New D-Link Router will not let my iPod Connect to the internet?

In Settings > Wifi, first click on the specific network connection whatever it is named, then check that the IP numbers are showing 192 etc.. If they are OK then a couple of other things may apply, like DNS numbers and/or proxy settings.

Update the firmware or add your iPod to the MAC address filter

I had problems with a friend's Netgear router a few days ago (and I know she had no password). The iPod recognised that the router was there (so the router and the iPod were working OK) and I clicked on the arrow to get me to the settings where I entered the DNS number that her iMac was showing. Still no joy: using DHCP, it failed to show anything.

I went back to the WiFi settings and checked that the network/router was shown. Then I pressed to the left of the router name in the panel. This time a tick (check-mark) appeared and when I accessed the settings panel all the necessary settings appeared.

You could always press "Forget this netowrk" and start again. . . .

Are you actually getting IP numbers appearing in the WiFi panel? (I guess these would be in the 192.x.x.x series).

How do any numbers allocated compare with the numbers allocated to computers on your network?

Then the devices are not connecting to the same router.

Can you talk us through the connection: from the cable INto the house (office?) right to the computer connection.

It sounds to me as if you are connecting the computer to a router and that the wifi comes off of that, if those numbers are correct (74.n.n.n is a bit odd for a home network methinks). If the iPod and the computer connect to the same D-link device, they should both have numbers in the same series.


I just had another look at that and numbers in the series that includes 74.210.122.88 are issued to Rogers Cable Communications Inc.. That is the connection TO the router, so your computer should have another IP number FROM the router.

Should. . . .

Message was edited by: Graham K. Rogers

OK, two useful pieces of information here. From what you write (and before), your computer is connecting directly to the Rogers' Wireless connection, while the iPod is connecting to the router.

What should be happening is that the router takes the signal from the Rogers connection then routes it to the computer and the iPod. While your iPod is connected to the router, your router may not be connected to the external (Rogers) source.

Rather than the iPod, there is some work needed on the router; and then the computer should be reconfigured to connect to that.

iPod right. Router, computer wrong.

OTOH, if your computer connects to the outdoor modem, why not connect the iPod to that and there would be no need for the router (or am I missing something here?).

I think we may be saying the same thing, but expressing it in different ways.

This is what I think it should be:


Outside source --------->modem --------->router -----> devices


With the iPod and computer picking up different IP numbers, something is not connecting right.