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Ip address problem 169.254.x.x can't connect to wifi network

I'm currently running wm5 ivan w/rd
i keep having this problem where i try to connect to a network, and it connects, but i can't do anything.
When i open up my ipconfig it shows the network ip address as 169.254.x.x where x is always something different. My router shows the mac address on the network but it's unreachable.
Does anyone have any idea where this ip is coming from? I've tried different radio versions, and it happens so far with 1.1.13 and 1.1.15 on both wm5 AND wm3.

169.254.xxx.xxx is a class of ip addresses set automatically to a device, when this can't connect the dhcp server. is a reserved network.
if your router is set as dhcp server, you must verify the link connection with pda. else you must configure the correct ip address manually to the pda.

download and run vxIPconfig and use that to release and renew a new IP from the DHCP server

Nine times out of ten this is caused by bad encryption settings. If you put in the wrong WEP key for example this is what you would see. You don't get error messages when it's wrong, which is kind-of by design and desirable for security reasons.

I'm downloading vxipconfig right now. I did a search last night and was reminded of 169.254.x.x coming up on machines when winsock is corrupt.
Another web site said something about how a pda will connect to the first computer with activesync through wifi under this ip address and try to sync, and then it will get a normal ip address. I don't know if this is true with this device.
@closer what do you mean verify the link connection? The router shows the pda's ip address in it's connection manager, but for any computer or pda i don't know a way to "verify the link" other than look at it. There's no command for this. The router is set up to correctly assign dhcp as i have 2 computers and 2 xbox's connected through lines, and 2 computers through wifi. I know i can manualy set the ip, which i often do for everything but the laptop, but this is a pain in the ass to try and find out the gateway of every single router when i'm out in town. That's a workaround, not a fix.
@Black6spdz I was using Myipconfig and it would release and renew to just a different 169.254.x.x. I'm going to try vxipconfig when this happens again.
--Well, last night i got pissed and abandoned working on it. Low and behold when i wake up today it's working fine and has the correct ip address. That sucks, because now i have no idea what was wrong.
so...
-It's time to go connect to some other networks and see if it resolves correctly.
-Then i'm going to go through the 3 different radio versions and see how they affect it.

when I had that problem it was because my settings were set up incorrectly.. If i were to use gprs, it'd work fine. But wifi would not. So i had to make a seperate setting with generic entries and not set up proxies. then wifi would work. sort of a pain. but it would work...

WLAN Problem Diamond

ok, first of all, i checked every single thread on this page hoping to get a solution for my problem.
HTC Diamond, D-Link DWL-900AP+ Access Point.
My Diamond can "see" the Access Point, but is unable to connect with it.
Authentification WPA-PSK
Encryption TKIP
Networkkey Manually inserted and 100% correct.
Hook set at IEEE802.1x
EAP Typ = Smartcard or security certificate (but it's greyed out)
Network Card connects to Internet
From Server given IP Adress (hook set) DHCP on Access Point enabled
MAC Filters disabled
I also played around with the available network tabs.
I have vodafone DE, vodafone internet, company network or ISP
The the slider of the energy saving modus ist set to best performance.
What the hell is going wrong????
I also owe a HTC Touch Elfin and have no problems to access my network/internet.
Any suggestions would be highly appreciated
thank you

try deleting your network saved setting from list, make sure network card connects to internet, not work, find access point, and enter your password again.
this works for me in similar situations.
works if you start fresh, and not trying to connect with the same settings. i dont know why but has saved my ass a few times.

Also, try changing the encryption from TKIP to AES and see if that works....

I have the same problem! It's something about DHCP. My Diamond connects to my home wifi onli if I set the IP (which belongs to my phone on access point) address in the properties of network adapter.

