So your PIX-LINK is not sending out a wifi access point signal ? The ethernet cable has to be between your Dell PC and the PIX-LINK. ! Maybe you should check your Dell PC ethernet port, by connecting it to the Netgear LAN port (cable between Netgear and Dell PC, don't forget to disconnect the wifi). At least that one should connect.Hi bpwl, and thanks for your replies yesterday. I've just done the following:
1. A factory reset on the PIX-LINK extender (MAC No: 00:E0:20:7C:21:85; S/N: 2020418542M; PIN No: 81350452) in the way you requested, and then connected it via the ethernet cable to the LAN port before checking my system tray WiFi, but it listed no Wireless-N signal briadcast at all! I then looked at my Netgear genie page, Attached Devices but it only showed my Dell Latitude connected & no LAN connection.
OK , but nowhere you mention a Mikrotik device. So far I only know about a Netgear, a PIX-LINK and a Dell PC.2, I then managed to find a copy of Winbox on the MikroTik software webpage & tried to save the file to my downloads, having created a new MikroTik folder, but it didn't appear to let me do so? Instead it opened a webpage online & asked me to 'connect to' ---- presumably a URL I have to enter, but I didn't know which one to try?
I hope the cable is between the PIX-LINK LAN port and the ethernet connector on the Dell Lattitude PC, If it worked for the Netgear connection it should work here as well.
3. So, I then did an 'arp -a' and got the attached jpg below, hoping it might show an IP Address & MAC Address for the LAN connected PIX-LINK but it doesn't appear to do so?
I obviously have not done the right action, have I? Please suggest the next step? Should I leave the PIX-LINK ethernet cable LAN connected to my laptop or to my router?
Regards,
Brian
What software? WinBox itself? WinBox is just a configuration tool for RouterOS powered devices. You cannot use it for anything else.2. The only Winbox facility on the MikroTik webpage I downloaded was software
Your repeaters (02-09-5b) are not known in the website.
ARP is not the ultimate test. First of all did you get an IP address on your ethernet card of the PC? (Or are you setting a static IP address yourselves?)Thanks, bpwl, & as I stated in my last post, I disconnected my WiFi & switched off my AV protection & Firewall, before doing the ping tests. The first arp check was before that, but the last one was whilst disconnected.
I did a quick check on the MAC recognition website of the original known MAC address for the PIX-LINK & for 192.168.1.5 but received 'Not Found' for both!
Regards,
Brian
Please Brian, do some thinking as well, not just reading. Your ethernet IP address cannot be used to connect to the PIX-LINK it is in the wrong subnet. Please adjust !!! This is windows settings.Thanks, bpwl, and you were of course right that I had not completely switched off my wireless, only disconnected it. I should have also switched off the WiFi switch at the bottom of the system tray, wireless pop-up which I have just done as well, and after switching off my Kaspersky protection, I cable connected the PIX-LINK LAN port to my laptop & powered up the device. I then did another 'arp -a' & 'IP Config' check on the device and obtained the two jpgs below, which are obviously more correct. It tells me there is no connection to the Wirless-N device - so, have I bricked it up? My laptop I suppose is LAN 10 & 192.168.137.1 ?
PC connected to the PIX-LINK LAN port. Should be clear that's the only way this can work.The ethernet cable has to be between your Dell PC and the PIX-LINK. Both devices must have an IP address in the same subnet. Easiest way to do this is having the IP address to be assigned by DHCP (dynamic IP).
This was just in case, and only in case, there was no DHCP IP address coming from the PIX-LINK. Netgear in the WAN interface, PC in the LAN interface, that's what was here: Netgear LAN <---> WAN port PIX-LINK LAN port <---> Dell PCIn your earlier reply you said this for a test: "Full connection should then be: "Netgear LAN <---> WAN port PIX-LINK LAN port <---> Dell PC". As you are aware, the PIX-LINK device has two ports: an Ethernet & a LAN. Did you therefore mean in the quote above: 'a cable from my router LAN1 port (or LAN2/WAN?) to the LAN port on the PIX-LINK device, as well as a cable from the other ethernet port on the PIX-LINK device to the ethernet/LAN port on my laptop'? If so, what check did you then suggest I do?
