Irritating PC / router issue

The_Ogre

The_Ogre

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This weekend I was pulling my hair out with this!

What I did was plug my 3g modem into my PC so that I can share my 3g with my wireless devices at home (ADSL not working at the moment).

So I logged into me router, turned off DHCP, and pointed it to my PC a Default Gateway. Then using ICS I shared the connection

Everything worked 100%!

So yesterday I needed to connect things back the way they were and this is where I'm still stuck. I did a hard reset on my router (because I'm lazy to change all the settings back manually :D ), but now I can't log into it

The problem is this. The PC is still trying to dish out IP's and I have no idea of where to disable this (this is a win 7 machine). This causes problems, as because I had reset the router (in default mode my router's DHCP is enabled). So both are fighting to hand out IP's.

I can't log into my router with either of my wife or my tabs because the devices use the IP's assigned to them by the PC and not those the router gives out. This means I'm on a different subnet from the router so I can't connect to it.

The IP address on the PC itself appears to be a WAN address. I think it keeps the last address it got when I went online - when I go online again it gets a different one then retains it as well.

Any ideas?
 
For the time being, you can assign a manual IP to your tab in the range used by the router. You can then make changes to the router that you need to make (username, password etc. for your ADSL line).

But you will eventually need to fix the problem of your PC dishing out IPs. Also for the time being, you could simply switch the PC off (so that it doesn't assign IPs) as an intermediary measure. OR, just switch ICS off on your PC......?
 
blueowl said:
For the time being, you can assign a manual IP to your tab in the range used by the router. You can then make changes to the router that you need to make (username, password etc. for your ADSL line).

But you will eventually need to fix the problem of your PC dishing out IPs. Also for the time being, you could simply switch the PC off (so that it doesn't assign IPs) as an intermediary measure. OR, just switch ICS off on your PC......?
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ICS is off, its still giving out IP'c and I don't know why or how to turn that particular feature off.
 
Worst comes to worst disable the DHCP Server service in services.msc control panel
 
PsyWulf said:
Worst comes to worst disable the DHCP Server service in services.msc control panel
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Ja that's my last option, I thought about it but was concerned that it will stop the whole DHCP config (ei, PC won't be able to accept IP's from the router at all)
 
YingYang said:
Ja that's my last option, I thought about it but was concerned that it will stop the whole DHCP config (ei, PC won't be able to accept IP's from the router at all)
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Seperate service,DHCP Client
 
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