Uncle Iceburns Tech Help Desk

[jaydisc]

You don't have a valid computer address. Any address starting with 169.254 means that the computer wasn't offered an address by another device so it picks a random one that starts with that prefix.

Either your mode/router is misconfigured and is not giving your computer an address, or you are supposed to initiate a connection from your computer (e.g. PPPoE)

The first thing I'd do is get rid of USB. It's not meant for networking. Plug in the Ethernet/network cable instead and then come back with the output of ipconfig again.

[Golden Phoenix]

You don't have a valid computer address. Any address starting with 169.254 means that the computer wasn't offered an address by another device so it picks a random one that starts with that prefix.

Either your mode/router is misconfigured and is not giving your computer an address, or you are supposed to initiate a connection from your computer (e.g. PPPoE)

The first thing I'd do is get rid of USB. It's not meant for networking. Plug in the Ethernet/network cable instead and then come back with the output of ipconfig again.

That was the network cable one.
My current setup is just having the adsl router connected via the usb, not the wireless router

edit:this is what I get with my current setup
Windows IP Configuration


Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::31c8:e473:79ad:2658%9
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 10.1.1.3
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.0.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.1.1.1

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 6:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:0:cf2e:308c:3899:173f:c59f:b118
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::3899:173f:c59f:b118%8
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : ::

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 7:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 11:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

[jaydisc]

This looks MUCH better. You have a valid address. However, I'm confused as to what the current setup is.

[Golden Phoenix]

This looks MUCH better. You have a valid address. However, I'm confused as to what the current setup is.

This should help:

The first one isn't working, and that is the first lot of ipconfig output I posted
The second one is a temp thing I have going so I can use the internet

[iceburn]

that looks much better...is it working now?

[jaydisc]

OK, I get it now. The wireless router seems misconfigured. There are two ways to setup your wireless router:

1. As a simple access point, meaning it simply bridges wireless to wired. If this was working, your machine would be able to get a non-169.254 address when hanging off the wireless.

2. As a router, which means that it translates between your wireless and wired connection. This is NOT ideal as you already have a router/translator in your ADSL device translating between your house and your ISP. Two translators is generally not a good thing. If this was working, your router would be assigning you a non-169.254 address itself, which it isn't.

Let's start talking about make and models. What is the ADSL modem and what is the wireless router?

I think the best thing to do is reset the wireless router and reconfigure it from scratch.

[Golden Phoenix]

that looks much better...is it working now?

The usb option works, but it means that I can't use anything else that uses the Wireless modem. Things like my printer, Wii as well as my mum's and brother's laptops. Hence why I'm trying to get the Ethernet connection running again

The Wireless router is a Netgear MR814 v3
The ADSL router is a D-Link DSL-502T

1. As a simple access point, meaning it simply bridges wireless to wired.

This is what it used to be when it worked. It was just so my brother and mum could uses the internet as well as letting me Wii connect.
The thing is that if I set up the original set up, everything but the computer can use the internet

[jaydisc]

Can you just plug the PC into the back of the Netgear WIRED? Is it only on WIRELESS that the PC doesn't work?

Also, have you tried connecting the PC direct to the DLink over Ethernet instead of USB?

[blackie]

heres an interesting one.
when i set up our wireless network my parents decided that they should know the password for the router, and only them. now the only problem is that they have forgotten it
its a D-Link 614+ ( i think, i cbf'd getting up to check)
is there anything i can do short of resetting the router and starting all over again?

[iceburn]

every router has a reset button.
Continue to hold the reset button for 20 seconds after reconnecting the power. Wait for the router to reboot. Log in with the default password.