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mortalwombat
19th September 2007, 12:08 PM
Hi Folks,

I have set up my wife's SPV E650 to hook up to our wireless network at home so she can connect to the internet through the home wireless network. We have static IP's on our LAN. Although I have specified a static IP for the E650's wireless connection, I cannot find out where I specify the DNS servers to allow her to connect to the internet via our ISP, (I know the DNS server IPs, I just can't find out where I enter that info on the E650). So at the moment, I can connect to the home network, but cannot get onto t'internet!


It is quite likely that I am being a spaz and am missing something obvious... regardless, if you can help me, let me know!

Cheers

MW
Disabled
19th September 2007, 06:29 PM
even if you have a static IP you should not have to specify a static DNS because your default gateway should be your router IP address and your router should automatically give the DNS servers to any device that pulls that ip address
mortalwombat
19th September 2007, 06:48 PM
even if you have a static IP you should not have to specify a static DNS because your default gateway should be your router IP address and your router should automatically give the DNS servers to any device that pulls that ip address

Thanks for your response.

All the other devices on my home network (laptop, PC, Xbox 360, SPV M3100) ask for the DNS server to be specified in a static IP environment, and they all connect to the internet just fine through the wireless network.

I am sure you are right, but I know that none of the above mentioned devices connect to the internet without the DNS servers specified.

So, question remains, how do I specify the DNS servers on the E650? Maybe a registry entry?
dakota_ii
19th September 2007, 10:30 PM
@mortalwombat,

i have the same problem with my htc s710.

Even though I run the wireless network with static IPs, I set my HTC S710 to get the IP "from a server" (= dynamic IP setting).

I did this after I tried with an IP Adress within my IP Adress Range.

So what happened is that my S710 somehow gets an IP Adress from my router that is almost in my regular IP Range.

You can try to set an static IP Adress within your Range first and then switch to dynamic IP Adress on you device..

Marcus