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Got myself a new wireless router

Slightly more than 3 weeks ago, while on holiday out of town, my house was struck by a lighting. The damage:

• An ADSL Modem
• A Wireless Router (D-Link DI524)
• A Samsung 21″ TV
• A Philips DVD Player
• An aircond
• 3 light bulbs

I managed to get the Modem to be replaced by my ISP a couple of days after that. Yesterday, I bought myself a ZyXEL P-320W V2 Wireless Router. The configuration wasn’t that smooth. My notebook just couldn’t log into the configuration page. I couldn’t even ping to 192.168.1.1 (which is the default IP for the router).

The router gave me a 169.xx.xx.xx something IP with subnet mask of 255.255.0.0. Reset the damn router a couple of times, did a couple of ipconfig /renew and /flushdns on my notebook, but it didn’t work. 2am, I went to bed.

Woke up at 5.50am this morning. First thing I did was to set a fixed IP 192.168.1.33, subnet mask 255.255.255.0, Gateway and DNS 192.168.1.1. And… finally managed to connect to the router configuration page. Did all the usual setup (SSID, WPA key, etc.). All done within 10 minutes.

And now, my house is wirelessly connected again.