User manual NETGEAR WGE111

[. . . ] User Manual for the NETGEAR WGE111 Wireless Game Adapter NETGEAR, Inc. 4500 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA 202-10007-02 Version v1. 1 2005. 03. 14 Technical Support Please refer to the support information card that shipped with your product. By registering your product at http://www. netgear. com/register, we can provide you with faster expert technical support and timely notices of product and software upgrades. E-mail: support@netgear. com Web site: http://www. netgear. com Statement of Conditions In the interest of improving internal design, operational function, and/or reliability, NETGEAR reserves the right to make changes to the products described in this document without notice. [. . . ] This problem also arises if you assigned a static IP Address within the range used by the DHCP server. If so, use another address NOT within the range used by the DHCP server. Be sure to observe the range and placement guidelines published in the Reference Manual. You did not specify the correct wireless game adapter IP address, or there could be a system problem. Check the suggestions below and also see "Troubleshooting the Web Configuration Interface" on page 5-6. · · Remove and reconnect the power to the wireless game adapter. Make sure your computer and the wireless game adapter are in the same subnet. 192. 168. 0. 202 is the WGE111 default IP address. · Troubleshooting 5-5 User Manual for the NETGEAR WGE111 Wireless Game Adapter Troubleshooting the TCP/IP Settings Using Ping The Windows ping utility sends an echo request packet to the designated device. You can ping the wireless game adapter from your computer to verify that the LAN path to your wireless game adapter is set up correctly. To ping the wireless game adapter from a PC running Windows 95 or later: 1. 2. From the Windows toolbar, click the Start button and select Run. In the field provided, type Ping followed by the IP address of the wireless game adapter, as in this example: ping 192. 168. 0. 202 3. Click OK. You should see a message like this one: Pinging <IP address> with 32 bytes of data If the path is working, you see this message: Reply from < IP address >: bytes=32 time=NN ms TTL=xxx If the path is not working, you see this message: Request timed out If the path is not functioning correctly, you could have one of the following problems: · Wrong physical connections -- Make sure the Status LED is on. · Wrong network configuration -- Verify that the IP address for your wireless game adapter and your workstation are correct and that the addresses are on the same subnet. Troubleshooting the Web Configuration Interface If you are unable to access the wireless game adapter's Web Configuration interface from a computer on your local network, check the following: · Check the Ethernet connection between the computer and the wireless game adapter as described in the previous section. Troubleshooting 5-6 User Manual for the NETGEAR WGE111 Wireless Game Adapter · Make sure your computer's IP address is not shown as 169. 254. x. x: Recent versions of Windows and Mac OS will generate and assign an IP address if the computer cannot reach a DHCP server. If your IP address is in this range, check the connection from the computer to the wireless game adapter and reboot your computer. If your wireless game adapter's IP address has been changed and you don't know the current IP address, clear the wireless game adapter's configuration to factory defaults. This will set the wireless game adapter's IP address to 192. 168. 0. 202. This procedure is explained in "Restoring the Default Configuration and Password" on page 5-7. Make sure that CAPS LOCK is off when entering this information. · · · If the wireless game adapter does not save changes you have made in the Web Configuration interface, check the following: · · When entering configuration settings, be sure to click the Apply button before moving to another menu or tab, or your changes are lost. The changes may have occurred, but the Web browser may be caching the old configuration. Restoring the Default Configuration and Password This section explains how to restore the factory default configuration settings, change the wireless game adapter's administration password to password and the IP address to 192. 168. 0. 202. You can erase the current configuration and restore factory defaults in two ways: · · Use the Restore function of the Web Configuration Manager (see "Restoring the Factory Defaults" on page 4-12). Use the Default Reset button on the rear panel of the wireless game adapter. [. . . ] Used in conjunction with the Transfer Control Protocol (TCP) to form TCP/IP. LAN A communications network serving users within a limited area, such as one floor of a building. local area network LAN. A communications network serving users within a limited area, such as one floor of a building. A LAN typically connects multiple personal computers and shared network devices such as storage and printers. Although many technologies exist to implement a LAN, Ethernet is the most common for connecting personal computers. MAC address The Media Access Control address is a unique 48-bit hardware address assigned to every network interface card. [. . . ]