wireless router acquiring network address

Hi Guys, I am having a problem with the internet. It says it is Acquiring Network Address – then it gives up.?

I have just got a Sky as my new ISP and am using their Netgear Wireless Router. I am using my laptop – sometimes it connects fine and then I will lose connection. I try to reconnect but it tries to ‘Acquire Network Address’ then a it fails. I keep on trying to connect and often it will connect after a dozen attempts or so but sometimes it just refuses. I have a good signal from the router and am confused as to why it sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t – is there some setting I need to change?

I have seen Netgear routers doing same thing before.

You will need to change the channel the router is sending the wireless signal (normaly is on channel 5, change it to a higher one)

You need to log on to the Netgear router interface via Internet browser (Internet Explorer or Mozilla or other). Sky should have given you the details in the package that came with the router. But the default is either 192.168.1.1 or 10.0.0.1. You will be asked username and password (again Sky should have given you this, but if not try username = admin and password = admin, these are the default on Netgear routers.

In the Netgear interrface, locate the Wireless network settings, then the option to change the channel to, let’s say 7 or 8.

Save the settings on the router, then reboot you computer and re-connect.

It should work

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