Wireless Broadband Router User Manual

Check/Renew IP Address under Windows 2000/XP

The following steps help you to verify whether the network adapter gets an IP address within the DHCP IP pool range (192.168.1.100 ~ 192.168.1.150 by default) of the router. If not, you may need to renew the IP information.

Step 1 Click Run from the Start menu to open the Run dialog box.

Step 2 Type cmd in the dialog box and then click OK.

Step 3 At DOS command prompt, type ipconfig to see the IP information from DHCP server.

Step 4 If you want to get a new IP address, type ipconfig /release to release the previous IP address and then type ipconfig /renew to get a new one.

3.3 Additional Settings for Wireless Client

If you choose to access the router via a wireless client, also verify the following:

1.Make sure your PC is equipped with 802.11g or 802.11b wireless adapter and has appropriate WLAN card driver/utility and TCP/IP installed.

2.Set the wireless adapter to use appropriate TCP/IP settings as described in previous section.

3.Launch the wireless adapter’ s provided utility and verify that your wireless client is configured with these settings:

Operation Mode: Infrastructure

SSID: wireless

Authentication: Open

WEP Mode: Disabled

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Airlink RT210W user manual Additional Settings for Wireless Client, Check/Renew IP Address under Windows 2000/XP