Actiontec GT704WGB IP Address Problems

Hi i was wondering if anyone has heard of or know if the actiontec has issues with holding the ip address on the ports of the router portion. i have a print server hooked up to an hp all in one printer and everytime i go to print it wont only because the ip address constantly is changing the address of the ports. One day the port address will be 64 then today it's 76. have you heard of this or know anyone that has. any help will be greatly appreciated. thanks

Or you can set up lease time to a higher value. By default it's 1440 minutes -- 24 hours. So if your printer is not used once a day, it go into sleep mode and looses an IP, so it had to renew IP. If you set it 10 days (14400 minutes) then your printer should be able to keep IP address for 10 days. Downside is obvious -- if you have many devices attached to your network then a lot of devices then you can overfill DHCP table.

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Actiontec MI424WR Router Connection Problems

Over the past several days I have continued to have intermittent internet connection problems. All my computers are wired eithernet connections to the Verizon FIOS Actiontec router. I called FIOS tech support yesterday and they were no help, the said they found no problems with the connection. The tech support said it was most liley a problem with using Dell Computers as most problems that he has had to troubleshoot were Verizon Customers who used Dell Computers. Well I have 3 Dell Computers and 2 are VIsat and 1 XP...All have the same intermittent internet connection problesms. I notice that wihle tying to connect to a webpage the Actiontec router looses connection, the WAN Coax and Internet lights go out. It take the router 10 -30 secs to reconnect to the internet. I have re-booted and also have performed a hard re-set of the Actiontec router, same problem still ocurring again today. It has ocurring on all 3 computers and there is no specific website. Just a couple a minutes ago lost conneciton while reviewing the football scores on ESPN.com.
Does this look like bad router or NAT Address problem that people are talking about.

The first thing I would check is your coax connections. You shouldn't be loosing your Coax wan connection. Check it there are any old splitters on the coax, check the ends and make sur ethey aren't cruddy crimped connectors. If everything is new I would call the fsc and tell them that your loosing your wan coax light and arrange to have a field tech visit. It could be something as simple as wiring or something more involved such as replacing your ont.

How to Bridge Actiontec GT704WGB modem/router combo so that I can connect external wireless router?

I am having a hard time to bridge the actiontec GT704WGB
On verizon site there are instructions but they are only for GT704WG without the B. B I beleive is a more latest modem/router combo.
Can anyone please help me guiding on how to setup the actiontech GT704WGB to Bridge mode so that i can connect external router to it?
I would really appreciate a prompt response.
Thanks
Alish

http://www22.verizon.com/ResidentialHelp/HighSpeed/Networking/SetUp/Actiontec704WG/123754.htm
Try this link for details.

"can i set up a Actiontec GT704WGB Gateway and a Actiontec GT704WG Gateway behind as a bridge ?

i want more wireless power in my other room..and i was thinking about buying a bridge .then i though why not see if its possible too set up the704wg behind the the 704wgb as a wireless bridge. before i go out and blow 50 to 100 bucks... alienware p2 750i .os vista ultimate. core intel q9550 duel quad core @ 2.83. if this helps im new at this so plz bare with me .Thanks Kirk

The ActionTec GT704WGB and the GT704WG don't support WDS or Client Bridge mode via Wireless, so they will not act as a repeater. They can act as access points if you run an Ethernet cable to them however. They just need to be set up to operate as such.
So for this issue, unless relocating the router or antennas improves signal quality you are most likely looking at running CAT5/CAT6 cabling, using MoCa or Powerline or setting up another access point nearby. I would suggest against repeating as anything going through the repeater has half the usable bandwidth, which makes a difference if you send a lot of data back and fouth or are on anything higher than 7.1Mbps for DSL service.
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I just used the "find my apple id" and it has an id to my old email address problem is when i try to login to hotmail with that account it says the email address doesn't exist..and this is affecting my application updates and purchases.

Please help!
I dont know how the email address doesnt exist and how it can still be an apple id but not let my access my purchases or update old appplications
thanks,
Kiah.

