Belkin N1 Vision Wireless Modem Router

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euanandrews

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#24389 22-Jul-2008 19:43

I have just brought a new Modem Router to replace my aging D-Link G604T...

It is one of the lastest, a Belkin N1 Vision Wireless Modem Router...and I have also brought a new N1 PC Card Adapter so to utilise the N network between the router and my laptop...

But I am struggling...

I cant seem to get the wireless to work properly, can anyone help?

My progress so far:
- Installed drivers required for N1 PC Card Adapter, ran the software and that worked fine...
- The N1 PC Card Adapter picked up my old D-Link G604T and connected with no issues, once I entered the security key...
- Then disconnected my old D-Link, and setup the N1 Vision Modem Router, entered all the required information in the wizard, while connected via ethernet, and made a successfull connection to the internet.

This is where I have had problems...
- Disconnected the ethernet connection, to test the wifi, and lost my connection...
- My laptop/N1 Card Adapter picks up the wifi connection fine, strong signal, but fails to assign an IP every time.

So on first look, the issue appears to be that it is not being assigned an IP address....but as far as I know, the N1 Modem Router has DHCP enabled....

I admit, I am still working on this, yet to cover every base, and I have not even worked out how to get into the GUI, as the user manual is limited and only explains how to get into the wizard....

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated

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#150466 22-Jul-2008 20:21

Is it possible to ipconfig /all check where the deafult gateway address is and in a browser enter that?? With ethernet.

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Sorry had to ask!

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#150473 22-Jul-2008 20:34

Ok...its strange....

I have got into the GUI ok now, playing with the settings...

I have disabled my default wifi hardware in my laptop, to see if that is causing issues, clashing etc...
I also went into the wifi connection properties and the Configre option, and further disabled the default wifi hardware by turning the Wirless Off in that screen...

So there should be no hardware/software conflicts between my old hardware built-into the laprop, and the new hardware N1 PC Card Adpater....

It appears I am still having issues with being assigned an IP address....but it also comes and goes....currently I am connected, with the wifi icon in the system tray showing a wireless connection with a speed of 300Mbps, and excellent signal....and that is confirmed on the modem router itself, stating on the LCD screen 1 wireless device connected....

Yet while I am connected, I still cant get internet on that connection....it just times out....hmmmm

Anyone?

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#150475 22-Jul-2008 20:39

astina6: Is it possible to ipconfig /all check where the deafult gateway address is and in a browser enter that?? With ethernet.

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Sorry had to ask!

I asked for help, not abuse...

That said, I am a lamen and do not know how to do what you just said...although I have found out the gateway, and have even changed it so not to forget....it was 192.168.2.1....but I have changed it to 10.1.1.1

Going through it, I see DHCP is enabled, and everything looks fine....

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#150488 22-Jul-2008 21:47

Good to see it working

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#150494 22-Jul-2008 22:08

But its not working

I have got into the Admin, and can see that DHCP is enabled and working...as 2 PC's showup...but the wifi connection itself is still not working properly...

The wireless connection can be found and connected to, just struggles to assign an IP...
And when it does, the connection display as 300Mbps and excellent signal....but the actual connection is not working...the pages time out.

I have given up for tonight, but will try again tomoro...and try the 0800 Belkin help number.

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#150500 22-Jul-2008 22:27

Hi thebartender, wasn't meant to be abuse. Was really doubting my own knowledge really!!

My apologies

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#150675 23-Jul-2008 15:32

When you changed from D-Link to Belkin, did you configure the Belkin with the same wireless settings - i.e. same SSID & WPA settings? If so, did you then delete this profile from your PC, and recreate the profile for connection to Belkin?

Is the PC using the Belkin software to manage the wireless connection, or is Windows managing this ?(assuming a PC not a Mac).

1. Delete wireless profile, and reconnect
2. Try Belkin software to manage wireless connection.

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#150742 23-Jul-2008 20:16

Can you ping a) gateway b) external site c) another PC.??

Just my 2c but disable(turn off) dhcp and give all connections on your LAN static addresses. For example your gateway is 10.1.1.1
so all pc's could have address like 10.1.1.20, 10.1.1.21, etc and network printer 10.1.1.30, and any servers? 10.1.1.10.

If the belkin has wpa-psk obviously set that up and if there is a "wireless access list" section available enter your mac address
for your wifi. Security, security, security.....

Once you have set up this do as coffeebarron suggested use belkin wireless software to connect. Reboot both laptop and the belkin

Good luck

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#152257 29-Jul-2008 01:01

Cheers for the help and suggestions guys...

I have now got it working!

To get it working, I ended up uninstalling the pc card drivers and restoring the factory defaults on the router, to start everything from the begining...having made sure all previous profiles/settings were deleted...

I got a connection instantly...but found the that adding security is causing problems...
It appears WPA/WPA2-Personal(PSA) is being problematic...but have managed to setup and running with basic 64bit WEP...

I will test this further in coming days, as the connection, while far superior to my old D-Link, is still not running at its optimum...
It appears that currently, with the WEP security, some certificate has not accepted and while it connects, the icon in tyhe system tray stays in the animated connecting mode...Status: Validating identity.....it cant validate, been like that for hours now, but still connects to the net....

While connected, the system tray wireless icon is tellling me the connection is only 54Mbps....been like that for hours too...should go as high as 300Mbps...

That aside, a massive overall improvement in my wireless network...
With my D-Link G604T, connection to my network would always go slow, hand windows, and connecting to the NAS device on my network was painfull...streaming movies, while possible, would always be interupted by stutter, signal dropouts etc etc...so if I ever wanted to watch a movie, I would copy the movie first from the NAS to my lappy, then watch...rather than streaming....

The result now?
I have been streaming movies from my NAS with no stutter/signal loss etc, perfect streaming, while also downloading P2P at 4mbps, all to my laptop!

Fantastic!

And I dont beleive its fully optimised yet, for the reasons stated above!