Using a dial-up connection with router in normal router mode

[Soljaah]

I put my router into bridge mode today and set up a different ISP account on each of my two computers. All was working fine, however I had no network connection between the two PC's anymore. No sharing files etc.

Was there a setting I was missing?

OR, can I keep the router in the normal router mode, have one ISP account in there, and still create a new dial-up connection on one of the PC's, as this option does not seem to be working, the dial-up connection cannot connect.

See screenshot below:

Any help will be much appreciated

 

[Asha'man X]

If I am not mistaken, when a router is configured in bridge mode, it loses most of it's intelligence and sort of acts like a plain old dial up modem. Since both the pc's now are not getting their address info from the router, they no longer want to communicate to each other even though the cables are in the same router.

As for the 2nd question, you need to put your router in something called half bridge mode, so that it can act as a normal router plus give you the option of dialing up directly from a Windows PC.

 

[Big Bean]

sometimes, well for me the connection doesnt dial the first time try up to 10 times then u will know

 

[Soljaah]

I looked up about half bridge mode for my router, and unfortunately there isn't a set option for it. One has to go through many custom settings, which also means it has to be re-done whenever the router is reset

will give it a try tomorrow though.

 

[bekdik]

sounds like your dhcp service on the router isn't working.

from a cmd line (start/run cmd) rub ipconfig /all

if your IP address is 169 dot something, you will need to manually assign IP addresses. a search of the forum will help you to find out how.

 

[Soljaah]

Seems that that was the problem, but only on the XP machine, so I just assigned it an IP manually, my Win7 machine had no trouble doing it itself?

Strange that it did that if the router isn't auto-assigning.