Reply
brownwolf66
Posts: 17
Registered: ‎06-17-2012

Re: WRT 120N- Cannot connect to the internet with more than one PC at a time.

I was searching yesterday for a way to sort out my problem before posting here and I read that suggestion on some forum or website.If it's causing a problem for wireless connection,I will change it back to 192.168.1.1

 

Let me know what I should do.

Expert
Expert
Posts: 12,649
Registered: ‎07-16-2006

Re: WRT 120N- Cannot connect to the internet with more than one PC at a time.

192.168.2.1 should be fine.
brownwolf66
Posts: 17
Registered: ‎06-17-2012

Re: WRT 120N- Cannot connect to the internet with more than one PC at a time.

Reverted back to 192.168.1.1 and tried a wireless login to the internet...no luck.Now I have reverted back to 192.168.2.1 and tried again to no avail.

Any suggestions?

Expert
Expert
Posts: 12,649
Registered: ‎07-16-2006

Re: WRT 120N- Cannot connect to the internet with more than one PC at a time.

1. Don't make unnecessary changes. This makes it much more difficult. In particular in Windows, settings something and then setting it back is often not without further consequences.

2. You have made so many changes on your computers which messed it up pretty well. For example, you can see a lot of isatap, 6to4 and other network adapters in ipconfig which are bogus remnants of your previous experiments. Thus, it's difficult to find out what exactly causes this problem.

3. I would suggest you remove your wireless network on the computer and then reconnect to see if it makes a difference.

4. If that doesn't help it may be necessary to reset the IP stack or clean up the garbage of all your previous experiments.

5. It could also help to remove the wireless adapter in the device manager, reboot and then let Windows rediscover the adapter. This should setup a new connection hopefully with clean settings.

6. If the ipconfig before is the one when you try to connect wireless to the router, it seems not to get an IP address via DHCP. Check the event manager for messages of the dhcp client service. This may tell what goes wrong.
Expert
zee29
Posts: 1,168
Registered: ‎04-22-2012

Re: WRT 120N- Cannot connect to the internet with more than one PC at a time.

As was suggested in this  thread, set the router back to PPPoE. Make sure to disable your PPP dialer. Do not use Internet Connection Sharing. Re-establish wired internet connection and make sure that both your computers are able to go online using the router to get the internet connection (not ICS). If both computers are able to go online wired to the router then you can check and see if you can connect to the wireless network (given you hav already configured the wireless settings of the router). Again please allow the router to share the internet connection in the network.

brownwolf66
Posts: 17
Registered: ‎06-17-2012

Re: WRT 120N- Cannot connect to the internet with more than one PC at a time.

Hi zee29,

 

Thank you for your reply.As you have suggested,here is what I have done so:

 

"As was suggested in this  thread, set the router back to PPPoE. Make sure to disable your PPP dialer. Do not use Internet Connection Sharing. Re-establish wired internet connection and make sure that both your computers are able to go online using the router to get the internet connection (not ICS)" This has been done.Now both my computers can connect either together or individually to the internet.This happens only when wired.I do not have a Wireless card in my desk top so I use a cable.My Laptop not connecting wirelessly is where my problem is.


"If both computers are able to go online wired to the router then you can check and see if you can connect to the wireless network (given you hav already configured the wireless settings of the router). Again please allow the router to share the internet connection in the network." I do not know what the correct wireless settingsshould be and how to configure them correctly..I would appreciate any help/suggestions.

 

brownwolf66

brownwolf66
Posts: 17
Registered: ‎06-17-2012

Re: WRT 120N- Cannot connect to the internet with more than one PC at a time.

Right.Thank you for your help.I am not very computer savvy and do not as a rule,make any unnecessary changes to my computers.I cannot afford to take that risk as I have menitioned in my original post that I run a small business from my home as I am disabled.Whatever changes you might have seen would have occured when I was trying to solve my problems.Thank fully,now both my computers can connect to the internet either individually or simultaneously thanks to the knowledgeable people on this forum.

 

You have suggested doing a few things which are basically Greek and Latin to me.I am willing to do as you suggest provided you tell me how to on a step by step basis including how to clean up my garbage.

 

Thank you you once again for all your help.

 

brownwolf66

Jake_2.0
Posts: 1,883
Registered: ‎05-29-2012

Re: WRT 120N- Cannot connect to the internet with more than one PC at a time.

It's a good thing that you were able to make it to work. Congratualations!

brownwolf66
Posts: 17
Registered: ‎06-17-2012

Re: WRT 120N- Cannot connect to the internet with more than one PC at a time.

Hi Jake_2.0,

 

Work?? It's working but only wired which is fine for my desk top.I need my laptop to connect to the internet wirelessly which is NOT happening at all.

 

brownwolf66

ScarletJamie
Posts: 1,534
Registered: ‎04-22-2012

Re: WRT 120N- Cannot connect to the internet with more than one PC at a time.


brownwolf66 wrote:

Hi Jake_2.0,

 

Work?? It's working but only wired which is fine for my desk top.I need my laptop to connect to the internet wirelessly which is NOT happening at all.

 

brownwolf66


What is the error message when you are trying to connect?