I just got a Obi110 and am doing the initial setup. I am plugging the obi into the ethernet cable from my cable modem, since I do not have a router yet, but it times out trying to add the device. I check the basic network status and it tells me my ip is not available.
Does this mean that the obi requires a router to function or is something else wrong?
The OBi should work connected directly to a cable modem. Did you power-cycle the cable modem after making the connection?
restarting the modem gave me an ip address, but adding the device still fails. Any other suggestions? Thanks!
Advanced network settings tells me that my dns server is not available and dialing **9222222222 tells me there is no service available.
I don't use the OBiTALK Web Portal, so I can't be a whole lot of help there. I prefer to configure the OBi locally so I'm not dependent on anything else.
If DHCP though the cable modem is getting an IP address, it should also be getting a DNS server address via DHCP. You could always manually configure one such as 4.2.2.1.
Thanks Ron! Since I now have the ip address, i logged into the obi device on my laptop, and manually set the dns server and now I can add the device. Thanks so much!