[P1] Airport problems

[Larry Kollar]

On Thursday, December 25, 2003, at 09:10 PM, ShardAerithes at aol.com 
wrote:

> I got a Dlink DI 514 wireless router for christmas. It's 802.11b. I 
> hooked up my regular computers to it through the ethernet ports, and 
> it all works fine. I get my ibook to connect to the router through 
> airport, but it will only load an ip address that begins with 192. 
> Don't you need a 10. something address to connect wirelessly? Is this 
> router not compatible with airport? Thanks for the help

No. Addresses like 192.168.x.y are similar to the 10.x.y.z block -- 
reserved for local use. If the router has DHCP, let it give your iBook 
an address & it should be able to get onto the Net.

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