Hey Chris, thanks for your reply.
The problem is that i have 2 apple Id's now and i used on to purchase my macbook pro a few years back and then i created a new one for my new macbook.. i was trying to update my iphoto and imovie but it kept saying i couldnt update it as it was purchased under a different id, and seeing though i cant get into my old account i cant update what i need to. i know the password for the old one as my brother still uses it but it wont work now as hotmail says the email doesnt exist.
in saying that i dont think i can get into the old account and change the email address

Apple verify email address problem :(

I have a bought a IPhone 4S and I wanted to sign up for itunes. I have done everything. A verification mail is sent by apple but when I linked to the web site given and write my ID (I think it is my mail) and password, I got a message "This email address is already in use or you may already have an Apple ID associated with this email address. Please try again or sign in using your existing Apple ID."
I cannot install sth without it please help me what can I do for overcome this problem

I have the same problem.
And another people with me have the same problem to.
We are wainting for a fix very fast!
Thank you.

Basic Questions on ActionTec MI424-WR Router - problems with poor download/upload speed

First, I will get to the point and ask my questions, then will explain what's happening - I'm interested in hearing whether the right actions are being taken to solve my problem.
1) After perusing the forums, I see frequent reference to the "Rev" version of the ActionTec MI424-WR Router. How do you find the Rev version? I have logged into the Router and in the "System Monitoring" icon, the Router Status lists my Hardware version as 'A'. Does this mean I have Rev 'A'?
2) What is Verizon handing out these days for Routers? Mine is being replaced, and I am wondering what to expect. I have Verizon FIOS Phone, TV, and Internet service, and have the 25/25 Internet service. Will they give me another MI424-WR? If so, what Rev level are they likely to give me?
Here's why my router is being replaced - opinions/comments/advice welcomed.
For the past year or two, I've consistently measured (via speedtest.speakeasy.net) about 30Mbs download, and around 22-25 Upload. Lately, I noticed that my downloads were quite slow, so I tested my speed at the above website, which I had not done in many months. I measured only about 2-3 Download and 1-2 up. Note all of what I am discussing hear takes place with hard-wired ethernet, NOT wireless.
I tried testing from multiple computers, running XP, Vista, and Windows 7. All getting consistently similar poor speeds. I verified my account still is supposed to have 25/25/ service, which I verified online.
Tried rebooting the router, no change. Then tried hard reset (pushing in the recessed button, holding it for about 20-30 seconds. After it reconnected to the Internet, I tested speed again. No change.
Interestingly, I tested wireless speed on the laptop I have. Speed is MUCH better, around 15 down, and 10-12 up.
I tried the speed optimization tool on two of my PCs, it made no improvement. Finally, got into an online chat with a Verizon Tech. He did some tests on the line, we repeated some of the things I already tried, and then he asked how old my Router was...I am pretty sure it is the original one I received when I first signed up for FIOS, around 5-6 years ago, which is one of the reasons I asked how to tell which rev level I had. So the tech concluded the problem was probably my Router.
I TEND to agree, especially because I recently had an "anomaly" on my network. My son complained one day that Internet was down. When I got home, I found out my NetGear Gigbit switch was dead, and two of my hard-wired ethernet network printers could no longer talk to the network. I replaced the switch, so now I am thinking perhaps the Router was damaged somehow. I have no idea what the cause of this anomaly was - everything that connects to my network was plugged into Triplite ISOBAR surge protectors, but that only protects AC power.
I would think a hardware failure would completely kill the ethernet portion of the router, not simply reduce speed, but I could be wrong. Anyone been through something similar to this before? I expect to receive the new Router next Thursday, so hopefully I should know by then, but still - what should the next steps be if the new router does not fix the problem?
Thanks for any comments, insight or shared experiences you might be willing to share...
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This is embarrassing.
Smith6612, you are absolutely correct, and you nailed it!
When all this mess started, I checked my Verizon account to make sure I was signed up for 25/25 Internet. I was.
I don't know what has happened, but after reading Smith6612's response, I went back to recheck my account. I was set up for 15/5! So, the speedtest measurements I have been getting the last couple of days are exactly what I should be getting. Two possibilities:
1) My Triple-Play bundle must have expired in the past two weeks by coincidence.
2) The Verizon tech may have changed my account profile when I worked with them online last week, although this was never discussed.
At any rate, Smith6612 wins the prize. It certainly explains the download/upload speeds I am getting. I have logged into Verizon and signed up for a new bundle. According to their website, my new profile should take effect Tuesday 1/10, so after that point, I should be measuring 25/25 again.
Thanks to all who responded to this thread. I will update this thread to confirm after Tuesday. I get nervous whenever I have to change anything with Verizon - although everything has worked fine for the past few years, we have so many services with them - Cell Phone, TV, Internet, and Home Phone, that I worry something will go wrong with the billing, but we'll see.

