Monday, January 26, 2009

Router Problem Solved

I had told my computer (via settings I had made) that whenever it wanted to get on the internet it had to do so via the Billion Brand router and had to go through a certain 'address' or 'gateway' (the address of the Billion router is http://192.168.1.254/).

Most computers are set to go to whichever address or gateway is available. Therefore the D-Link router wouldn't connect to the internet because the address or gateway is different. The D-Link is http://10.1.1.1/

Once I changed addresses to 'automatic' everything worked fine.

To give a computer its 'own' address rather than automatically find its address is needed for P2P file sharing!

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