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[mhunter]

Hi gang,

I need some help with an issue I've got. When I hook up my DNS-323 via the ethernet cable through the router, I routinely lose my USB-based wireless internet. I'm using a regular cable and have tried a reverse cable but it's got the same effect. When I lose wireless, it stays connected but I lose internet access. The only solution is to disconnect and reconnect.

Help!

Thanks!

Martin

[fordem]

How about you "re-define" the symptoms.

Statements like "when I lose wireless, it stays connected, but I lose internet access" are quite confusing - quite obviously you cannot simultaneously lose wireless and still have it connected. 

Maybe a sketch of how you have things connected might also make it clear - when I hook up my DNS-323 via the ethernet cable throught the router, I routinely lose my USB-based wireless internet - sounds like an unorthodox setup.

Connecting a DNS-323 to a router via an ethernet cable is unlikely to cause problems, that is how designed to work.

In a nutrshell, unless some one here can accurately vizualize how your system is setup, and exactly what the problem you're having is - you're not likely to get much help.

[hilaireg]

I need some help with an issue I've got. When I hook up my DNS-323 via the ethernet cable through the router ...

Please provide the Manufacturer, Model, and Firmware Revision for your router.

... I routinely lose my USB-based wireless internet ...

Please provide the Manufacturer, Model, and Firmware Revision for your USB Wireless device.  Additionally, are you indicating that you have the USB Wireless device connected to a USB port on the router?

I'm using a regular cable and have tried a reverse cable but it's got the same effect. When I lose wireless, it stays connected but I lose internet access. The only solution is to disconnect and reconnect.

Few questions:

Which device provides IP Addresses on your LAN; the router? 
Did you secure your wireless device to avoid external access?

[fordem]

On second thoughts -

Is it that you have wireless-USB internet access and when you connect an ethernet cable between that computer and the router that you lose internet access?

I want you to note that in the above scenario I don't even mention the DNS-323.

You could be creating a situation were your computer is attached to two different physical networks, one via the USB wireless device and a second via the ethernet cable - depending on the ip addressing schemes used you could end up losing connectivity altogether or having two "default gateway" settings in the PC's routing table which could cause a loss of internet access.

These are both "pure network" issues and in no way relate to the DNS-323 itself.

[mhunter]

The router is a D-link DIR-615 fw version 3.11NA but this doesn't matter as I had identical issues when using an altogether different router at a previous location; a Linksys though I forget the exact model.

The wireless adapter is a Linksys WUSB600N V1.

Here's my setup and problem in more detail: Internet is accessed via a cable modem, at this point not applicable to the problem I'm having as, again, it happened with another setup entirely. The modem gives data to the DIR-615 router. The router does not matter either, as it continues to work fine and provide internet service to my laptop when the desktop is experiencing the problem. The DNS-323 is connected, via an ethernet cable, to the router and accessed via the local network. The WUSB600N is connected to a USB port in my desktop computer. Mere connection of the DNS-323's cable to the router does nothing in and of itself until the 323 is turned on, where the problem starts.

Once the 323 is turned on, on a regular basis, and completely unpredictable, the wireless connection (only on the desktop - as mentioned earlier, the laptop has no such issues) will no longer allow me to connect to the internet. The wireless connection itself stays connected but I cannot access anything outside of my local network. Again, the wireless connection status still says "connected" with an "excellent" signal but anything outside of local is inaccessible. The main solution to when this happens is to manually disconnect from the wireless connection and reconnect. This will work for anywhere from several minutes to several hours before it happens again.

For what it's worth, the desktop is the only machine that maps the 323 to a local drive. The laptop never accesses it.

Hilaireg, the router does indeed provide IP addresses. Yes, I did indeed secure the wireless to limit access.

Martin

[lizzi555]

Crazy thought ...

Did you enable DHCP in the DNS-323 menu ?



If so, disable this setting.

[gunrunnerjohn]

The DHCP server is likely to be the issue, can't think of anything else that would do this.