HI did you try to put the host address of a site?
write 64.233.167.99 instead of google.it in case you can see the page the problem is the dns not resolved and insert manually in your phone connection

Marcellus_pnz said:
I have the same problem! It's something about DHCP. My Diamond connects to my home wifi onli if I set the IP (which belongs to my phone on access point) address in the properties of network adapter.
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Same here, it looks like a DHCP time-out or routing problem. I've set up a DHCP server with a small pool of adresses on the acces point itself and now my Diamond always connects correctly. Before that, my Diamond would state that i had entered a invalid security key.

diamond connects but i cannot visit any website
Hi,
I have a similar problem. My diamond gets an ip address from dhcp, connects to dwl-900ap+ but i am not able to open any website (I tried to open some web with url and with its ip address too) - tried opera and IE too. In opera i get a "could not locate remote server" error. (Looks like a DNS problem?) I am not even able to open the AP's configuration web with diamond. Every other wifi enabled equipment I tried (1 notebook with win vista, 1 with XP, 1 with debian linux, nokia n95 with symbian and e-ten m700 with win mobile 5) works without a single problem. I also tried to reset the AP and my diamond - without success.
I didn't change any setting on the AP except for setting up a WEP encryption (i know, i know, it's not a strong encryption ), the SSID and the AP's ip address. Everything else is default. My dhcp server is not the access point. DHCP runs on a similarly configured router with wifi AP (diamond connects without problem).
Any idea/solution? thanks

[Q] Can't connect to internet via WiFi

I have tried many times to connect to the internet through a WiFi connection. The phone finds WiFi connections OK but when I click on Internet Explorer, the phone tries to connect via GPRS.
I have tried reading the other threads and reading through 'how to connect' on the phone but have not found a solution.
I have had my XDA2i for many years and just changed the digitiser pad and LCD. I've never connected to a WiFi network, despite many tries.

Initial questions:
What IP address has it given you... is it 192.... or 169.... ?
And what is the IP address of your router?

When I select 'Wireless LAN Manager' it displays
Status: Connected to network
SSID: O2wireless**** Tx Rate:Auto
Mode: Infrastructure Channel: 1
BSSID: **-**-**-**-**-**
MAC: **-**-**-**-**-**
IP: 169.254.***.***. Renew IP
Signal quality = 80% Good
I don't know what any of these numbers mean. I have left out some info, as I don't know what is private. Is the IP address mine or the network I'm trying to connect to?
I don't have a wireless network. I just want to connect to hot spots when I'm out, like my friends do.

justmegt said:
When I select 'Wireless LAN Manager' it displays
Status: Connected to network
SSID: O2wireless**** Tx Rate:Auto
Mode: Infrastructure Channel: 1
BSSID: **-**-**-**-**-**
MAC: **-**-**-**-**-**
IP: 169.254.***.***. Renew IP
Signal quality = 80% Good
I don't know what any of these numbers mean. I have left out some info, as I don't know what is private. Is the IP address mine or the network I'm trying to connect to?
I don't have a wireless network. I just want to connect to hot spots when I'm out, like my friends do.
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The IP address of 169.... means that the Router you are connected to isn't giving out dynamic addresses (DHCP)... Dynamic means that you are given your IP address by the router.
You couldd eclare a Static IP address, but for using hotspots you need to use Dynamic.
Where are you testing this?
If it's a friend's router, get them to check that DHCP is enabled and that its giving out addresses (could test with a wireless laptop).

The info I posted is a router I am picking up near my house.
When I'm out, we often go to a Hotel which has free wireless networking. My friend picks it up on her Blackberry with no problems. I can pick it up up but Internet Explorer always tries to connect using GPRS. I'm supposed to be the computer geek, so it's very embarrassing.

Well if you're only getting a 169... IP address then you're not going to get anywhere...
When you turn on wifi it should first of all start 'Scanning Network', then you get the SSID, etc and then get (say) a 192.... address. If you don;t get the 192 address then for some reason you're not picking up a dynamic ip address...

