Help! Spv C600 and Belkin Wireless Router... (Solved!)

[Guest adamkandel]

Hi, i currently have an orange spv c600, a home pc which has a wireless router and a laptop. When i connect my phone to my laptop via activesync everything works fine.

However, when i connect my phone to my laptop and i have my wireless internet switch enabled... the phone connects to activesync alright but it disconnects the wireless connection going not only to my laptop but also the wireless connection going to my brothers laptop. When i disconnect the smartphone the wireless refuses to connect until i restart my laptop.

The wireless router has a security password and i also have trned pc clinic installed as my firewall however the firewall has been set up and works fine with activesync.

Can someone assist me please as i have searched these forums and google with no look.

Thanks,

Adam

P.s. could someone also possibly tell me how to set up my phone to use pass through connection. i cant find it anywhere.

Edited August 24, 2006 by adamkandel

[Guest scudo]

However, when i connect my phone to my laptop and i have my wireless internet switch enabled... the phone connects to activesync alright but it disconnects the wireless connection going not only to my laptop but also the wireless connection going to my brothers laptop. When i disconnect the smartphone the wireless refuses to connect until i restart my laptop.

Hi

could you give us IP addresses of router, laptop & home computer? I think there is a conflict somewhere....

[Guest adamkandel]

Hi

could you give us IP addresses of router, laptop & home computer? I think there is a conflict somewhere....

Hi can you tell me of how i could abtain these 3 addresses?

[Guest adamkandel]

Hi can you tell me of how i could abtain these 3 addresses?

Update... I think these are the ip's. Here you go...

Smartphone: 169.254.2.2

Laptop Computer: 192.168.2.3

Wireless Router: 192.168.2.1

[Guest scudo]

Update... I think these are the ip's. Here you go...

Smartphone: 169.254.2.2

Laptop Computer: 192.168.2.3

Wireless Router: 192.168.2.1

Hi

Ok thanx.. I was thinking in a problem of duplicate IP (same range used for smartphone and wifi for example). it seems not, so I don't know :D

[Guest slimgym]

However, when i connect my phone to my laptop and i have my wireless internet switch enabled... the phone connects to activesync alright but it disconnects the wireless connection going not only to my laptop but also the wireless connection going to my brothers laptop. When i disconnect the smartphone the wireless refuses to connect until i restart my laptop.

I found this too with my SP5m - I guess it's creating a loop in the network and without any spanning tree to block one of the links the traffic gets to a level that the phones network card shuts down. In the case of the router at work, it sees something else giving out DHCP IP addresses (even though it's just it's own traffic coming back in again) and shuts down the DHCP server.

If this is the case you might find once you've created this loop you need to restart the router to get it to start giving out IP's again. The 169.254 range is allocated to microsoft and windows devices give themselves random addresses in this range if they cannot get a successful DHCP address (so they can at least communicate amongst themselves, but not with the outside world).

I thought the phone was faulty initially (had it connected like this to charge and use the wlan at the same time) but since I've only used the wireless on the phone in isolation it's been fine.

[Guest adamkandel]

I found this too with my SP5m - I guess it's creating a loop in the network and without any spanning tree to block one of the links the traffic gets to a level that the phones network card shuts down. In the case of the router at work, it sees something else giving out DHCP IP addresses (even though it's just it's own traffic coming back in again) and shuts down the DHCP server.

If this is the case you might find once you've created this loop you need to restart the router to get it to start giving out IP's again. The 169.254 range is allocated to microsoft and windows devices give themselves random addresses in this range if they cannot get a successful DHCP address (so they can at least communicate amongst themselves, but not with the outside world).

I thought the phone was faulty initially (had it connected like this to charge and use the wlan at the same time) but since I've only used the wireless on the phone in isolation it's been fine.

Mmm this is strange. I still have not found a soloution after 2 days. Is there anyone else who has this problem?

Adam

[Guest adamkandel]

Mmm this is strange. I still have not found a soloution after 2 days. Is there anyone else who has this problem?

Adam

WooHoo! Promlem solved folks... My wireless internet now works on the laptop while my SPV C600 is connected to it. It's been a few days but after playing around in network connections i noticed something. i can confirm that the wireless internet works when i plug the phone in and when i take it out.

Here is how i did it...

1. I turned off my wireless internet switch.

2. I plugged in my C600.

3. I opened network connections.

4. I held down 'control' and selected 'wireless network connection' and 'my smartphone'

5. I right clicked and then selected 'Bridge Connections'.

6. They started bridging however i got an error message (i assume this is because while bridging my phone got temporeraly disconnected.

Now im not 100% how i done the next bit....

7. I right clicked my new network bridge and in the general tab i selected wireless network connection, my smartphone and also 1394 connection. Then i pressed ok.

8. Everything worked... and i have a smile on my face...

I hope this post can help people in the future that may and are probably likely to come across this pain.

DISCLAIMER!!!

*** Please note that i am a n00b with all of this networking, bridging etc. stuff and i have posted this info because it is how i got my wireless laptop and router to co-operate with my Orange SPV C600. Please note i will not take any responsibility for any halm done to your computer if you choose to do this yourself. By changing your network setting you are doing this solely at your own risk and i cannot be held accountable for it. ***

Thanks,

Adam

Oh and remember people... You are not a failure because you failed... You are a failure because you QUIT!!!

Edited August 24, 2006 by adamkandel

[Guest slimgym]

Mmm this is strange. I still have not found a soloution after 2 days.

I guess the solution is to not have the network loop by removing it at one point. So either run the laptop via the router and use USB to access the net from the phone (with the phones wireless off) or have the wireless on both but without the activesync connection to the laptop in place. Or de-activate the pass-thru function in activesync.

Edited August 24, 2006 by slimgym