2 wire DSL

[Karl F. Larsen]

Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> --- On Sat, 12/6/08, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> From: Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: 2 wire DSL
>> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Date: Saturday, December 6, 2008, 8:25 AM
>> To make sure I was accurate I connected to my DSL router
>> made by 
>> Actiontec with Firefox. On my system I use
>> "http://192.168.0.1" and that 
>> gets me connected to the router.
>>
>>     I went to the Main page and discovered that my current
>> IP address is:
>>
>> 216.31.109.146
>>
>> and my Gateway is
>>
>> 216.31.108.1
>>
>> and the LAN is 192.168.0.1 as the local Gateway.
>>
>>     The LAN has 4 ports and I am using just 2 of them.
>>
>>
>>     I then opened a terminal and typed ping 216.31.108.1
>>
>> and it was perfect. Then I pinged 192.168.0.1 and that was
>> perfect.
>>
>>
>>     The fellow having a problem pinging his DSL must need
>> to check what 
>> his REAL ip numbers are and then try to ping those :-)
>>
>>     It it is working then the ping has to work too.
>>
>>     
>
> Thank you Karl so much.  But if you read my posts closely you will see that I can't connect to my router as you did in your first sentence.  I get an error message saying: 
> Unable to connect         
>
> Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at 192.168.1.254.
>   

    I think you should be using 192.168.0.1 and at least try that. It 
has been the Standard for a lot of years. Your
192.168.1.254 looks weird to me :-)

    There are a lot of better numbers.

Karl



> Once I get past that problem, I wont have a problem.
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
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