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JABB
Original Poster
3,164 posts
105 months
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I have an airport and want a modem to add to it. I bought a Vigor 120 from ebay, but I have a feeling it may be duff as I can't get it working. ( It was cheap )
If I read the internet correctly, I just set the airport up and connect the vigor and away I should go.
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arcturus
1,322 posts
132 months
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Mmm, Draytek make some of the best kit going - but then again it came of ebay!!. I presume that you have entered your adsl username and password into the airport and haven't literally just plugged them together, turned them on and hoped for the best!! Some ISP's do need a minor config change in the Vigor 120
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JABB
Original Poster
3,164 posts
105 months
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I have all the log in detail on the airport. It seems to be set to 192.168.2.1 and I was expecting it to be 192.168.1.1 as the apple is on the 1 sub net. I was led to believe it was simple
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arcturus
1,322 posts
132 months
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See my link above. 192.168.2.1 is the default IP for the Vigor.
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arcturus
1,322 posts
132 months
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Unfortunately I have never setup an airport and the manual i have just downloaded is no use at all as it just says 'Run the utility on the supplied CD to set up your airport'.
I'm sure an airport expert will be along soon.....
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jrb43
324 posts
124 months
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This is worth persevering with. The airport extreme is an excellent router but it is fussy which modems it works with; particularly I think because Americans tend to have cable only and don't really understand ADSL. The Vigor is known to work fine. In my experience, the modem needs to be working before you introduce the router. I connected my laptop via ethernet to the modem. Login to the Vigor using its IP. Now, I ground to a halt for hours because the UI is so bad that I was selecting options THE OPPOSITE to the ones I wanted. I'm sorry, I'm away from my computer so I can't remember exactly what the problem was - it may have been the "enable" button or something for MPoA. Consider if that might be your problem too?! Once I'd figured that, connect to the ADSL and it was another 10s until I was online. Once you've got the modem working, save all the settings. Only then introduce the airport extreme. It reduces the permutation of settings you can get wrong. I'm on BE which has very different settings to other ISPs. Perhaps you (or the previous owner of the modem) are in a similar situation? http://www.draytek.co.uk/support/kb_vigor100_setup... is really all you need.
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JABB
Original Poster
3,164 posts
105 months
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Thanks for the link. I understand the Vigor is set on a 2 subnet.
If I connect the apple ( Which has always been on a 1 subnet ) to it, will the apple adopt the 2 or will I need to change one or the other?
The guide is still a little vague for a layman.
If I reset the apple to default, will it be set to provide internal ip address to every other device?
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