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No WAN IP on Router? [mostly solved]
BoomShake
The EngineerColumbia, MDRegistered User regular
The EngineerColumbia, MDRegistered User regular
So my router's been happilly chugging along, no problems at all. I wake up this morning, check my mail, go take a shower. Back from the shower, I notice I can't go anywhere on the net. Checking the router page, I see that it's attempting to renew the WAN IP. I didn't think much of it considering the residential internet here at RU can be pretty crappy. When I get back from class in the afternoon and see it still trying to renew, and my roommate is connecting, I know there's a problem. After calling the help desk, I ended up just having them reregister me with my laptop so I can have a way to the outside world. I can't figure out why the router isn't finding a connection.
Linksys WRT54GL w/ Tomato 1.23 firmware
Tried:
1. powercycling
2. redoing the cables
3. checking lights (the WAN light does come on when plugged in)
4. hard reset to default config
5. clearing NVRAM
6. cloning the MAC to my laptop (after they registerd it) incase their entry for my router had been fubar'd
7. manually releasing and renewing several times
I just don't know what I could try anymore. I'm really hoping it's not the hardware that's done for; I just replaced a RRoD xbox and don't feel like dropping more money. Any suggestions, oh wonderful H/A?
Linksys WRT54GL w/ Tomato 1.23 firmware
Tried:
1. powercycling
2. redoing the cables
3. checking lights (the WAN light does come on when plugged in)
4. hard reset to default config
5. clearing NVRAM
6. cloning the MAC to my laptop (after they registerd it) incase their entry for my router had been fubar'd
7. manually releasing and renewing several times
I just don't know what I could try anymore. I'm really hoping it's not the hardware that's done for; I just replaced a RRoD xbox and don't feel like dropping more money. Any suggestions, oh wonderful H/A?
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But then it dawned on me. Connect the laptop, write down the IP, subnet, DNS info, and enter that manually into the router. Lo and behold, it works. The laptop was also taking a little while to get connectivity when the cable was removed and put back in, going through one or two IPs before getting to the correct assigned one. I think the residential place is having some dhcp issues.