Hello chaps,
The eldest fruit of my loins has shuffled off to University, and asked me to get him a Wifi access point to connect to his Halls of Residence network connection. Shopping around I bought him an Edimax BR6342-nL wireless router. Set it up at home on my Virgin Broadband and everything worked peachy.
The LAN is supplied to his room through a standard ethernet port, which when connected to any of his wired devices works fine (computer and game console). When switching between the two devices, the 15 lease time on the DHCP has to be allowed to expire otherwise the connection to the internet won't establish.
Anyway, I connect the Wifi Router to the LAN port and run through the setup (and instantly discover I hate the Edimax GUI) and whilst I get an IP address, I'm not getting the University LAN DNS information, which is defaulted to the Edimax server in the setup. Further, I'm not getting any connection specific DNS suffix. When the computer connects to the Wifi router, it receives an IP address from it with the correct gateway address, but again does not get any DNS suffix. Windows 7 thinks that the adapter is connected to the internet, but Explorer sessions time out.
I've mucked around with the config in the router (changing MAC address etc), factory reset the thing and tried again, but still can't get the flaming thing connected. There is a newer firmware available for the router, but before I do that, am I missing anything obvious?
It's been 20 years since I was at Uni, and LAN connections in Halls weren't available back then, so any of you guys'n'gals offer any insight to the use of University LAN connections that I'm not thinking of?
Thanks in advance!


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Fraid i cant offer any help as to why it isnt working but one thing that did work in my halls was connecting a second device up using an additional network card in the PC.



