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[fearmyskillz]

I decided to purchase a D-LINK router, I read many good reviews on the DIR-825. I've had my old linksys router for 5 years and it was time for a upgrade. I have been trying for about 6 hours now to get the wireless router to work with hughesnet Satellite HN9000 dish (I am in a rural area, and all I can get is satellite).

I am able to connect to the D-LINK router with the wireless connection from my pc, but everytime I bring up a webpage its blank, so something isn't right. I use windows XP as my operating system, can anyone point me in the right direction? I must be missing something?

Windows says it connects to the wireless dlink device, but I've noticed sometimes in the windows wireless configs it says invalid ip address when I click on properties, I setup using the DHCP connection, any help is greatly appreciated. I am able to get screenshots of the hughesnet modem configs if that helps?

H/W Ver.: B1 F/W Ver.:2.00NA

Thankyou for any assistance.

[fearmyskillz]

UPDATE:

I can connect to the D-LINK wireless location now and access the internet, but only if I plug it into the old linksys wireless-g router and run a long ethernet cable to plug into the D-LINK. Does this mean the DIR-825 is not going to perform at its best? I really needed 2 access points, one above my garage and the other in the house. Now I got 1 router going to another router then to the satellite modem. Also have about 8 computers running at same time, do you guys recommend that I get a HUB for my other location? How should I go about using the equipment to perform at its best? TY!

[BOFslime]

The default config does a pretty good job at setting all of this up for you.  Your issue could be a couple of things however.

You're getting IP, but your dlink isn't configured or isn't able to connect to your ISP.
Internet is working and you're getting IP but DNS isn't configured correctly.
dhcp is failing and you're not getting IP.

please check the output of the following command in cli:
ipconfig /all

ensure this matches what your router is handing out, and not the microsoft failed ip of 169.x.x.x.

You may also need to reset your ISP's router/bridge/"modem", since connecting your 825, a lot of bridged devices bind themselves to your old devices mac and this may need to get cleared out if they only allow 1 binding and it hasn't expired.

You could also reset to factory defaults and reconfigure from scratch just in case something was missed.  Chances are is that its something simple.

[ChickenMan]

First thing.... upgrade the firmware on the router then reset the unit to factory after and build the config from scratch.  You will need to download this while connected with your old router.

ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Gateway/dir825_revB/Firmware/dir825_revB_firmware_202NA.zip

After that, please login to your old router and figure out how it is configured.  You need to replicate the configuration of your old router to your new router.  (For example:  is it setup for PPPoE with a user name and password?  ...did it clone a MAC address?)

In the end, ...after you tried this, call the Hughes Net support.  They have been helpful in the past (I bought my mother the samething 4 years ago and I had to setup her router too.)