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Re: Router still at 192.168.1.1 in step 5.6.2

I am responding for the original poster, Sarah. Thank you, Mark for telling us the manual was incorrect in several ways. Not being confident in setting up networks, we followed it verbatim. Upon your advice, we decided to use our brains instead and it worked. Here is what worked for us:

1) Stick to one subnet -- I'm sure this is "Networks 101". We were suspicious, but not confident in our conviction. In the manual for 5.6, two different subnets are mentioned -- 255.255.255.0 AND 255.0.0.0. We found that the router only allowed for 255.255.255.0.

2) In step 8c of step 5.6.2, the starting IP will not say 10.0.0.1. It will say 192.168.1.1 until you power cycle it, which we did immediately after step 8.

3) In step 8c, we did not use 10 (another error in the manual?). Sorry -- I can't look now, but I we picked either 1 or 4 as the last number in IP.

Hope this helps any network neophytes.

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