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HOW TO FIND MY IP, WHEN IM OFFLINE (Read 353 times)
Aug 13th, 2006 at 5:49pm

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im trying to help my dad connect to our router, but the router needs to know his IP  and he cant connect to the internet, so he cant go on sites like www.whatismyipadress.com or use the start/run/cmd/ ipconfig

so, are there any offline techniques for this? thanks and i had no idea where to put this topic, it didnt really fit anywhere
 
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Reply #1 - Aug 14th, 2006 at 2:48am

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Don't you have to assign an IP? What I mean is it sounds like you're setting up a network. It depends on what type of network you're creating; Home Network or LAN/WAN network.
Also, on many Dial-Up networks the IP address is dynamic. It changes each time you connect.
 
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Reply #2 - Aug 14th, 2006 at 7:35am

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well, the home network is already set up (with 1 laptop connected wirelessly) and im just trying to add to the network

im using a Corega COR-BAR-AWLA-54 router which can do LAN and it even says WLAN ???
 
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Reply #3 - Aug 14th, 2006 at 2:51pm

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WLAN is Wireless LAN. However all you need to do is connect to your router via wireless or wired. Its a router, so it assigns IPs.

You can check your IP by going to

Start > Run > CMD > ipconfig/all

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Reply #4 - Aug 14th, 2006 at 3:49pm

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hmm i thought it was wide-local area network.... i tried that ipconfig thing already and i only got a list of the routers in the area
 
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Reply #5 - Aug 14th, 2006 at 9:15pm

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Well if your trying to wirelessly connect to your router then all you need to do is go into the Wireless Connection settings on the lappy or whatever and select your router from the list.

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Reply #6 - Aug 16th, 2006 at 2:50am
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If it's a network, don't you type in 127.0.0.1 or something Cheesy?
 
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Reply #7 - Aug 16th, 2006 at 9:03am

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Actually if its a router with the defult settings its

192.168.1.1

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Reply #8 - Aug 16th, 2006 at 9:06am

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Well if your trying to wirelessly connect to your router then all you need to do is go into the Wireless Connection settings on the lappy or whatever and select your router from the list.

Cheers
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the router is protected from un-allowed internet acess, so thats why i need to find the laptop's IP so i can tell the router that the laptop is friendly (and wont bite Grin)
 
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Reply #9 - Aug 16th, 2006 at 6:26pm
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Cameron, how do you know everything?  Roll Eyes

Alex  Grin
 
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Reply #10 - Aug 16th, 2006 at 8:15pm

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the router is protected from un-allowed internet acess, so thats why i need to find the laptop's IP so i can tell the router that the laptop is friendly (and wont bite Grin)


In Windows XP, click run and then "cmd" and then OK. A black box will open. At the prompt (C:> or something like it) type "ipconfig" and hit the enter key. This will show you your computer's IP address for each network device (such as an ethernet card and wireless card, or modem) as well as other settings if you are connected to a network. In the event that you are connected to a network, the IP address will be the internal address on your network. Likely something like 192.168.x.x.

 
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Reply #11 - Aug 16th, 2006 at 10:18pm

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Theres a better way than IP limiting. Its called WEP Wink Use that, a 128bit encription is just as good.

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Reply #12 - Aug 18th, 2006 at 11:56pm
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Quote:
Actually if its a router with the defult settings its

192.168.1.1

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depends on the router.. some netgear routers are 192.168.0.1
 
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Reply #13 - Aug 19th, 2006 at 12:07am
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the router is protected from un-allowed internet acess, so thats why i need to find the laptop's IP so i can tell the router that the laptop is friendly (and wont bite Grin)




Just bring up the wireless configuration on the remote computer and it will show you the available networks in range.. Sometimes you can pick up you neighbors WIFI however it should show the wireless network in the configuration screen, from there you need to tell the system to connect and it will ask you for the WEP key (password). Assuming you have a proper signal, that’s all it should need because the wireless NIC should interface with the router for protocol and type.  

If it does not automatically have that information (which is rare on today’s hardware) you will need to find out what protocol the router is transmitting (WEP Personal, etc) and set the NIC on the remote computer up to receive it.  

Note, finding the IP in wireless (i.e.; IPCONFIG) is useless because the DCHP server on the router assigns that IP automatically when a system connects to it... unless the router has been set to MANUAL and requires each system be assigned the right numbers in the ROUTER and remote system config. (which would be silly unless that type of setup is needed)

If you are manuall setting up a network, you don't FIND your IP, you assign your IP for both the remote system and the router with the CORRECT DNS server and gateway IP's

DNS server is the default setup for a router and it does not allow manual entries.. Windows needs to be set to "automatic" with blank IP and DNS server entries for automatic DNS server use.
 
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Reply #14 - Aug 24th, 2006 at 10:02am

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yeh, i thought it should ask you to enter a password, but it just tries connecting straight off

and to everyone out there

i have already tried the cmd method!!!!!!!!!
 
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