Wifi problem

[creed]

I had a power outage and my wifi stopped working. Slow green light flashing on module. I tried using the wifi setup tool again it goes through the whole thing but stay on the auto port forwarding when originally automatically configured the port forwarding. How can I get this thing working again?

[00Warpig00]

If the light is flashing slow green the Wifi module should be connected to your access point. Sounds like your Router\Access point's DHCP server may have assigned a new IP address to your WiFi module.

Can you ping the WiFi module?

Nick

[creed]

How do I ping the wifi?

[rimai]

open command promp and type

ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is your internal ip address
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_(networking_utility)

[creed]

ok I did the ping. says 4 packets sent 4 recieved no loss on my internal ip addy. I assume this is good. What do I need to do next?

[rimai]

You should be able to connect to it by using the internal ip address, correct?

[creed]

I can connect on iphone with the ip addy from the wifi setup utility only at home. The ip addy in the wifi utility is diffrent from my internal ip addy.

[rimai]

Ok, so you need to setup port forwarding on your router.
Check this site:
http://www.simpleportforwarding.com/

[creed]

I tried the port forwarding not sure what I am doing!! What port to what port am I forwarding and what ip addy am I supposed to use?

[dbmet]

Your forwarding port 2000 to whatever ip address the reefangel wifi module has..

[creed]

I cannot figure this out!! Simple port forwarding asks for what port to what port to forward too, it also asks for what IP address to forward too. I don't know what values to enter?

[dbmet]

What kind of Wireless Router do you have?

[creed]

Linksys wrt160n ver 3. Why won't it automatically set up port forwarding like it did in the past?

[dbmet]

No Clue.. But I would check in the router settings to see what ip address the ReefAngel Wifi module has first.. Then you can forward port 2000 to that ip address.. I like to do everything manual in the router.
Maybe this site will help
http://portforward.com/english/routers/ ... ckland.htm

[creed]

I finally got it working again!! After a week of trying. I never was able to figure out the manual port forwarding. I got frustrated and reset the router and went through the wifi setup wizard and it worked. The router set up the port forwarding without me having to do anything.

[dbmet]

Great!!!