My Netgear rt314 router just dont work, help whats wrong with this POS

[bonkers325]

well yesterday DSL went poof
guess it was dsl
well today i found out dsl is fine
works fine on a single pc

router works fine via 10/100 base lan
just dsl no work with router

the prob is the damn netgear dont got a clear router crap
u have to get into the router before u can clear crap
i cant get into router either with lan or telnet
what gives

please help
i have tried many times

has this happened to anyone
i remember other peeps have had this prob
well i guess NETGEAR is crap
i chucked my linksys router for this POS :|
wrong move
time to RMA

 

[michec]

I'm using a Linksys router now, but I think this should work for Netgear as well. If the router has something corrupted that you need to get into the router to correct, most likely it is no longer acting as your DHCP server - i.e. it is not assigning IPs to your computers. If you were getting your IP from the DHCP server on the router before, you no longer have a set IP because the router isn't working normally.

Check your current IP address and subnet mask by going to Start->Run and type in "winipcfg". Click on the "more info" button and select your NIC where the down arrow is. My guess is your subnet mask is 255.255.0.0 or something similar.

To be able to get into your router's config menu, you need to have the same subnet mask as the router. For my Linksys router, the default subnet mask is 255.255.255.0, and it might be the same for your Netgear as well. In the instruction manual for your router, it should also list the router's IP address. My Linksys router's default address is "192.168.1.1". To be able to get into your router's config menu, you need to manually set your computer's subnet mask to 255.255.255.0 - then if you plug in your router's IP address in a browser, the password box should pop up.

To change your computer's IP address, right-click on "network neighborhood" and select properties. Highlight the "TCP/IP -> YOUR NIC CARD" and click properties. In the "IP Address" tab, click on the "specify an IP address" button and fill in a compatible IP address (192.168.1.2 works) and fill in 255.255.255.0 as the subnet mask (or whatever the default subnet mask is that's listed in your router's instruction manual). After rebooting, the IP change will take effect and you should hopefully be able to get into your router's config menu via your browser.

Of course, once you've corrected the settings in the router, you can change the IP address setting back to "obtain an IP address automatically".

 

[Need4Speed]

also..is the internet act LED on? if not, plug one of your pcs into the WAN side to make sure its not a blown WAN port.