Netgear wireless router won't get ip from Cisco 881W
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 7:52 am
Hi all,
I'm a local STS and I was told a unit had a connectivity issue which was critical with the end of the year reporting and what not. They have a somewhat legacy setup that I need to correct some day but have not had time. They have a 881w which runs a hardline to the the clerks office. in the office then then have a netgear wireless router which feeds that half of the building with wireless and then it services the clerks computer as well. It wasn't working as it looked like the 881w wasn't providing an ip to the netgear router. wall to wan port of netgear router, and then hardwired from router to clerks computer. I reset the router and still no luck. Tried releasing and renewing addresses on the router with no success. I plugged directly from the wall to the clerks computer and I got a 10.x ip address right away and the clerk was set to do his year end tasks. However there's no wireless now on that side of the building. So I assumed the router was messed up somehow. (I tried different cables with same results) However when I took it home and plugged the netgear router into my own router, it get an addresss right away and I was connected to the internet...
The weird thing is that the other units on the other side of the building have the same netgear router and its working just fine, plus this setup had been working for years with no issues till this week... All the netgear routers were set to 192.168.x.x name space.
I wanted to get your input of other things to try or possible reasons for this behavior before I go out there again with a different router? (Building is quite far)
Thanks!
I'm a local STS and I was told a unit had a connectivity issue which was critical with the end of the year reporting and what not. They have a somewhat legacy setup that I need to correct some day but have not had time. They have a 881w which runs a hardline to the the clerks office. in the office then then have a netgear wireless router which feeds that half of the building with wireless and then it services the clerks computer as well. It wasn't working as it looked like the 881w wasn't providing an ip to the netgear router. wall to wan port of netgear router, and then hardwired from router to clerks computer. I reset the router and still no luck. Tried releasing and renewing addresses on the router with no success. I plugged directly from the wall to the clerks computer and I got a 10.x ip address right away and the clerk was set to do his year end tasks. However there's no wireless now on that side of the building. So I assumed the router was messed up somehow. (I tried different cables with same results) However when I took it home and plugged the netgear router into my own router, it get an addresss right away and I was connected to the internet...
The weird thing is that the other units on the other side of the building have the same netgear router and its working just fine, plus this setup had been working for years with no issues till this week... All the netgear routers were set to 192.168.x.x name space.
I wanted to get your input of other things to try or possible reasons for this behavior before I go out there again with a different router? (Building is quite far)
Thanks!