Internet but no internet

[Stianh2206]

I have a Netgear WNR3500lv2 in my apartment. After changing channels (to one that was not populated) everything wen't to shit..All wireless devices started acting really sluggish, my partners macbook pro kept on getting kicked off and displaying "Session expired", same with her iphone. My own HP Envy17 went really sluggish, eventually loosing the connection and not "finding ip" when trying to connect to wifi. I then proceeded to installing the tomato firmware hoping it could help. Nothing changed still sluggish, a few times a devices actually connected but then being kicked off within 1. I eventually reset the router to factory default by a hard reset. When that was done (still in tomato) I eventually got the devices conneted to the router, but with no internet connection at all, no nothing. They just seemed to connect to the router but not the internet. Which is weird cause as I am writting this, my HP Envy has internet connection wired THROUGH (cable) the router into the modem. Which means the router's network is working? Just not the wifi broadcast.

NB!! sometimes the mac displays "The mac has a self assigned IP of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and cannot connect to the internet"

And my Android device "cannot obtain IP adress"

I'm thinking it might be some sort of IP conflict, but networking is not really thing.

Anyone got any ideas?

 

[VincentP]

In the router settings, check that DHCP is enabled.

 

[Stianh2206]

It says
Type: DHCP
MTU: Default 1500
Route Modem IP: 0.0.0.0 (must be in different subnet to router, 0.0.0.0 to disable)...lol.. could this be?

 

[Stianh2206]

In the router settings, check that DHCP is enabled.

I'm not network savy at all, but what should the DHCP be addressed to?

 

[VincentP]

In the router settings, check that DHCP is enabled.

I'm not network savy at all, but what should the DHCP be addressed to?

DHCP assigns an IP address, default gateway and DNS servers IP addresses to devices as they connect.
You don't need to address it to anything, just enable it and it will have appropriate default settings.

 

[Stianh2206]

In the router settings, check that DHCP is enabled.

I'm not network savy at all, but what should the DHCP be addressed to?

DHCP assigns an IP address, default gateway and DNS servers IP addresses to devices as they connect.
You don't need to address it to anything, just enable it and it will have appropriate default settings.

But I'n my routers options, it asks me, Modem route IP : 0.0.0.0 (must be in different subnet to router, 0.0.0.0 to disable) It's default is set to 0.0.0.0 which is means it is diabled.

 

[VincentP]

In the router settings, check that DHCP is enabled.

I'm not network savy at all, but what should the DHCP be addressed to?

DHCP assigns an IP address, default gateway and DNS servers IP addresses to devices as they connect.
You don't need to address it to anything, just enable it and it will have appropriate default settings.

But I'n my routers options, it asks me, Modem route IP : 0.0.0.0 (must be in different subnet to router, 0.0.0.0 to disable) It's default is set to 0.0.0.0 which is means it is diabled.

Here are some common settings you can use:
Router IP address 192.168.1.254
Subnet mask 255.255.255.0
DHCP addresses assigned from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.100

 

[Stianh2206]

In the router settings, check that DHCP is enabled.

I'm not network savy at all, but what should the DHCP be addressed to?

DHCP assigns an IP address, default gateway and DNS servers IP addresses to devices as they connect.
You don't need to address it to anything, just enable it and it will have appropriate default settings.

This is what it looks like, does it seem okey?

But I'n my routers options, it asks me, Modem route IP : 0.0.0.0 (must be in different subnet to router, 0.0.0.0 to disable) It's default is set to 0.0.0.0 which is means it is diabled.

Here are some common settings you can use:
Router IP address 192.168.1.254
Subnet mask 255.255.255.0
DHCP addresses assigned from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.100

This is how it looks..anything seem off?
http://tinypic.com/r/10wk1ti/8

 

[VincentP]

In the router settings, check that DHCP is enabled.

I'm not network savy at all, but what should the DHCP be addressed to?

DHCP assigns an IP address, default gateway and DNS servers IP addresses to devices as they connect.
You don't need to address it to anything, just enable it and it will have appropriate default settings.

This is what it looks like, does it seem okey?

