Ethernet wall jack to wireless router in university?

I am living in a university apartment building, and we have an ethernet jack that works if you plug a cord directly into your computer. However, when I try to plug that cord into a wireless router, I cannot get internet (either when I connect to the router wirelessly, or when I connect to it via another ethernet cord). I believe the university has a T1 line if that matters, but if anyone has any idea how to fix this, let me know.

For the record, I have tried two wireless routers: a Netgear WGT624 v2 and the v3 of the same model; both are 108 mbps

 

Did u try configuring the router? By logging into it.....

 

some school networks restrict the use of routers because it can screw with the routers in place, at least thats the excuse they give. but as the last poster said, you probably need to go into configuration and change some settings.

to get to the settings go to http://192.168.0.1 The Login window will be prompting for a Username and Password. The default Username is admin and the default Password is password

That should work for both Netgear routers. You can try changing some settings around, though I am not sure what needs to be changed.

Alternatively if you don't need wireless and you just want additional ports for other computers/game systems you should get a Switch instead of a router. A switch will just add extra ports without interfering with the network

 

^^^It should be just like setting up any first time config. router. You will want to configure 1) The router's WAN IP address...I guess you will want to use Automatic Config. in this case. 2) Configure ur Local IP address range etc., and 3) Configure security on the router..such as encryption like WPA.

 

You may also want to clone the MAC address of your computer into the router so that the network doesn't see a "foreign" MAC address that it doesn't recognize.

 

Umm, I already auto configured it, it just wouldn't work. Thanks for the attempts anyways.

 

Perhaps instead of a router, per se, you should try a simple wireless access point.

 

What do you mean?

 

when your pc is hooked up directly do a cmd ipconfig/all and see what comes up...maybe you'll find some settings useful for the router...do a screenie and post the ipconfig/all...see if you get any help from that angle

edit: another thought...have you tried disabling DHCP in the router...and making it a dummy wireless switch...

 

The wireless isn't the issue, as I can't even use it as an ethernet hub.

 

Okay please don't take this the wrong way...i'm just tryna help, but i'm convinced ur doing something wrong in configuring the router. Now I don't have any experience w/ netgear routers but I do have experience w/ setting up routers and i've been frustrated w/ them as well.

I suggest, first resetting the router, and re-configuring it properly. I don't see why ur situation wouldn't work w/ the router. Now:-

1) Plug in the line from the wall to the Internet port of the router.

2) Log into the router, and configure the WAN (Internet) IP setting to Automatic Configuration. Let the school's dhcp server hand u an IP address. (for starters)

3) Configure ur Local IP address and the dhcp IP range. You can use 192.168.1.1 as the Local IP address. And assign a dhcp range according to the amount of computers that would need to connect to the router.

4) Configure some security on the thing..like WPA and MAC filtering.

If ur still having issues...get a Linksys!

 

Figured it out, with help from this thread a bit. Thanks muchly.

Just fyi, what I did was connect a computer into the ethernet jack and run ipconfig /all to get settings. Then I connected to the wireless router, and changed it from automatic to the settings I obtained before. Bingo presto.

Big props to A#1 for help on that.

 

My first guess is that the jack is connected to a router. So you are connecting a router to another router, which is not an issue, just ask the IT group the appropriate setup for your router. If the university router has MAC filtering then you will never be able to get anything, so talk to the IT group.

 

umm...he fixed it wireless

 

Somehow I was working on the previous page, I guess because I was reading, so when I finally posted, it brought me to the last page and I realized he fixed it

Thank you makaveli!