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Author Topic: trouble acquiring ip address  (Read 5601 times)

mojo415

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trouble acquiring ip address
« on: September 20, 2009, 02:22:32 PM »
I just finished setting up my DIR-655 and my laptop cannot seem to find an IP address. It reads the signal but does not finish establishing the IP address. I tried entering a fixed ip based on the info i found running cmd ipconfig, and my laptop thinks that it is connected when i do this, however it there is no connectivity despite the fact it thinks it is.

thanks for the help
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MissRaccoon

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Re: trouble acquiring ip address
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2009, 07:50:35 AM »
Are you having your Interest Service with Verizon ???I am having the same problem now!!! Is it related to the MAC filtering? Please, somebody can help?
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mojo415

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Re: trouble acquiring ip address
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2009, 10:05:32 AM »
I am using AT&T in the Bay Area. I have been trying to find any settings in the router's preferences that assign IP addresses and I am not sure what to try. Again, any help would be greatly appreciated
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diske

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Re: trouble acquiring ip address
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2009, 12:08:13 PM »
Here are basic steps for any brand of wireless router:

1. Does the router get an IP from your Cable/DSL Modem?
You didn't say, so lets assume yes. that the world is lit up on the front of your router.
2. Does your computer NOT get an IP from your DIR-655 XXX Router via Wired Connection or Wireless?
I don't know, you never specified.
4. So it sounds like you tried setting up a static IP, which you got that info from cmd/ipconfig.
If your gateway is 192.168.0.1, make sure your entering (higher number even) 192.168.0.5 for IP, and 255.255.255.0 for subnet, 192.168.0.1 for gateway, and 192.168.0.1 for DNS.

On the SETUP/NETWORKING page, 5 and 6.
5. Have you tried setting a DHCP Reservation on the Setup/Networking for the machine?
6. Have you made sure that "Always broadcast" is Enabled?

Lastly, I have had DHCP (the device that hands out IP addresses) issues with this model forever. So I set almost all my machines to static, and i do a DHCP Reserve for them too. If you only have a problem over wireless, try creating a new WPA or WPA2 wireless network.

-Trying to help, diske.
« Last Edit: September 21, 2009, 12:27:27 PM by diske »
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bigeyes0x0

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Re: trouble acquiring ip address
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2009, 07:52:49 PM »
Well, assuming you connect to the DIR wirelessly. Besides checking what diske said about DHCP settings, the problem can be incompatibilities between the wireless adapter on your laptop and the DIR. For the latter case, you need to experiment with no encryption at all, to see if it can acquire an IP. If it can then increase the security level slowly. Typically if a client does not work with WPA2-AES only mode, then can try WPA or WPA2" mode in AES to see how it goes.
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