IP and DNS Change After Restart

What does the IP address and DNS address change to when you restart?

Steve

Hi Steve,

After a restart, here are the changed values:

IP: 192.168.1.101

Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1

DNS: 216.148.227.68

Thanks for your help.

Phil

This looks normal.  What do they change to after doing a winipcfg release renew?  This is only on the computer that connects wirelessly, correct?  Are you possibly picking up someone elses wireless network?

Steve

I checked the site survey now that the PC appears to be working normally again, and it still shows both the router and the adapter as available wireless connections.  Perhaps they have both been there all along.  

Phil

Earlier today on the PC startup, the load of the wireless adapter failed.  I shutdown and restarted.  This time the adapter loaded correctly AND the IP addresses were as expected. Everything looked and functioned normally.

Your question about picking up another network is an interesting one. I don't think this was happening due to my geographic location. However, for the week or so that I was experiencing this problem, I noticed that the adapter's monitor software was showing 2 networks in its site survey - my router (listed by the SSID I assigned to it) and another network which looked like the adapter itself (listed as 'Linksys').  Since the load failure and restart today, the site survey again shows only my router.

Phil

Note that the default network SSIDs are often just the manufacturer of the router.  Thus, if there is someone else in your area with a Linksys router, that wireless network may have an SSID of Linksys (In my neighborhood, I sometimes pick up a Netgear network and D-Link network because my neighbors with these routers have not changed their SSID fromt the default.  You should give your router a new SSID other than the default name, and you may be able to sort this out.   Hiding your own SSID is also usually a good idea from a security point of view. 

Steve

I don't know which utility you are using to see the netweorks.  I use Microsoft Wireless Zero Configuration, and the only thing I see are the available networks (routers, access points, etc.) I don't see individual wireless network cards.

Steve

Thanks for the security tip.  I changed my SSID immediately after installing the router and disabled broadcast of the SSID in addition to other security measures (MAC filtering, admin password change, disabled remote administration, etc.). 

Perhaps the Linksys SSID displayed on my site survey is a neighbor's as you hypothesized. The signal strength for that device is considerably weaker than my router - usually no more than 10-15%.  I'll check with my neighbors. 

If it is a neighbor's router, and I connected to it, that would explain the different assigned IP addresses. However, the connection tab on the adapter's utility always indicated that I was connected to my own network - even diring th period of unexected IPs.  By the way, the IP addresses look good again today.

In the site survey displayed through my adapter utility, does the adapter itself produce a signature or do the networks listed indicate only routers in the vicinity?

Thanks again for you help.

Phil