DaveK Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 Until Wednesday of this week, I was using (my own) Netgear wireless router and it all worked very well (on an ADSL line paid for by my company). My company decided that they should upgrade the ADSL line. As part of that, they have given us BT wireless routers. And - because they are idiots - they will not give us the passwords to access the router config. And - to force us to use the new router - they've changed our ADSL accounts. So we don't even know our usernames or passwords. The router seems to work OK (even though the configuration is less secure). BUT - if I put the laptop into hibernate (which I often do) then it won't connect without rebooting. I think it's trying to use the same IP address but the router has timed out. I know I originally had this problem with the Netgear and I think I solved it by configuring the router to allocate fixed IP addresses to everything. But - I obviously can't do that with the BT one. What I'd like to do is : connect the routers together with Ethernet. "Disable" the BT wireless link by disconnecting the ariel and use the wireless link of the Netgear - which still allocates the IP addresses to the laptop / PS3 etc. But - I suspect I can't do that without being able to touch the BT config? Connecting them together and disabling the ADSL login in the Netgear certainly doesn't work. Does anybody know if I can do this? I've searched the web and think I probably could do it if I could change the BT config - but I'm not sure I can do it without that (and if I can, I have no idea how!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 if I put the laptop into hibernate (which I often do) then it won't connect without rebooting. I think it's trying to use the same IP address but the router has timed out. Not really my area, but would a ipconfig /renew bring it back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveK Posted August 31, 2007 Author Share Posted August 31, 2007 I guess it probably would - I'll try it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 Sounds like a crap router if it's not renewing your IP correctly. So how do you configure your wireless encryption key without access to the router then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveK Posted August 31, 2007 Author Share Posted August 31, 2007 We were told the WEP key to use. That's all we were told about the config. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 What a PITA. So there goes any chance of port forwarding as well then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveK Posted August 31, 2007 Author Share Posted August 31, 2007 I might see if I can persuade one of our IT guys to tell me how to get into the config - then I could reconfigure the netgear and chuck the new router in the bin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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