Originally Posted by
cordelli
After I right-click the wireless icon in the taskbar and repair the connection, the gateway, DHCP server and DNS server addresses are all the 192.xxx for the Netgear router.
where the OP clearly stated that he was getting settings from the router.
I will stand by earlier post, the DNS settings should not be pointing to a router, but to a set of DNS servers someplace.
Like many routers, netgear routers give out their own IP address for DNS. They forward them to a nameserver on the WAN side. Or you can configure whatever you want to use in the router, for example, if you prefer to use opendns or something else than what the ISP provides. That way when your configuration changes from the ISP or you change it manually in the router, the clients continue to use the same local address.
My Linksys router, running DD-WRT does the same thing.
Code:
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.39(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
The only issue Fran was having was that DHCP was failing at startup. When DHCP was successful after Fran did a "repair", it was working fine.
The thread devolved somewhat on the topic of what IP address to use for the DNS server if Fran did, in fact, go the static method.
My off-topic comment wasn't directed specifically at you, Cordelli. It was directed at the thread. In other words, I didn't mean it to be personal. So I'll apologize for the off-topic comments.
Maybe sbm12 did a better job than I did in explaining all that in post #28.
-David