But I'n my routers options, it asks me, Modem route IP : 0.0.0.0 (must be in different subnet to router, 0.0.0.0 to disable) It's default is set to 0.0.0.0 which is means it is diabled.

Here are some common settings you can use:
Router IP address 192.168.1.254
Subnet mask 255.255.255.0
DHCP addresses assigned from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.100

This is how it looks..anything seem off?
http://tinypic.com/r/10wk1ti/8

192.168.1.1 is the router IP address, this and other DHCP settings are fine.
The "Route modem IP" is possibly an issue.
Is this device we are looking at your modem and router, or is there a separate modem?
This "Route modem IP" is for using a separate modem, and must be the IP address of the modem.

 

[Stianh2206]

In the router settings, check that DHCP is enabled.

I'm not network savy at all, but what should the DHCP be addressed to?

DHCP assigns an IP address, default gateway and DNS servers IP addresses to devices as they connect.
You don't need to address it to anything, just enable it and it will have appropriate default settings.

This is what it looks like, does it seem okey?

But I'n my routers options, it asks me, Modem route IP : 0.0.0.0 (must be in different subnet to router, 0.0.0.0 to disable) It's default is set to 0.0.0.0 which is means it is diabled.

Here are some common settings you can use:
Router IP address 192.168.1.254
Subnet mask 255.255.255.0
DHCP addresses assigned from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.100

This is how it looks..anything seem off?
http://tinypic.com/r/10wk1ti/8

192.168.1.1 is the router IP address, this and other DHCP settings are fine.
The "Route modem IP" is possibly an issue.
Is this device we are looking at your modem and router, or is there a separate modem?
This "Route modem IP" is for using a separate modem, and must be the IP address of the modem.

Not sure if I understand what you are asking but, I changed the Route Modem IP: from 0.0.0.0 to 192.168.1.254. SHould I change it back?
My Netgear router is connected to seperate modem.

 

[Stianh2206]

Now my Macbook displays "A connection timeout occured" each time i try and connect to the network. Man what is going on? Sorry for seeming desperate or aggressive, but I live in Europe, GMT+1, it's 1am here. I'm really tired and I need this fixed by tomorrow morning cause I got a work deadline.

 

[VincentP]

The screen shot showed the router using IP 192.168.1.1 with DHCP addresses 192.168.1.2 to 100.
You could use 192.168.1.254 with DHCP addresses 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.100 as I suggested earlier, but either is perfectly ok.

What these settings in your screen shot suggest is that your modem has IP address 192.168.5.1. Is this the case?

 

[Stianh2206]

The screen shot showed the router using IP 192.168.1.1 with DHCP addresses 192.168.1.2 to 100.
You could use 192.168.1.254 with DHCP addresses 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.100 as I suggested earlier, but either is perfectly ok.

What these settings in your screen shot suggest is that your modem has IP address 192.168.5.1. Is this the case?

I don't know what my modem IP is, how do I find it? 192.168.5.1 was just something I plotted in ..It intially was 0.0.0.0,
The IP range is 192.168.2- 51

 

[Stianh2206]

Now it's back to not letting any devices connect to the router wirelessly. The macbook displays "a connection timeout occured" and the samsung Tab running android displays "Could not get IP" If this helps problemsolving.

 

[VincentP]

If you are using a wired connection to the router and it is working, that should suggest the forwarding is working but I don't see how that would be possible if the forwarding was disabled before and you have just mad up an IP address to change it.
I guess you won't do a factory reset without noting down the settings next time.

On the machine where the internet is working, open a command prompt.
Type "ipconfig /all"
Look for the connected adapter.
What is the configured IP address and default gateway?

 

[Stianh2206]

ipv4......192.168.1.51 (If this is what you mean by configured IP)
Standard gateway......192.168.1.1 (my setup is in norwegian, standard is the same a default I guess)
DHCP server........192.168.1.1

 

[VincentP]

These are the same settings that your DHCP server should be assigning to devices currently. If this machine is working, other machines connecting to this router should be working as well. You may have to raise a call with Netgear support.

 

[Stianh2206]

Well as I said, I installed the tomato FW on my netgear router, I eventually reflashed back to stock Netgear FW. Works perfectly...