I was not logged in, and don't have an account there.I assume the reason why I did not receive TECNOMEN OY (now TECTREE!) was because I had not registered with the MAC website?
Hi Brian,Furthermore, I have just checked the IP & DHCP settings status for the Wireless-N device & my laptop (which was the only cabled physical connection made in both of the latest tests & jpgs) and they all were already set to automatic, as well as the subnet was set to 255.255.255.0 So, does that make any difference to the results I got?
I have also just tried for interest 'rolling back the driver' of the Wireless-N in my W10 Network Connections Properties, where it is still shown as connected to my main router, but it does not appear to have made any difference to gaining access to it?
Brian,The attached jpg yesterday of Network Connections shows Wireless-N on the right, seemingly as though it is still there?
Regards,
Brian
We want only an ethernet connection now to the PIX-LINK. To be able to surf to the management page 192.168.1.253 to correct the setting to the working of this device to the ones you need and want. (Probably enabling wireless again, and/or giving it a SSID we can recognise, and setting the proper mode of the device)BPWL, thanks for your latest comments & queries. I proceeded to do a ethernet cable integrity check with my laptop cabled LAN>LAN to my Netgear D1500 router, and recorded observations both with the wireless connected & disconnected/switched off, since I wasn't sure how you wanted it done? I have attached the resultant jpgs below as well as a SS of my system tray wireless in one of the modes, which I think proves that the cable connection is sound?
Let's hope we get this one stable. Or the PIX-LINK is totally lost.It looks like a bad connection, or the connector not fully plugged in.
Alternating? --- the box statement was switching back & forth between 'Network cable unplugged' & 'Unidentified network'., the latter being shown only fleetingly.
see above answers
How do you want the ethernet connection made for the IPConfig check? Do you want my laptop connected to the PIX-LINK (or to my router?)? And, do you want the wireless on or disconnected & switched off? I assume then I will use the CMD window & type IPConfig ---- Correct?
Regards,
Brian
Brian, you did not find the wireless SSID from the PIX-LINK. The wireless is probably set to OFF. Therefore you must ethernet LAN connect the PIX-LINK and your laptop.BPWL, you've lost me! I understand that wireless is not really wanted, but where did you get 192.168.1.10 from & how am I supposed to use that without wireless, since apart from using CMD for IPConfig & Network status I haven't managed to get to a DHCP page? How am I supposed to use 192.168.1.10 with a LAN connection just between my laptop & the PIX-LINK, Wireless-N device, and obtain the information you are looking for? Or, do you want me to LAN connect the device to my router & then what?
Media disconected means either that the cable is not connected on either end, or cable is broken, or ethernet on either end is not working properly. If you can verify that cable is fine and PC's ethernet is fine, and PIX-LINK is switched on, then this means the other end (PIX-LINK) is likely toast one way or another.Does 'Media disconnected' in this case mean the PIX-LINK device or something more?
"media disconnected" means there is no ethernet connection made to your laptop. And as the PIX-LINK is supposed to be at the other end of the ethernet cable, there are few possibilities of interruption. Your laptop ethernet port is supposed to be OK (could be tested with the router). The cable could me either disconnected or broken.The PIX-LINK could be powered off or has a malfunction in its LAN ethernet port. (bricked device). I already indicated there is a green LED on the PIX-LINK that will indicate if the PIX-LINK sees an ethernet connection or not. Plugging in and out of the cable should be followed by the LED. If not the PIX-LINK is bricked indeed.Thanks, bpwl, for replying with comments. Does 'Media disconnected' in this case mean the PIX-LINK device or something more? As I mentioned previously, no broswer I opened would open either of the factory default URLs or the other 192.168.1.10, so the only app that gave some details with those URLs was CMD! I assume the device is 'bricked up' well & truly?
Regards,
Brian
@bpwl --- You do have the patience of Job ..... my deepest respect for your efforts.Next steps are just useless until there is the ethernet connection.