Self-assigned IP address problems

I'm having a problem with my wireless router connection (my Airport card shows the network, but the "fan" is greyed out, and if I choose the network it still doesn't connect - When I check network status I get "AirPort connected to network, but has self-assigned IP address and may not be able to connect...)
I can temporarily fix the problem by going into System Preferences to Network to Airport to Preferred Networks to Assist Me and THEN it will go to my network and turn on the path.
I'm running Tiger 10.4.11 on a G5 iMac with the original AirPort Extreme card, and routing through a Linksys WRT54G attached to a cable modem.
There are a lot of networks in my area, according to my wireless "fan".
If changing channels on my router might fix this, I'd like to give it a try, but I don't know how, AND I don't want to ruin the signal to the other computers in the house, which, by the way, work just fine when the iMac loses the signal.
If there's another way to tell the router to ignore the self-assigned IP address, or to get the AirPort to stop providing this ...
The problem is obviously the self-assigned IP address. The question is what is causing this?
Is it the AirPort Extreme Card?
Is it the Linksys Wireless router?
How do I test to see which it is, without losing the signal from the router to the other computers in the house?
With so many people having the same problem, there must be an answer somewhere.
Can some kind soul please point out the correct path? My tech support (teenager) will be home from college this week, and if I can prove to him that it won't ruin everything I think he'll be up to the challenge.

Hi,
Thank you Linc & dwb, I've had no issues with the router in the 14 months its been installed. But tonight I've turned off the NAS and since then no drop off for wifi/ or assigning itself an IP address.
I will switch on the NAS once again and see what happens, would it be best to assign a static IP to the NAS? One thing I have found when checking the homehub connection details, the mac air connects at the 5Gz Wireless as does the Kindle, which has also suffered from losing the wifi connection, where as my macbook pro only connects at 2.4Gz and like I said has not had any issue. Not sure if this anything to do with the problem or not?
All I do know is that since the NAS was introduced then the problems began, so again not sure if its the NAS impacting on the router or a router setting?
thanks