Kies Air access from outside network issue

My desktop LAN and wifi are different network. My office network is 192.168.1.x and wifi router WAN IP is 192.168.1.254 and wifi router LAN network is 192.168.15.x
My Note connects to wifi router and gets 192.168.15.2. I got wifi router configured to give static DHCP IP to my phone and it always gets 192.168.15.2. I then added port mapping to forward TCP port 8080 to this IP.
So when I run Kies Air, it displays URL http://192.168.15.2:8080
and from my desktop I type http://192.168.1.254:8080 and IT DOES NOT WORK. As soon as I hit go, URL gets forwarded to http://192.168.1.254:8080/www/index.html (blank screen) which means browser did reach Kies Air service but then nothing goes further.
I had done similar port mapping with other similar kind of apps (AirDroid, LazyDroid App Desktop, Motorola's similar app) and it always used to work.
Laptops in the same n/w (i.e., 15.x) are able to connect to Kies Air without any issue. My wifi router is DLink DIR 655. Any clues?

disable DHCP from your wifi router and let all devices get their IP from your original router. that way, you will be in the same IP range.

Thanks for the reply. Yes that is one solution to set wifi router in AP mode. But problem is we don't have master dhcp server leasing out 198.168.1.x IPs. All desktop are given static IP and there is firewall deciding who is given access to where and to do what.
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Static IP address

I'm thinking about buying a Chromecast since I bought a nexus 6 and I need to mirror my smartphone screen.
I have dchp disabled on my router and every network device has a static IP address.
Is it possible to assign a static IP address to Chromecast?
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I use Fing app it shows all addresses on network. I don't thing mine have ever changed. Maybe lock ip to mac address in router?

I don't know as I have never tried but usually manually adding a network will allow you to set a static IP.
Not sure if the CCast has manual setup and I'm not home to check.
I am going to assume you shut off DHCP as a security measure which isn't really effective since you can just manually set IP for most devices if you already have the password.
Better is to use MAC Address filtering and only allow approved MAC Addresses on the WiFi.
To keep IPs static to identify devices it is better to set DHCP reservations instead and if you want extra security via DHCP to limit the IP range to just enough to account for every reservation you have set.
The MAC Filter will stop any other devices from connecting and getting any IP of a unit that might be disconnected at the time of connection.

I just set static IPs for my devices at the router. Maybe you can try that too cause as far as I've seen, you can't mess with the CCast networking settings.
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My router hasn't the setting to set a static IP address through a Mac address. Do you think there is no way to connect my phone to a Chromecast?
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mouse100 said:
My router hasn't the setting to set a static IP address through a Mac address. Do you think there is no way to connect my phone to a Chromecast?
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It's called DHCP reservation on most routers. Static IP is nothing more than making sure the device (Mac Address) gets the same IP each time it connects which is essentially the same as a static IP.
Only difference is that the Router determines what IP you don't set it on the device itself.
But you do have to have the DHCP server running for it to work.
And until it is turned on you might not see any setting for DHCP reservation or IP assignment since you told the router not to assign any IPs by shutting off the DHCP server built into the router.

Unfortunately I haven't the option you are speaking about in my modem/router. So today Chromecast arrived but I wasn't able to connect it. I'm doing an RMA to Amazon I don't understand why Google didn't introduce this function.
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Why don't you just enable DHCP? If you are worried about leaving it on you could turn it off after. You would just need to turn it on when you rebooted the Chromecast. Or you could see if another device on your network supports up allocation by Mac address. Another idea would be to setup a dhcp range with only one address? Just some ideas, seems silly to RMA for no reason.

