Zyxel 660HW

Jun 26, 2005 4 Replies
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Hello,



After some hesitation today I bought a wireless router/modem. I used to have an Alcatel Speedtouch 510v4 but I wanted wireless network for my laptop. Therefore I bought the Zyxel Prestige 660HW and a PCMCIA card: Zyxel ZyAir G160. After reading the manuals I swiftly installled the hardware and made the necessary configuration settings. This resulted in a lot of good things:


- My modem makes connection with my isp.



- All my aattached to the modem [the big ones -> wired, the laptop ->



wireless] do perfectly make connection to the internet



- All my PCs wired to the modem can see each other via the Lan



However:


- My laptop can NOT see my other PCs in my lan: I CAN ping to my modem/router, but I CANNOT ping to the PCs wired to the modem/router.



Hmmm,... this looks like a routing problem...



As far as I can see all the network settings are fine: they are in range and the masks are 255.255.255.0 and the gateway is set to the modem 10.0.0.138 on all PCs...



I must admit I don''t run a DHCP server, so all network settings are made by hand. The IP addresses I use are:



pc1: 10.0.0.150 pc2: 10.0.0.151 pc3: 10.0.0.152 laptop 10.0.0.160 modem 10.0.0.138



Perhaps can anyone share some light on my problems?



any help would be greatly appreciated.



Thanks in advance,



Hans


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If you have a software firewall, check its settings to allow for file and print sharing and/or place all of your networked pc's in the trusted zone.

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It's Windows Networking problem. Make sure ALL your computers are on the SAME 'workgroup' and have file sharing enabled (individual folders if you like). Regards, martin

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Hello,

Thank you for your quick response.

On all PCs no firewall software is running. In addition I can't even PING to another computer so windows file sharing / workgroup should not be the issue. [two pcs are running debian linux]

Somehow the ip packages are stopped at the router/modem.

Perhaps any other ideas?

Thanks again,

Hans

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Eureka!

Finally after hours of trying and searching on the internet I found a description about a similar problem with a prestige 650.

The solution is to go via telnet to the router [not the web interface!]. Go to general setup and make sure the bridge option is marked YES.

It now works like a dream...

Thank you all!

Cheers,

Happy Hans

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