Hello, my name is Billy Bob. How may I help you?
Posted on 08/31/2010 6:38:15 AM PDT by GregB
I have 2 computers and one laptop hooked up to Verizon DSL via my Westell 327 router. I am using XP Pro.
Do you mean you had to format and reinstall your software on the laptop? Also, you don't mention on which of the three computers you CAN access the Internet.
Have you looked at your wireless configuration on each PC to insure it's operating properly?
A format/reinstall should have no affect on either of the two other PC's. It could affect Internet access on that particular PC should devices not be recognized properly during the installation, or drivers not installed properly.
Are your PC's networked? Do they recognize one another? NOTE: You CAN have network recognition yet not get Internet access from a given PC.
Seriously. Get in to the router configuration and check to see if DHCP is enabled, then go in to each computer and check for the same. Make sure DHCP is enabled on all.
It may be that your router might be set to accept only static IPs and your computers are trying to ping for a IP Lease.
Ahh, Verizon... You must set the MAC address of the router to match the MAC address of the computer you logged on with, as Verizon only authorizes one MAC address at a time.
Google ‘setting the MAC address on my router’ for step by step instructions.
Another thing: Does the Westell have wireless security (such as WEP or WPA) set up? If so, disable the security and then try to access the modem/router. If you can do so, shut down all PC’s and boot reconnect again to insure it works, then reset your wireless security.
I find I have to do this occasionally with my Linksys router and Comcast modem. Don’t know why, but I do.
where do you find DHCP in XP? I have the same issue with my Lynksis router.
Thanks
You might have conflicting IP addresses on your router and DSL modem. If your router’s IP is 192.168.1.1 and your modem’s IP is also 192.168.1.1 this will cause conflicts. Go into the settings on your router and try changing the IP to 192.168.1.2 and see what happens.
I reformatted it and I can get on the net with anyone of them I want to and that is all,just one. I got on Westell yesterday and did some monkeying around..just not too good at the tech stuff.
Don’t have the modem hookup just the router.
I have to wonder if one of your computers was acting for a gateway for the others.
Check your firewall settings in your router; some have a setting that limit internet control and data flow to one computer at a time thru a DMZ, others might be blocked..
What operating systems, XP?
Sometimes the internal ROM of your NIC cards or onboard NIC lans get locked with an IP address that starts with 169. and normal release renew lease methods won’t work. You have to turn the computer off and unplug it to wipe the LAN ROM’s so that they can automatically find the router’s gate way and subnet addresses. Sometimes if you have a removable nic you have to unseat the nic then reseat it.
You might try turning your router off and then turning all your computers on and have them connected(after you have unplugged the computers as mentioned before,also taking the battery pack off your laptop then reconnecting it) to the router first. Then power on your router and letting it boot so that it finds all of your computers at the same time.
Is your printer connected directly to the router or to the router thru a print server? Or is your printer connected thru a computer that all the computers share when the former computer is powered on?
Are any or all of your connections wireless? Sometimes assigning a static IP address to each nic eliminates the confusion the router has to go thru in “dynamically assigning” each computer an address each time the computer is powered on.
I recently installed an HP Laserjet 3380 and Yesterday uninstalled it reading it might be a problem I have XP Pro hooked in to all of them. The computer is hooked up to the Compazor rather was.
Go to:
-START
-SETTINGS
-CONTROL PANEL
-NETWORK CONNECTIONS
-Right click on LOCAL AREA CONNECTIONS then click on PROPERTIES
-In the window you will see INTERNET PROTOCOL (TCP/IP); highlight that and then click on PROPERTIES: Make sure OBTAIN AN IP ADDRESS AUTOMATICALLY and OBTAIN DNS SERVER AUTOMATICALLY are checked/selected.
-Click on the ADVANCED button in the lower right hand portion of the same window and ensure DHCP ENABLED is listed in the IP ADDRESS window.
-Click OK for everything and you should be good to go if iit was a IP/DHCP problem.
It’s been years since I had Verizon as my ISP, but the Westell device they sent was a modem. Yet you say in another post that you have the router hooked up; not the modem. What specific model # Westell device do you have? They make both modems and modem/routers as I understand it. Much may depend on what specific device you have.
I was given a Westell 2200 but my daughter had a Westell A90327W15-06 that she had at one used from Verizon.
Everything you said was checked.
VERSALINK™ GATEWAY (MODEL 327W15-06)USER GUIDE
How do I setup a Westell with a Wireless Access Point? re: Westell 2200...
Perhaps these will help...
Sorry I have been trying everything peole had said to do.. I don’t use the modem.
I don’t use a modem. Telepathy is faster.
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