Re: Access limitations(?), and moving to a simple LAN

On 12 Oct, Govind Kharbanda wrote:

> Haven't seen any more on here from Jeremy lately, so I'm just posting
> an update on the progress we made yesterday afternoon:
>
[snip]
>
> However when we tried plugging the cable modem into Jeremy's RPC (RISC
> OS 3.7), which doesn't support DHCP, we had to manually assign an IP
> address of the form 192.168.100.x (the modem was 192.168.100.1, which
> we entered as the gateway address) and as we didn't know the DNS
> server addresses for blueyonder, weren't able to progress further.
> Searched the blueyonder support pages and tried a couple of Google
> searches but no luck.

With the cable modem connected to the PC, open a command window
and type "ipconfig /all" (minus quotes). Your assigned DNS will be in
amongst the other information returned.
>
[snip]
>
> Router (Draytek Vigor 2300): Using my Windows laptop, downloaded
> latest firmware (v 2.5.2) and installed it on the router.
>
> Was able to communicate with the router (192.168.1.1) via its embedded
> Web server, which correctly showed the MAC addresses of all connected
> devices. The problem was I really didn't understand all the options on
> the Draytek router's setup pages - compared with my old setup at home
> (a belkin wireless router plugged into an rcomp adsl modem/router) it
> seemed so much harder to configure.
>
[snip]

You might get useful advice on the Vigor 2300 from the forum on the
Draytek web site - you do need to register. I still own (but no longer
use) a Vigor 2200USB ADSL router, and from what I can remember there was
a lot of useful information available.

http://www.forum.draytek.co.uk/

>From experience elsewhere in web-based forums, you will usually have to
wade through a great deal of dross to get to the gems...

....a bit like Usenet, really ;-)
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