OBiwifi Wireless Adapter
Mack002:
When I look at the Obi network configuration settings, could you tell me what I should be looking for?
drgeoff:
Quote from: Mack002 on March 17, 2014, 04:19:07 pm
When I look at the Obi network configuration settings, could you tell me what I should be looking for?
When you dial ***1 your OBi is telling you that DHCP is disabled which means it isn't automatically getting valid IP address settings from your router. While it is possible that whatever IP address the device does have is within the subnet range of the router there could be problems such as:
1. It has the same IP address as another device on your network.
2. The gateway address isn't that of your router. Symptoms are that you'd be able to communicate between the OBi and other devices on your LAN but the OBi would not communicate with anything on the WAN.
3. The DNS server address might not be pointing to a DNS server. (Typically your router). Symptoms again are that the OBi cannot communicate with named sites/servers on the WAN because it doesn't get the IP numbers of those sites/servers.
Almost always the router address (which you need to put in the OBi gateway and DNS server fields if DHCP is not enabled) ends with 1 or 254. Check with the router documentation if necessary.
Probably easier just to enable DHCP :)
Mack002:
Today I got a wired (DSL) internet connection. Obi works well. On dialing ***1, it gives the IP address and says DHCP is ENabled. Recall that DHCP was DISabled using the ObiWifi. I made no setting changes to the Obi. Is it correct behavior for the Obi to have DHCP ENabled using an ethernet connection and DISabled when using OBiwifi - without settings changes?
drgeoff:
Quote from: Mack002 on March 18, 2014, 02:48:56 pm
Today I got a wired (DSL) internet connection. Obi works well. On dialing ***1, it gives the IP address and says DHCP is ENabled. Recall that DHCP was DISabled using the ObiWifi. I made no setting changes to the Obi. Is it correct behavior for the Obi to have DHCP ENabled using an ethernet connection and DISabled when using OBiwifi - without settings changes?
If you look at http://obihai.com/OBiDeviceAdminGuide and search for the phrase 'A screenshot of the WiFi Settings device page is shown below' you will see that DHCP is the default.
Mack002:
:) :) :) :) :)
drgeoff, Thank You.
Indeed somehow that setting for the ObiWiFi got changed to Static. It all makes sense now, except for how it got changed. Obi works with the ObiWiFi now. Your replies to my questions have been both patient and thorough. Thanks again.
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