New router, wireless issues

[hunter67]

I recently purchased a RT-N66U to upgrade from an older Belkin Pre-N router. On the Lan side, everything is great. On the wireless side, though, I am having issues. I have connected 2 android phones and a Win 7 laptop via the wireless, laptop and 1 phone on 2.4GHz, other phone on 5 GHz, and all three cannot access the internet.

Am I missing something here?? All the LAN hosts work great, but the wireless has no connectivity.

I've upgraded to the latest ASUS firmware 4.270, and it hasn't made any difference. All the wireless settings are at auto currently. I'm having no trouble connecting to the router, just getting beyond it.

 

[RMerlin]

I recommend setting security to WPA2-Personal, with AES encryption. Try reconnecting with the router configured with these parameters, see if it works better.

 

[RogerSC]

I would also take a look at the wireless activity around you using something like inSSIDer, and pick the least busy channel, rather than using "auto" there. Interference from neighbors wireless can be a killer (not to mention cordless phones, microwave ovens, baby monitors, wireless headphones and so on that operate in the 2.4GHz. range *smile*). And pick "20MHz. only" channel width rather than auto. That combined with the WPA2/AES security should help get your wireless working on the internet.

 

[hunter67]

Already running with AES and WPA2-Personal, switched to channel 4, 20MHz only, still can't get beyond router. On the laptop, the connection shows up with "no Internet Access" on it.

Changed the DHCP server's DNS Server address and rebooted/reconnected, still no difference.

 

[hunter67]

Update, problem solved

Turns out that the DNS server settings that I copied from the old router were incorrect. Put the correct IP's in and everything is working fine.