Hello everyone, this is Eddie the Magic Monk. Today we're going to show
you guys how to fix a problem that I've been having with my new router so I just
purchased this new router yesterday wireless and router so it's a pretty quick
wireless router so the problem that I have with it is that so this is my
computer and I've set the router up I've set up the Wi-Fi so that all my computer
devices at home can connect to it so if I connect to this with my computer and
just ignore the Chinese there for a second basically it means that I've
connected to the router and you can see here down the bottom right hand corner
it's got a connection icon and what this is saying is that there is no internet
ok internet is not available so if you go on the internet notice if I try to go
on Google right now nothing comes up ok it doesn't work the next thing I want to
show you is how the home network is set up I have two devices I have a wireless
router and I have an adsl2 plus modem now nowadays you can usually get them
both as one device ok so this is part of the problem why it's not working so if
you have a look at my router okay this is the new router that I've just
purchased these are the ports on the back of the router and you can see that
it has four lan lan ports and one wan port
so the wan port this line here is connected directly
to my modem. Now the problem with the modem is that it is not Wireless which
means that if I wanted to turn it into a wireless router
I need this device the problem that's occurring right now is that there is
internet on the modem and then the internet goes through my router but it
doesn't get through to my computer so how do we fix this well firstly let's
start configuring the router on our computer but what you need to do to get
to the router configuration page is firstly you need to go into command
prompt by typing CMD in the bottom left-hand corner of your windows and the
reason why you do that is because you can type in ipconfig /all and that shows
you all the network configuration
addresses on your computer right now you can see that the default gateway okay it
has two default gateways it has ten. 0.0.138 and it has 192.168.0.1
now a default gateway basically means where the IP address of the router now
what is the problem here well this is saying that there are two routers in
your house there are two routers in your house and each one of them is doing the
function of a router so how does that work
well if you have a look at my two devices I have a modem and I have a
wireless router now the modem is actually got a router function
built in okay because basically the function of a router is to
pass data between networks okay so the data packets are coming from the
network outside of your house to the network inside of your house so the
internet that so the modem is acting as a router and so is this router so
basically what we're about to do is to turn the router function in this router
off and only use the modem as the router and what we're also going to do is
basically have this router turned into a switch so what is a switch a switch
basically means that it gives this router additional ports okay it gives
this router how many ports does this modem have it
has one our Ethernet port and one USB port so originally this router can only
have two computers connected to it but with this additional switch okay I'm
going to show you how to turn this into a switch in a second it can have a lot
more computers connected to it because there are four ports at the back for
Ethernet connections and then it's got the wireless function as well to allow
even more computers to connect to this router but right now we want to turn the
router function off in this router so that this turns into just a switch okay
so let me show you how to do that so right now there are two addresses for
the IP address of the router okay and you have to try out each
one to see which device it is pointing to but let's try the 192.168.0.1
192.168.0.1 those I'm typing that in at the address bar at the top okay and now
it says login to your tp-link wireless N router so now I know that I'm I've
chosen the correct IP address so I'm going to login with this password
that should be provided to you in your user manual so log in to it and this is
my router page and to turn the router function off so that it becomes just a
switch is basically you go to the left where it says DHCP and you're going to
change this DHCP server from enable to disable okay so let me explain what DHCP
server means it means that it is the device it is the server responsible for
giving out IP addresses to all the computers on your network on your home
network so basically if you have a look at the two devices here this router this
modem ADSL2 plus modem already has DHCP server enabled on it
so therefore we turn the DHCP server off on this router and that will turn it
into just a switch
okay so before you do this and you click Save keep in mind that if you want to
see this page again you'll have to reset your wireless router back to DHCP server
mode and then you can see this page again so basically to reset it there's a
button usually a button in the back corner of your machine that says reset
and for this particular router you need to hold it down for eight seconds before
it resets back to factory settings in which case it'll have DHCP again so I'm
going to disable the DHCP server and I'm going to click Save
so click Save and it says the change of DHCP config will not take effect
until this device reboots so click OK
ok and then it says click here to reboot so I'm going to click here click this
button to reboot the device ok reboot it so now it is restarting
okay now I know this looks pretty scary but this actually means that it's turned
into a switch which is why if you try to get into the router settings page it
doesn't work because it is not the default gateway anymore
okay so what you're going to do now is on your wireless router where this blue
cable connects to your modem you're gonna move this blue cable take it out
and you're going to put it in one of the yellow ports okay because since your
ADSL modem is a router and your wireless device and you only want to use it as a
switch it is not responsible as a router so
therefore it is not passing the information from the internet to
computers on your network your router your ADSL modem is doing that okay so
you can't confuse it by putting the blue cable in the internet port in the wan
port so put it in one of your LAN ports and now this device is acting as a
switch not a router but the wireless network is still working okay so if you
have a look at my computer now on the bottom right hand corner it says that
I'm connected to the wireless network with the Internet okay so if I try to go
on the internet now and I put in Google I put in Google it's working
okay thanks for watching the video guys hope this has been useful to you see you
next time.