I have 2 laptops set up wirelessly through a netgear wireless router and a DLINK modem router connected to ihug adsl.
I am trying to port forward so i can set one of my laptops up for p2p as my current speeds are less than 5kb/s.
My first step was to disable the dchp on the netgear router so now it only acts as a wireless access point. The computers only get their ip from the dlink modem/router.
I have tried to set the ip address to a static no on one of my laptops. I have set the ip address as 10.1.1.100 by accessing my wireless connection /properties/ tcp/ip address and added the dns servers for ihug, but after saving i can't access the internet. When i go into the command screen it list my ip adress as .100 but when i check the connected addresses in the dlink menu it lists my computer as .5 or .6. The same goes for the netgear wireless router. I changed its LAN address to 10.1.1.254 but the DLINK appears to be assigning it a different name. I shopuld add that i can still access the dlink menu via iexplorer and my other laptop works fine using automatically obtain ip adress. My wireless link is using a netgear usb wirelss connection stick ( with its own mac address) . Could it be the usb stick that is causing the problem?
I tried ihug help desk to get the DNS server nos which weren't the same as the DNS nos from the command prompt.
They couldn't help me when it came to trying to set up the static ip. I only know the above from studying portforward.com but the ihug help desk appeared to know even less.
Any suggestions where i am going wrong will be greatly appreciated. I spent 3 hours last night trying to figure it out and didn't even notice the earthquake!!
I would rather not have to buy another router as the netgear stuff is only 6 months old.