 Ip Address Showing 0.0.0.0 Or 169.254.x.x |
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  Feb 7 2008, 12:15 PM
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Member  Group: Members Posts: 23 Joined: 20-June 07 From: Birmingham UK Member No.: 137,925  |
on the laptop not working, i have typed in CMD in run and then ipconfig. this has shown me that i have an ip address of 0.0.0.0 or 169.254.130.70. and a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. my default gateway has no value against it. i have searched through many forums and have not found a solution yet, i was wondering if i can change the ip address to something in the range of 192.168.x.x but still have it set up to detect settings automatically in the tcp/ip settings. or is there a setting in the router index page i need to change to allow it to accept 169.254.0.0. thanks. |
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Feb 7 2008, 01:37 PM
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 Hail Groovicus! Group: Site Admin Posts: 6,454 Joined: 5-June 04 From: Vermillion, SD Member No.: 689 |
If you have not done anything special with router settings, try just resetting your router to the factory defaults first and see if that helps. There should be instructions in the manual that tells you how. Usually it is just a matter of holding in a button on the back of the router.
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 Feb 7 2008, 02:15 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 23 Joined: 20-June 07 From: Birmingham UK Member No.: 137,925 |
i done the suggested action and when i did the router would not find the internet connection again, so i reinstalled the router and it seems to be working ok now, i run the ipconfig and it has given me a valid ip address and default gateway. so your solution worked... sort of lol, thanks for your help.
This post has been edited by sleath: Feb 7 2008, 02:19 PM |
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Feb 7 2008, 02:51 PM
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 Visiting Alien Group: Members Posts: 5,140 Joined: 20-May 07 From: millenium falcon and rockytop Member No.: 131,963 |
power down the modem(if the router is seperate)
power down router this is called powercycling bring the modem back up after a minute or two wait another minute or two then power up router make sure all computers are set for automatically detect the correct command is ipconfig /all p2p programs play hell with routers -------------------- Chewy
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