: 192.168.11 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 The ip address of the router is wrong (probably just a typo missing dot) so check that. The easiest way is to create a network bridge on the xp machine (between the ethernet and usb network interfaces) and let both machines get an ip address from the router by dhcp. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro.../xpbrdgnt.mspx Jim. |
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Setting up a home network with Voyager router
On Thu, 25 May 2006 12:39:03 +0100, Robert M Jones
wrote: Router details are at present: LAN side IP Address Settings Primary IP Address Enter here the IP address of your BT Voyager. This is the address visible from the computers on your network. IP Address: 192.168.11 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 The ip address of the router is wrong (probably just a typo missing dot) so check that. The easiest way is to create a network bridge on the xp machine (between the ethernet and usb network interfaces) and let both machines get an ip address from the router by dhcp. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro.../xpbrdgnt.mspx Jim. |
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Setting up a home network with Voyager router
James Egan wrote:
On Thu, 25 May 2006 12:39:03 +0100, Robert M Jones wrote: Router details are at present: LAN side IP Address Settings Primary IP Address Enter here the IP address of your BT Voyager. This is the address visible from the computers on your network. IP Address: 192.168.11 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 The ip address of the router is wrong (probably just a typo missing dot) so check that. The easiest way is to create a network bridge on the xp machine (between the ethernet and usb network interfaces) and let both machines get an ip address from the router by dhcp. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro.../xpbrdgnt.mspx Jim. Yes - sorry about the typo - spotted it after it had gone - should be 1.1 not 11 Thank you for the link - I will follow that one up - it looks helpful. I did see the bridging option but didn't know enought to make it work. -- Rev Robert M Jones, Wimborne Baptist Church, UK http://www.wimborne-baptist.org.uk Free trial of Mailwasher Pro - effective email spam filter - (commission goes to our partners in Bulgaria) http://fta.firetrust.com/index.cgi?id=420 |
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Setting up a home network with Voyager router
James Egan wrote:
On Thu, 25 May 2006 12:39:03 +0100, Robert M Jones wrote: Router details are at present: LAN side IP Address Settings Primary IP Address Enter here the IP address of your BT Voyager. This is the address visible from the computers on your network. IP Address: 192.168.11 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 The ip address of the router is wrong (probably just a typo missing dot) so check that. The easiest way is to create a network bridge on the xp machine (between the ethernet and usb network interfaces) and let both machines get an ip address from the router by dhcp. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro.../xpbrdgnt.mspx Jim. Yes - sorry about the typo - spotted it after it had gone - should be 1.1 not 11 Thank you for the link - I will follow that one up - it looks helpful. I did see the bridging option but didn't know enought to make it work. -- Rev Robert M Jones, Wimborne Baptist Church, UK http://www.wimborne-baptist.org.uk Free trial of Mailwasher Pro - effective email spam filter - (commission goes to our partners in Bulgaria) http://fta.firetrust.com/index.cgi?id=420 |
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