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Hi,
Though I'm a tech, I've never had the opportunity to work with, and learn the basics of, networking. In that regard, I'm a total noob. Please bear with me. I Googled the Net for an answer but didn't find a solution because my situation is rather unorthodox. So I need your help. Here's my situation:
I live in a house that has AT&T U-verse. My pc is a couple of rooms away from the U-verse router so I pick up my Internet signal via a Netgear WG111v2 USB wireless adapter. Works great. But I have a couple of "new" Palm Pre handhelds with sync software that requires a wireless connection (won't do USB). Fortunately, I had a Netgear WGR614 v4 54 Mbps Wireless Router in storage. (I used it years ago so it had already been configured but back then it was wired directly to an AT&T router with a patch cable to my roommate's pc and to my pc wirelessly.)
So not knowing what to do, I just powered it up, plugged a patch cable into my pc's NIC and plugged the other end into the WAN port. Voila! I had connectivity to my Palm Pre's. All was well for about 15 minutes when all of a sudden my pc lost connection (wirelessly) to the U-verse router. And though the Netgear Smart Wizard showed a strong signal from the Netgear WGR614 Wireless Router and the Palm's were picking up a strong signal from it, they couldn't "surf" the Net. I guess WinXP (being PnP) decided to adjust things causing everything to stop working. (Just a guess.)
I moved the patch cable from the WAN port to a LAN port. This enabled me to access the Netgear router wizard for the first time since I used it years ago. (http://192.168.0.1) I couldn't access it earlier in this endeavor when the patch cable was connected to the WAN port. So this seemed encouraging. But no, it didn't help. Nothing was connecting to the Net. And the only way to restore my pc's connection via the Netgear USB wireless adapter to U-verse was to unplug the Netgear wireless router.
Could it be that all I need to do is configure the TCP/IP, DNS, Default Gateway, and subnet mask settings for my pc's NIC and/or the router? Since I lack a basic understanding of networking, I really don't know what settings to use for each network connection.
In a nutshell, this is what I want to do (and it initially worked):
U-verse 2wire > WG111 usb > PC > NIC > WGR614 wireless > Palm Pre
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Though I'm a tech, I've never had the opportunity to work with, and learn the basics of, networking. In that regard, I'm a total noob. Please bear with me. I Googled the Net for an answer but didn't find a solution because my situation is rather unorthodox. So I need your help. Here's my situation:
I live in a house that has AT&T U-verse. My pc is a couple of rooms away from the U-verse router so I pick up my Internet signal via a Netgear WG111v2 USB wireless adapter. Works great. But I have a couple of "new" Palm Pre handhelds with sync software that requires a wireless connection (won't do USB). Fortunately, I had a Netgear WGR614 v4 54 Mbps Wireless Router in storage. (I used it years ago so it had already been configured but back then it was wired directly to an AT&T router with a patch cable to my roommate's pc and to my pc wirelessly.)
So not knowing what to do, I just powered it up, plugged a patch cable into my pc's NIC and plugged the other end into the WAN port. Voila! I had connectivity to my Palm Pre's. All was well for about 15 minutes when all of a sudden my pc lost connection (wirelessly) to the U-verse router. And though the Netgear Smart Wizard showed a strong signal from the Netgear WGR614 Wireless Router and the Palm's were picking up a strong signal from it, they couldn't "surf" the Net. I guess WinXP (being PnP) decided to adjust things causing everything to stop working. (Just a guess.)
I moved the patch cable from the WAN port to a LAN port. This enabled me to access the Netgear router wizard for the first time since I used it years ago. (http://192.168.0.1) I couldn't access it earlier in this endeavor when the patch cable was connected to the WAN port. So this seemed encouraging. But no, it didn't help. Nothing was connecting to the Net. And the only way to restore my pc's connection via the Netgear USB wireless adapter to U-verse was to unplug the Netgear wireless router.
Could it be that all I need to do is configure the TCP/IP, DNS, Default Gateway, and subnet mask settings for my pc's NIC and/or the router? Since I lack a basic understanding of networking, I really don't know what settings to use for each network connection.
In a nutshell, this is what I want to do (and it initially worked):
U-verse 2wire > WG111 usb > PC > NIC > WGR614 wireless > Palm Pre
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!