Hi,
I am trying to remotely diagnose my daughter's internet set up with an NTL
cable modem together with an ADSL Wireless router acting as a plain wirelss connection point.
If her laptop is connected via her wired ethernet connection and has AUTO assign IP DNS (on XP), the laptop can connect to the internet fine. In this configuration her default gateway is 82.XXX.XXX.XXX (can't remember it exactly).
When her laptop is then substituted with the NEtgear router, she can wirelessly connect to the router (confirmed by access to the router's ip of default 192.168.0.1 and the web configuration interface). In the NEtgear we have turned off DHCP, enabled RIP in both directions with 2b as the version. But her laptop cannot connect to the internet.
I thought the cable modem may have had a configuration page where you could manage the IP ranges assigned on the ethernet port, but I don't think there is one. If the laptop was being assigned an 82.xxx.xxx.xxx number then I doubt if the Netgears default 192.168.0.1 will be on the same subnet as the cable modem.
How do I get the NEtgear and cable modem to talk to each other so that the laptop's DHCP will find the cable modem for the correct IP, subnet, gateway and DNS?
Thanks