Self-assigned IP address problem - My solution

I am new to this board and created an ID just to write this post. When I searched for this self-assigned IP problem, I found almost 1 million results on Google so obviously I am not alone.
I have this problem off and on on the wireless network at home with a Netgear router. It has never happened at my office with a D-Link router. Never happened at Starbucks or McDonalds (yes, they all offer WiFi here). But it happened at one Pizza Hut and it also at Christchurch airport about a week ago.
Deleting one of the plist files worked once at home many months ago but this week nothing worked. My Mac usually goes back to normal by itself after I "****" it out at other WiFi networks but not this time. As a last resort, I asked my brother (our family's I.T. guy) to change the router as I had not tried that fix. He didn't do it but a day later, he gave me to oddest solution that worked in a blink of an eye.
The solution? Key in a wrong password!!!
1) Go to Keychain Access, delete the keychain for the problematic network.
2) Connect back to the network
3) Enter a WRONG password that is similar to the right one. For example, if your password is Apple123, try APPLE123. You should still connect to the network and get a self-assigned IP.
4) Repeat Step 1. To be safe, you might want to re-boot now. I did but probably didn't have to!
5) Repeat Step 2
6) Enter the right password
I'm not all that techie so all I understood from what he said was:
1) It's probably a non-Apple router bug
2) It's a hex key problem. The password wasn't being encoded/decoded properly so the router wasn't assigning the computer an IP address. Wasn't even reading the password which is why I could connect with a wrong one.
He deduced that from reading a post from a guy in Spain who thought he had carelessly entered the wrong password and was wasting the community's time with his posting. I had read that post a couple of days ago too! But obviously I thought the Spaniard had just entered the wrong password and there was no fix for me to try out. My brother is a genius!
I guess it then makes sense why fixes like:
1) Disabling the firewall
2) Deleting preference lists
3) Deleting keychains
4) Changing the router
5) Renewing DHCP lease
6) Resetting the router
...have worked for many people and not others. None of them actually fix the cause of the problem. Having searched for 3 days, I could not find the REAL reason why this happened. Personally from all I have read, I think it must be a hex key problem with Netgear and Linksys routers. I see those 2 names mentioned a **** of a lot. Maybe it's another one of those gadgets built more for PCs that don't work perfectly with Macs all the time. We used to have an Apple Airport Extreme base station but that got fried by lightning. It was not cheap.... So technically, it really isn't Apple's problem. I think if we used an Apple router, we wouldn't have a self-assigned IP address. Maybe that's why they haven't "fixed" the problem after so many years.
Anyway, let me know if my brother's fix worked for you.
This is my good deed for the weekend! Goodnight....!

Hello, thanks for the tip/post, & a warm welcome to the forums!

IMessage contact address problems

I am a little perplexed about how to set up iMessage correctly.
I have iMessage activated. My settings are that "I can be reached by iMessage" at my phone number and email. I "Start new conversations from" my email.
The first problem I have is when I talk to my girlfriend (she has an iPhone). I frequently have two different iMessage threads with her and it is very frustrating. In one thread, if I click on her Contact info it highlights her phone number. The other thread, it highlights her email. Its annoying to not keep everything in one unified thread. Is there anyway to do this? Is the problem on her end or my end?
Keeping the above problem in mind, I would also like to unify my iMessage with my iPad messaging. I get this to work sporatically, but I would like it if I could consistently see all my iMessage conversations in my iPad as if I were looking at my iPhone. My girlfriend also has an iPad (although she hasn't been using it for messaging) so I would like to be able to set up the same for her.
I just don't understand the need for separating iMessages into two threads depending on the address. It would seem to be easier for everyone if you just kept it unified based on the name.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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DHCP beginning address problem.

Hi guys,
I cannot understand how to configure my TC. I put exactly the same network settings as they were in the Airport Express to share the Internet connection. Everything works fine except the internet itself. The problem as I see it is that dhcp beginning address cannot be set far away from the static IP. In my case, the static IP is 213.170.70.** and I only can change these ** last figures in the dhcp range.
But this conflicts with my provider and I have no internet while the TC itself works fine. If I set "share the only address" it doesn't help either.
Anybody can help?
Many thanks in advance.

None really. These are the three IP Address ranges available for Private Networks. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has directed the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to reserve these IPv4 address ranges for private networks. This has been published in RFC 1918.
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Web server default address problem

When I installed the new Xserve with Leopard Server to replace an old G4 running OSX 10.3 server my default Web address changed from: http://xxxx.xxxx.xxx to http://xxxx.xxxx.xxx/groups/workgroup/
I just want it to go back to the original way it was. I'm living in a Windows world and I'm the only Mac person here.
Any help would be appreciated.

