[P1] Airport problems

[Allan Hise]

On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 ShardAerithes at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 12/25/2003 9:26:11 PM Eastern Standard Time, kollar at alltel.net writes:
>
> > 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.
>
>
> OK, I've got the 192.168.0.xxx address, assigned by DHCP server through
> airport, but I am still unable to get onto AIM, or access any websites.
> I told the router to allow remote management through port 80 but I
> cannot log in through 192.168.0.1 over airport, yet it works fine on my
> G4 and Pentium 4 (which I am on now). Any suggestions?


You say you can't access any websites or AIM yet you have an IP address.
Do you have any DNS servers? I often am not assigned DNS servers via DHCP.

Allan