Router--Router--Internet setup not working....

Hi Folks,

Hoping that someone here could please help.

I am trying to help a friend setup a home network. They connect to the
internet via a Belkin ADSL Modem which has a single ethernet port at
the back. I suppose you could call it a Single port router.

They got given a D-Link 4 port router with wifi (DI-524 from memory),
and this now sits between the PC (WinXP SP2) and the the Belkin ADSL
modem. They also have a laptop which connects via the wifi (Vista).

The internet appears to work intermittently, it will go for varying
lengths of time before you start to receive page cannot be displayed.

I have done the most basic of diagnosing when the connection went
down:

1. Could ping the D-Link on 192.168.0.1
2. Could ping the Belkin on 10.1.1.1
3. Could not ping a website, using the dns name or the IP (so it would
appear not to be a DNS issuse)
4. IPCONFIG showed the PC having a IP assigned

Pictorially, the wired PC setup looks like:

<PC>----<D-Link router/wifi>----<Belkin>----<Internet>

I think (will have to confirm this) that when the internet stops
working, I can plug the Belkin directly into the PC and it will work
again, so it appears to be some sort of issue between the Belkin and
the D-Link?

What other testing can I do?

Thanks in advance,

-Al

You need to login to the ADSL modem and set it's operational mode
to "Bridging". Then use the Router to select PPPOE and provide the
master account Username/Password of your ISP to login. As it stands
now you're using a double NAT (Network Address Translation) setup.

wrote in message

> Hi Folks,
>
> Hoping that someone here could please help.
>
> I am trying to help a friend setup a home network. They connect to the
> internet via a Belkin ADSL Modem which has a single ethernet port at
> the back. I suppose you could call it a Single port router.
>
> They got given a D-Link 4 port router with wifi (DI-524 from memory),
> and this now sits between the PC (WinXP SP2) and the the Belkin ADSL
> modem. They also have a laptop which connects via the wifi (Vista).
>
> The internet appears to work intermittently, it will go for varying
> lengths of time before you start to receive page cannot be displayed.
>
> I have done the most basic of diagnosing when the connection went
> down:
>
> 1. Could ping the D-Link on 192.168.0.1
> 2. Could ping the Belkin on 10.1.1.1
> 3. Could not ping a website, using the dns name or the IP (so it would
> appear not to be a DNS issuse)
> 4. IPCONFIG showed the PC having a IP assigned
>
> Pictorially, the wired PC setup looks like:
>
> <PC>----<D-Link router/wifi>----<Belkin>----<Internet>
>
> I think (will have to confirm this) that when the internet stops
> working, I can plug the Belkin directly into the PC and it will work
> again, so it appears to be some sort of issue between the Belkin and
> the D-Link?
>
> What other testing can I do?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -Al
>