Southern New Jersey Overlook

In my office I have a main router that connects to the Internet and to a wireless router.  I have had consistent problems with being able to connect wireless enabled computers and devices to the local area network via the wireless connection. 

My wireless device/computer would recognize the connection, but when it tried to connect, it would not be able to obtain an IP address.   Sometimes I could get the wireless connection to complete by powering down and restarting the main and wireless router.  Sometimes I had to restart the wireless router a second time, then it would work. 

During my recent problem with the main router, I was discussing this issue on the phone with the technical support person, in case it was a related to the problem.  He told me it was important to make sure that, since the main router was acting as the DHCP server, I needed to go into the wireless router's administrative controls (via a browser, this is a Linksys wireless router) and make sure that "Operating Mode" was set to "Router" ( NOT "Gateway").  Also, make sure that "Dynamic Routing" was set to "Disabled". 

At this point in time, having completed those instructions, I have not experienced any significant difficulty in being able to connect to the network.


[Sometimes the process and effort in resolving one obstacle will allow you to find important answers to other problems which you never would have discovered if you nevered faced that obstacle.]





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