I had the same problem this morning with a clean install of 10.5 Leopard Server.
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SG200-8 Static mac address problem

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My second problem with sg200-08 (firmware: SG200-08x_FW_1.0.6.2.stk) is when I try to add specific MAC address as secure:
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AP 2700 - 2 MAC addresses - problem with joining to the WLC

Hi,
I had a problem with joining my new AP 2700 to the controller. I've found workaround but I would like to ask you if you know if this behavior is a some kind of bug or maybe feature :)
I have DHCP server which assigns IP address base on the binding MAC address with the IP address. Without binding, IP won't be assigned so I added MAC address from the AP sticker (MAC and SN number is on the sticker at the back of each AP) to the DHCP, connected AP to the switch port which was configured exactly the same way like other ports on this switch where older AP are working fine and.... nothing. IP address was not assigned. There was no DHCP request in the DHCP server logs.
During the investigation I've found that AP present 2 MAC addresses on the switch interface:
switch#sh mac address-table interface fa1/1
Mac Address Table
Vlan Mac Address Type Ports
11 58f3.54c1.2cb3 DYNAMIC Fa1/1
11 58f3.54c1.2cb4 DYNAMIC Fa1/1
The first one (58f3.54c1.2cb3) is a "sticker" MAC address but the second one (58f3.54c1.2cb4) is something new. Looking in to the DHCP logs I've found log that this second MAC address (58f3.54c1.2cb4) tried to get IP address but it was not possible because this MAC was not binding with any IP address so DHCP server refuse. I added this second MAC (58f3.54c1.2cb4) to the DHCP server, AP get IP address, join to the WLC, download software, reboot and ... this MAC address disappear.
switch#sh mac address-table interface fa1/1
Mac Address Table
Vlan Mac Address Type Ports
11 58f3.54c1.2cb3 DYNAMIC Fa1/1
Software I had on the AP before joining to the WLC was:
Version :
Cisco IOS Software, C2700 Software (AP3G2-RCVK9W8-M), Version 15.2(4)JB5, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
now I have (after downloaded from the WLC)
Version :
Cisco IOS Software, C2700 Software (AP3G2-K9W8-M), Version 15.2(4)JB6, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Do anyone know what happen?

(WLC1) >show sysinfo
Manufacturer's Name.............................. Cisco Systems Inc.
Product Name..................................... Cisco Controller
Product Version.................................. 7.6.130.0
Bootloader Version............................... 1.0.20
Field Recovery Image Version..................... 7.6.95.16
Firmware Version................................. FPGA 1.7, Env 1.8, USB console 2.2
Build Type....................................... DATA + WPS
System Name...................................... WLC1
System Location..................................
System Contact...................................
System ObjectID.................................. 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.1.1069
Redundancy Mode.................................. Disabled
IP Address....................................... 10.10.10.10
Last Reset....................................... Software reset
System Up Time................................... 25 days 2 hrs 53 mins 5 secs
System Timezone Location.........................
System Stats Realtime Interval................... 5
System Stats Normal Interval..................... 180
Configured Country............................... US - United States
Operating Environment............................ Commercial (0 to 40 C)
Internal Temp Alarm Limits....................... 0 to 65 C
Internal Temperature............................. +44 C
External Temperature............................. +22 C
Fan Status....................................... OK
State of 802.11b Network......................... Enabled
State of 802.11a Network......................... Disabled
Number of WLANs.................................. 6
Number of Active Clients......................... 25
Burned-in MAC Address............................ XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
Power Supply 1................................... Present, OK
Power Supply 2................................... Present, OK
Maximum number of APs supported.................. 25
(WLC1) >show time
Time............................................. Thu Apr 9 13:51:00 2015
Timezone delta................................... 0:0
Timezone location................................
NTP Servers
NTP Polling Interval......................... 3600
Index NTP Key Index NTP Server NTP Msg Auth Status
1 0 10.10.10.11 AUTH DISABLED
It's look like AP doesn't allow for console login or commands it just only show activity. After rebooting the WLC I get information:
Cisco IOS Software, C2700 Software (AP3G2-RCVK9W8-M), Version 15.2(4)JB5, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

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