Airlink RT210W user manual Configuring Local Computer to Access the Wireless Router

3 Configuring Local Computer to Access the Wireless Router

This chapter describes how to configure a computer for initial connection to the device.

3.1 Overview

To access the Wireless Broadband Router’ s Web-based Configuration Utility, at least one properly configured PC must be connected to the device and reside on the same subnet with the Wireless Broadband Router. The easiest way to make the connection is attaching your host computer’ s network card directly to the LAN port of the device.

Whatever your connection method is, the computer’ s Ethernet /wireless interface must be on the same subnet as the router. As the Wireless Broadband Router is configured with these default values:

∙IP address: 192.168.1.1

∙Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0

∙DHCP server: Enabled with the IP address pool from 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.150.

So you should set up your NIC or wireless adapter’ s TCP/IP settings as one of the following:

1.To use dynamic IP: Set your PC to be DHCP client to accept the dynamic IP from the router’ s DHCP server.

2.To use static IP: Set the IP address as 192.168.1.x (x is between 2 and 254), subnet mask as 255.255.255.0 and the gateway as 192.168.1.1

The default TCP/IP setting for Windows is acting as a DHCP client. Please proceed to the next section to verify or, if necessary, to configure the TCP/IP settings.

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