Worst to worse you could just run a DHCP server on your PC or something (assuming you have one) and have your chromecast get an IP from that?

mouse100 said:
Unfortunately I haven't the option you are speaking about in my modem/router. So today Chromecast arrived but I wasn't able to connect it. I'm doing an RMA to Amazon I don't understand why Google didn't introduce this function.
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Mouse what I'm saying is if you don't enable DHCP then the options to configure them will not appear..
It's possible that if you have one of those ISP provided Modem/Routers that you do not have access to the settings you need but more likely is it is labeled something obscure or has a Security level setting that doesn't suggest what level you need without looking in the Manual.
If neither is true then what you really should do is go out and get yourself a proper wireless router and put the modem into Bridge mode.
But there is no need or excuse to have DHCP turned off on a router it doesn't add any security protection as anyone can figure out what IP to use to get connected and it only complicates connecting new devices to the network.

It's not a security motivation. I have too many devices and I need to assign each of them a particular "IP" also because I need to reach them outside my intranet through a ddns service. For instance I have 2 IP cams, a NAS and other 2 routers connected to the main router and no one give me the ability to set a particular IP through a Mac address since they are the same brand (belkin).
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mouse100 said:
It's not a security motivation. I have too many devices and I need to assign each of them a particular "IP" also because I need to reach them outside my intranet through a ddns service. For instance I have 2 IP cams, a NAS and other 2 routers connected to the main router and no one give me the ability to set a particular IP through a Mac address since they are the same brand (belkin).
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Well you can have up to 253 devices attached to a router with DHCP.
What model Router do you have?

Also, you can use one part of the subnet for the dhcp range, and one part for manually configured devices. That would allow you to have dhcp available and keep all the devices that need static addresses configured how they already are.

Asphyx said:
Well you can have up to 253 devices attached to a router with DHCP.
What model Router do you have?
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You can have closer to 16,777,213 devices attached to a router with DHCP (assuming you're happy to use the class A private space) - although this would be highly impractical obviously

Asphyx said:
Well you can have up to 253 devices attached to a router with DHCP.
What model Router do you have?
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Belkin F7D2401.
@narse how can I do?
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On broadband routers the default DHCP setting is often to allocate IP addresses from the whole internal range (e.g. all of 192.168.0.0/24, from 192.168.0.1 through to 192.168.0.254). However you should be able to change the settings and set the scope yourself by setting a beginning and end address to use for DHCP. For example, if your existing devices that already have static addresses are 192.168.0.1 through to 192.168.0.10; then you could define a small range (e.g. 192.168.0.100 - 192.168.0.110) which will be used for DHCP. This will mean that they will all work and be able to speak to each other.
Let us know how you get on.

Kyonz said:
You can have closer to 16,777,213 devices attached to a router with DHCP (assuming you're happy to use the class A private space) - although this would be highly impractical obviously
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LOL I figure lets get DHCP working first before we move onto the special sauce!
mouse100 said:
Belkin F7D2401.
@narse how can I do?
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I think I believe I know what is going on here...
(First let me say Belkin makes what could be the most useless manuals I have ever seen!)
I believe you may have DHCP on but....
1 - it is "Bridging" giving out external IPs not a private local subnet. or
2 - It is on but you have bypassed the DHCP server on everything else and maybe have too many wireless devices for the unit (cheap routers like this have this problem I have noticed despite with the 802.11 spec says should be possible)
If you log into the router config page using your browser "http://router/" you should see a DHCP client list selection. It may display no clients since you set everything for static. If you do not see that then DHCP is probably disabled. This is normally where the option to set DHCP reservations exists.
Under LAN settings should be where DHCP is turned on or off also where you would set the range of IP addresses it will give out.
If it is not there or the DHCP is turned on then the issue is likely too many wireless devices connected to the router...The issue being the router.
In that case you really want to put that modem into Bridge mode and get a good robust Wireless router that has much better controls to set your network properly.
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narse said:
On broadband routers the default DHCP setting is often to allocate IP addresses from the whole internal range (e.g. all of 192.168.0.0/24, from 192.168.0.1 through to 192.168.0.254). However you should be able to change the settings and set the scope yourself by setting a beginning and end address to use for DHCP. For example, if your existing devices that already have static addresses are 192.168.0.1 through to 192.168.0.10; then you could define a small range (e.g. 192.168.0.100 - 192.168.0.110) which will be used for DHCP. This will mean that they will all work and be able to speak to each other.
Let us know how you get on.
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And this setting should be found in the Lan Settings section of the router!
What @narse is saying is perhaps the issue is DHCP server is causing a conflict with one of your static IP units because that IP is in it's DHCP lease range.
Good Catch @narse I hadn't thought of that!

