I have managed to connect the adsl modem/router Hinet gave me to my wireless router so I can enjoy access anywhere at home.
I also forwarded ports on my wireless router so I could use bittorrent etc.
However I still can’t access bittorent due to the NAT settings on my Hinet CT-562C adsl modem/router. I can’t for the life of me figure out how to connect to this device. I tried 192.168.1.1 and a range of other addresses but I get jack. I’ve also tried connecting directly with RJ45 to port 1 but nothing.
Is there a webserver on this device? Am I going about this the right way? I’m pretty sure both devices need port forwarding enabled to use the likes of bittorrent.
Here’s my network layout if it helps:
HINET ADSL MODEM/ROUTER -> WIRELESS ROUTER -> MY PC
There should be a webserver. Every home router I can think of has one. Maybe it’s an old that has only telnet; it’s probably not a higher end one with ssh.
is your IP address 192.168.1 dot something? Probably Windows? Try start run, type “cmd”, when you get the window, type ipconfig (/all). You’ll see your IP and the router/gateway address. Try that in the browser. Most likely 192.168.something.1
Whatever your PCs address, forward ports to it. You could also set it up at the DMZ (demilitarized zone) server. a DMZ is usually a seperate part of a network where public servers ride. Companies will place web servers there and secure those off from everything sensitive in the company. A home routers DMZ setting will automatically forward all incoming traffic to one computer. An easy setting to use if you PC firewall is secured, blocking any unwanted traffic there. Block the unwanted traffic at your network router/firewall or your PC firewall.
Home routers also have something called UPnP, Universal Plug and Play. Some network programs, like Azureus can auto configure your router. Maybe not secure if you’re concerned with viruses that can use UPnP to auto open your firewall to the world.
hope that’s kinda clear. these days I don’t even understand myself
Thanks for your help. I tried running a DMZ but it didn’t seem to work.
I can connect to wireless router over 192.168.1.1 but I can’t jump the next step and connect to my adsl modem / router.
How can I find the IP address of my modem/router if it is beyond my wireless router?
Or am I being a complete idiot. Do i need to bother configuring my hinet modem/router at all?
You are not an idiot. The people who’ve been in computers are idiots. They are very smart indeed to have created everything we have. But they were not start enough to make it easy for us. Like the person who helped invent the internet. He’s now trying to get it to work across planets. And who knows what else he’s doing at his new company, Google. Is it thinking about how all of this, the whole big picture, needs to be invisible to all of us? I hope so.
Are we still manually cranking our cars to get them to start? 100 years ago we would have. not anymore. Someday computers will be much much better. thank goodness. Til then, we have to live with it or help make it better.
Many of the most important people that have contributed to computer science use Macs. They were there in the beginning 20 or more years ago. Now they just want something easy to use. Me too. After 20+ of using computers, my daily computer use is pretty much just Mac. Is it as easy as it will be someday? definitely not. and the rest of technology? Networks, wireless what do you call those things, printers, or anything you need to connect together? Not even close.
But for now, there are people out there who are really trying. They’re building the future of technology to benefit us all. And they’ll make it fun and enjoyable for us all.
The internet works and you’re just trying to get bittorrent working?
Sounds like you can connect to the router since you can setup a DMZ. Somewhere there you can find DHCP settings. DHCP is a term that describes how computers can be automatically setup to work with other devices by plugging them in. At work, you can normally plugin and your’re up.
DHCP would have given your computer some address. 192.168.1.something. You want to tell the wireless router/firewall that’s protecting you to let some things in, bittorrent in your case. So you tell it to which address it should forward some traffic.
DHCP is dynamic. That means whenever you connect wirelessly, there’s a chance your computer will have a different address. The trick is to get your computer to always use one address. The easiest way is to get your wireless router to always give you the same one. What you want is a static DHCP address. You tell the router your mac address (that’s kinda like a network card serial number). Map your mac address to a static DHCP address. ugh.
That page recommends you configure your computer to use one particular address. You’re using a notebook? A slight modification of those settings would be the easiest long term setup.
The only thing that changes is you do not configure an IP address for your computer. That would require you to change it each time you go to a different network? Home? change. anywhere else like a cafe? change.
A slight change in setup will make it easier to use afterwards. Configure the router to always give you on address. Looks like it’s in the BOOTP/DHCP Relay List of DHCP Entries page. Add an entry, a number like 192.168.1.whatever is in the range. If the range is 2 or 10-254, any number in there. 10 is a nice round one. Set the lease to be forever and ever.
Thanks for both of your help. It was a just a case (as Andre said) of connecting directly to my router.
I had to change my IP to 192.168.1.8 and then connect to 192.168.1.1. It came up with a password but I found a site on the net that said most hinet routers have the following login
login: cht
pass: chtnadsl (you can also sub the “n” for “c” or “s”)
then it was just a case of forwarding the ports again
Congrats. If you ever wish to move your notebook is it to another place like a cafe, school, or office, changing your address back to being dynamically assigned, DHCP, will get you work there. Or get a static DHCP going and you’ll be really special.
could be a bad router. I’ve seen many other routers have problems here with P2P software, perhaps too many connections. Though one I’ve tried works fine when you DMZ instead of port forward.
If they’re temp dropouts, it could be 2.4ghz radio interference.
Try setting up your computer to be in the DMZ. And follow the instructions I gave you earlier. A static DHCP is a much better setup that what you had before.
the dmz setting on a home router forwards all traffic to one computer. it’s cool if you have a firewall on your computer. Disable all unecessary ports. Then you should be fine.
