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Home Networking Issues.
Name: Benhermies Date: December 13, 2008 at 20:36:18 Pacific OS: Windows XP SP3 CPU/Ram: Q6600 with 2GB ram Product: Acer / ASPIRE 5630
Comment:
So I'm having trouble getting my home network running after reinstalling Windows XP SP3 on both my computers. One is wired to my D-Link WBR-1310 router and the other is wireless. They can both connect to the router setup page and the internet fine but cannot see each other. They are both on the same workgroup "HOME". They are both on DHCP and the wired computer picked up the normal IP address of 192.168.0.103, while the wireless computer picked up the unusual IP of 192.168.122.111. If I try changing either machine to something more in line with the other I lose the connection on that machine.
Can someone please tell me what settings I need to enter in either machine, and/or router to have both of them on the internet, and let me see both machines on my network?
Name: OtheHill Date: December 13, 2008 at 21:22:21 Pacific
Reply:
You need to share something on each computer in order for others on the network to see them.
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Response Number 2
Name: Benhermies Date: December 13, 2008 at 21:35:40 Pacific
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I have several folders setup for sharing on both computers already. n
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Response Number 3
Name: OtheHill Date: December 13, 2008 at 21:45:26 Pacific
Reply:
Are you sure you are connecting to your own router with the wireless connection?
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Response Number 4
Name: trvlr Date: December 14, 2008 at 04:06:48 Pacific
Reply:
very much echoing OtH...
The wifi ip address seems to suggest you're picking up/using another wifi signal - not your own?
(re)Scan for available wifi sources; identify yours; and choose to use it?
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Response Number 5
Name: Benhermies Date: December 14, 2008 at 07:57:08 Pacific
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I'm definitely connecting to my home network with the WiFi computer, unless someone else setup the same SSID and password as me in my neighbourhood.
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Response Number 6
Name: Richard59 Date: December 14, 2008 at 14:04:10 Pacific
Reply:
The two systems are not in the same IP range so cannot see each other. 192.168.0.103 and 192.168.122.111
Something in your wireless settings in the router seems to have your wireless IP in a different range. That is where you need to look. The wireless IP needs to be in the range 192.168.0.(1-255)
Goin' Fishin' (Some day)
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Response Number 7
Name: Benhermies Date: December 14, 2008 at 17:12:01 Pacific
Reply:
Ok, I've reset the router to factory defaults and re-entered my IP info and setup the wireless and now both my computers have 192.168.122.x numbers and can see each other on the network, and access the internet. Still don't know how or why they're using that address instead of a more common 192.168.0.x. If I try changing to that IP nothing works. Go figure.
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Response Number 8
Name: trvlr Date: December 14, 2008 at 21:24:25 Pacific
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Mmmm... unusual ip address/scope... but who knows? What was it before problem arrived; and also what make router are you using?
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