Using 2 laptops on a LAN

[me(who else?)]

I recently had a buddy of mine over to play some games over my wireless LAN. Turns out we both have identical laptops . Anyways, when he turned on his W-LAN card, neither of our connections worked. His computer said there was an IP address conflict, so I ipconfig /release ipconfig /renew ed a few times on both machines, to no avail. This isn't an imediate concern, but it might get hairy if I don't fix it (especially if I decide to have a LAN party :dead: ). Thanks in Advance.

 

[RealBlackStuff]

Look in your network settings. Most likely you will find that both your laptops have 192.168.0.1 as IP-address, and 255.255.255.0 as subnet. Even the Default Gateway may be the same!
The IP's should be different like 0.1 and 0.2 in the end.

Also, to connect 2 PCs/laptops only, you will need a different cat5-cable, not the normal straight/patch cable but a cross-over cable.

Finally, you will need to enter each other's UserID/password in the User-area and make shared HD etc. available.

 

[me(who else?)]

How can Ichange my network settijngs? Like I said, i tried disconnecting and reconmnecting and releasing my IP address and refreshing it, but my router still assigns both laptops the same IP. As for wiring laptops, I plug 2 Cat5 cables into my router (it has 4 slots to plug in CAT5 cables, as well as a wireless transmitter).

 

[Didou]

Check your router settings. Maybe it has been set to allocate only one IP at a time.

 

[me(who else?)]

Uh-oh!

There's only one problem...I can't remember the password for my router. I think I know the password, but I can't remeber what the default user's name is. I had the password saved in my Netscape password manager, but I had to wipe my cache to fix a problem I was having. Does anybody have a D-LINK, or do they know how I can reset the software on the router?

 

[RealBlackStuff]

Everybody knows that the default login and password for a D-link is "admin" and no password.

If you never changed that, you are asking to be hacked!

 

[me(who else?)]

I changed the password and I set up an another account on it, but I couldn't remember the username. Now I just gotta figure out which pass I used.

edit: I got it. Unfortunately, I don't see any settings which control how many laptops could be connected wirelessly. It has a setting for channels, will that work(right now it's set to 6),or will it improve my preformance to change it?

 

[Didou]

Is there an option to set the IP range of allocated adresses ? Something that would allow you to allocate IPs from 192.168.0.2 -> 192.168.0.6 for example.

 

[me(who else?)]

Nope, nothing like that...the setup is a very basic web based interface...all the LAN came with was an instruction manual disk and the router, which has the setup software loaded into it.

 

[RealBlackStuff]

For a full range of all sorts of LAN-connecting, see:
http://www.homenethelp.com/

 

[lowman]

Can you verify that both laptops are set up to receive a dynamic IP address, instead of having a static one assigned? You could try assigning an address on the default segment to each laptop (different ones of course) and see if that alleviates the problem.

 

[me(who else?)]

The dymanic IP address might work...how do I set that? Right now it says my IP is assigned by DHCP.

 

[young&wild]

Originally posted by realblackstuff
default login and password for a D-link is "admin" and no password.

Username:admin
Password:admin