Asphyx said:
LOL I figure lets get DHCP working first before we move onto the special sauce!
I think I believe I know what is going on here...
(First let me say Belkin makes what could be the most useless manuals I have ever seen!)
I believe you may have DHCP on but....
1 - it is "Bridging" giving out external IPs not a private local subnet. or
2 - It is on but you have bypassed the DHCP server on everything else and maybe have too many wireless devices for the unit (cheap routers like this have this problem I have noticed despite with the 802.11 spec says should be possible)
If you log into the router config page using your browser "http://router/" you should see a DHCP client list selection. It may display no clients since you set everything for static. If you do not see that then DHCP is probably disabled. This is normally where the option to set DHCP reservations exists.
Under LAN settings should be where DHCP is turned on or off also where you would set the range of IP addresses it will give out.
If it is not there or the DHCP is turned on then the issue is likely too many wireless devices connected to the router...The issue being the router.
In that case you really want to put that modem into Bridge mode and get a good robust Wireless router that has much better controls to set your network properly.
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And this setting should be found in the Lan Settings section of the router!
What @narse is saying is perhaps the issue is DHCP server is causing a conflict with one of your static IP units because that IP is in it's DHCP lease range.
Good Catch @narse I hadn't thought of that!
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Yes you understood my situation. I have dhcp disabled and so no devices in list. The list is empty.
I could set a small IP range as @narse is suggesting but in this way it could be the problem that the device that is turned on firstly could take the first IP available (192.168.0.2, if the router has 192.168.0.1), and I could have a conflict of IP in my net. So if a particular PC, with IP 192.168.0.2, has emule and his ports opened and it's connected later, his IP could be taken by another computer/device. The solution could be reserve IP by Mac address as you're are saying if the option is present when I enable dchp. So I can try to enable dchp with small IP range and see
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mouse100 said:
Yes you understood my situation. I have dhcp disabled and so no devices in list. The list is empty.
I could set a small IP range as @narse is suggesting but in this way it could be the problem that the device that is turned on firstly could take the first IP available (192.168.0.2, if the router has 192.168.0.1), and I could have a conflict of IP in my net. So if a particular PC, with IP 192.168.0.2, has emule and his ports opened and it's connected later, his IP could be taken by another computer/device. The solution could be reserve IP by Mac address as you're are saying if the option is present when I enable dchp. So I can try to enable dchp with small IP range and see
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Not if the other devices are set to static IP already....
And I'm willing to bet that once you do turn on DHCP server you will get more options INCLUDING the ability to set DHCP reservations to set static IP for all devices on your network if your router does support that.
But you won't see those options until you turn DHCP on.
So just turn it on and set the DHCP range to be outside of any of the IP addresses you are currently using and see if the option shows up.
If it does then you can continue to use Static IP for things like Cameras and NAS if you want to just set the DHCP range accordingly.
I reserve the first 50 IPs for static use (Servers and NAS) and leave the rest assignable by DHCP.
For each type of device I use a different range of IPs (Cameras 80-89, Printers 90-99, CCast 200-210, Tablets 150-160, Phones 130-140 and Computers 100-129)
And I do all that via DHCP Reservation as it makes things easy to setup and add because I don't have to enter in all the IP and Subnet info just plug it in, turn it on and do everything else as far as network management from the router.
I even do the DynDNS from the router and use port forwarding to get whatever device I need.

Unfortunately I haven't that settings:
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So no way to assign a static IP to chromecast through a MAC address. I need a better modem/router