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Hi

This may be a very simple question but today of all days I have like 1 million things to do and don't have time to sit and play with it

I have windows 7 downstairs plugged into a dlink wireless router, this has all my media on it which I want to access upstairs on several PC's

I have it plugged into a switch upstairs which is then plugged into a TP wireless router

I have an XP machine plugged into this TP wireless router and it gets internet, also it is getting its IP from the TP router, i did try to disable DHCP on the TP router but when it got its IP from the Dlink it only worked for about 20 seconds then it dropped the IP

Win7 and XP cannot see each other?

Can anyone recommend some troubleshooting steps pliz.........

Thanks

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mbarra

Can you not change the static address the second router?

exampasser

mbarra wrote: »

Can you not change the static address the second router?

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That's what I've been thinking.

earweed

Look back a little further in the thread. His factory installed firmware doesn't allow him to do much of anything.

earweed

Hyper-Me wrote: »

This thread hurts my head.

LMAO..it kind of does mine too.

exampasser

earweed wrote: »

Look back a little further in the thread. His factory installed firmware doesn't allow him to do much of anything.

I believe the issue was that he could not change the value of the third octet on his TP router, I didn't know if he tried to change the value of the third octet on his dlink router.

earweed

True I don't think he tried that. Could be worth a try.

exampasser

If that doesn't work there is the router flashing option.

Lee H

I may have just made some progress,

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"I believe the issue was that he could not change the value of the third octet on his TP router, I didn't know if he tried to change the value of the third octet on his dlink router."

Just changed my Dlink to a static 192.168.1.10, also disabled DHCP and gave my main PC a static IP of 192.168.1.20, internet still works

Going to go try my other PC upstairs now fingers crossed

So I gave my PC upstairs a static IP 192.168.1.21, unplugged the link from the Dlink into a diff port and now it works, have internet and can even access my shares

Going to try disabling DHCP now cos I really need 4 PC's hooked up in here

Done a factory reset so it had IP 192.168.1.1, disabled DHCP then plugged the feed into the WAN port and then lost internet, grr

Still need a switch cos am using 1 of the 4 ports for my feed from the dlink and I have 4 PC's

Never again am I buying TP-LINK kit

Thanks for your help much appreciated wouldnt have fixed it without it