Modem to switch then to wireless router?

[JC]

Hi, trying to get some wireless going at my girlfriend's place. Her Charter cable modem only has one ethernet port, so I got a D-Link DIR-601 wireless router. Her computer is actually owned by the company she works for, and after hooking up the router the company's website kept timing out on her. Their tech support didn't know what to do about the router settings. Neither did I, so I got a Netgear FS105 switch, uplinked the modem to it, and connected the router to the switch. Her computer works fine. I can connect wirelessly to the router, but I can't get any internet. I'm not very savvy on router settings. Is there any way I can make this configuration work? Sorry for the long story, and thanks for any help.

 

[munkle]

You need the router to connect directly to the modem. The modem will only give out one ip address, so your pc is getting the ip address and there is nothing left for the wireless clients. With a router directly connected to the modem the router gets the ip and then the router gives out it's own Ip's based on the ip range that it has configured, most are 192.168.1.0-192.168.1.255 or something very similar. The switch just routes traffic it doesn't hand out ip addresses.

 

[JC]

I see...unfortunately, I couldn't resolve the timeout issue with the router, and she couldn't have that.

I guess I could see if she can get a wireless router from Charter.

Thanks!

 

[munkle]

I see...unfortunately, I couldn't resolve the timeout issue with the router, and she couldn't have that.

I guess I could see if she can get a wireless router from Charter.
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Thanks!

have you tried a factory reset on the wireless router?

 

[JC]

Yep, I did do that.

 

[MtnMan]

Without knowing "how" she connects to her company servers (VPN perhaps?) its not clear what is going on.

I would try putting her computer in the DMZ (configured in the router) which may eliminate the timeout problem.