wireless??

Question

Hey I need help with my wireless network…how do I get the default gateway??

Answer 1

If your useing a wireless router, it should push out your default gateway to any DHCP client. If you are not useing DHCP, then the default gateway would be the ip address of your router.

Answer 2

The default gateway is the IP address of your wireless router. If you're currently connected to your wireless network click on start, run. in the run box type cmd and hit enter. In the black window that comes up type ipconfig and hit enter. This will tell you your default gateway. More often than not, it's 192.168.2.1 or 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1. Those are typically the default addresses for the default gateway.

Answer 3

Your quesiton is vague.

Are you asking about the WAN side of your router or are you asking about the LAN devices you wish to connect to your Wireless Access Point?

Let's talk about the WAN side of your router first -

If you have a dynamic IP address from your ISP configure the router for a dynamic IP address. The router will obtain the IP address automatically (along with subnet mask, default gateway and DNS). Select 'dynamic ip' or similar selection from the options for WAN config.

If you have a static IP from your ISP, they will have given you the IP, subnet mask, default gateway, and DNS. Select 'static ip' or similar selection from the options for WAN config and fill in the respective addresses.

Now for the LAN side of your wireless router. I suggest you use DHCP to provide IP addresses, subnet mask, default gateway, and DNS to the LAN devices. Set the router LAN IP at 192.168.x.1 where the subnet is 192.168.x.0/24 (means you are using a LAN IP in the form 192.168.x.y where x can be any number from 0 - 255 but is always the same on your LAN and y is any number from 1 - 255 and no 2 devices on your LAN has the same y value; subnet mask is 255.255.255.0. I suggest that you make the DHCP y range run from 20 - 255 and save the 2 - 19 for static devices.

For all LAN devices set them for dynamic IP address and dynamic DNS and the router will provide these values.

If you need a static LAN IP it should be in the format 192.168.x.a where a is not in the dynamic range (anywhere from 2 - 19 in my example and no 2 have the same value of a). For static LAN IP the default gateway and the DNS is the router LAN IP of 192.168.x.1 in my example.