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I recently purchased a TP-Link TL-MR3420 router which is wired to my desktop. I have a Neotel PPP connection on my Windows 7 desktop which I'd like to share with my tablet (which is connected to the router via WiFi). Currently, my tablet cannot access the internet even though it's on the same network as my PC. Please help.
 
Did you enable Internet sharing on the Desktop? Also if you are sharing it via the Desktop through the router, you will have to hard code the DNS addresses (of Neotel) on the tablet PC. It should then work.
 
Megalin said:
Did you enable Internet sharing on the Desktop? Also if you are sharing it via the Desktop through the router, you will have to hard code the DNS addresses (of Neotel) on the tablet PC. It should then work.
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Yes I did. Will do so on the tablet. Anything I need to do on the router?
 
If you've shared the PPP connection on your Win7 PC, then you'll have to disable DHCP on your router, and you'll have to make sure that the LAN connection on your PC's IP address is like 192.168.137.1

My question for you is: why don't you dial the Neotel PPP connection from the router instead? Because that is what the routers are designed for...
 
You dont have to disable DHCP on the router, just disable it on the tablet and assign a ip address to it. Use the ip that it was getting from the router via DHCP previously.
 
Megalin said:
You dont have to disable DHCP on the router, just disable it on the tablet and assign a ip address to it. Use the ip that it was getting from the router via DHCP previously.
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Uhm not quite.

You can leave the DHCP server enabled on the router, but then you'll manually have to assign an IP address, subnet mask, default gateway and DNS server on the tablet:
IP address = 192.168.137.x (where x is anything including & between 2 and 254)
Subnet mask = 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway & DNS server = 192.168.137.1
 
Pada said:
If you've shared the PPP connection on your Win7 PC, then you'll have to disable DHCP on your router, and you'll have to make sure that the LAN connection on your PC's IP address is like 192.168.137.1

My question for you is: why don't you dial the Neotel PPP connection from the router instead? Because that is what the routers are designed for...
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Neotel is not supported. I would've bought a Dovado router but I don't have R1499.
 
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