HT502 Not Visible to Router

[mobilelawyer]

Uh oh. I've got the Netgear DGND3700, and I have got some of its ports forwarded to use Remote Potato. I have not tried to access them since I got the 502 up and running. If you don't mind, may I ask what aspect of the design of the Belkin F7D2301 allows it to use the 502 behind it, when other router models do not, and how did you find out it had that feature.

I really really hope that if this issue does crop up with me, as I assume it will, there are some settings on the netgear that I can change to make it work.

[jack90125]

my setup is cablemodem -->router--->grandstream and it works fine.
I have stuff running on the router (ddwrt&optware) and all works fine.
I had to change the grandstream to a set ip as not running a dhcp server (do not need someone parked on the street hacking the internet). on the grandstrteam lan port is empty as have no need for anything hanging off it.
I had to call support to get it working as they had me change a setting in the advanced tab of the grandstream.
all has worked great and I still have my media server running off the router with no issues.

[mobilelawyer]

my setup is cablemodem -->router--->grandstream and it works fine.
I have stuff running on the router (ddwrt&optware) and all works fine.
I had to change the grandstream to a set ip as not running a dhcp server (do not need someone parked on the street hacking the internet). on the grandstrteam lan port is empty as have no need for anything hanging off it.
I had to call support to get it working as they had me change a setting in the advanced tab of the grandstream.
all has worked great and I still have my media server running off the router with no issues.

Question - how did you get into the Grandsteam to configure it? Since my set up does now allow it to be seen as a device, and it does not show up with an ip address, I do not have a way to log into its interface. At least as far as I know. My problem is that if I attach the WAN output of the Grandstream to the WAN input of my router, the Grandsteam still does not show up as a device, and I lose my internet connection. If I could turn its dhcp server off, maybe I could change my set up to emulate yours.

[jack90125]

Question - how did you get into the Grandsteam to configure it? Since my set up does now allow it to be seen as a device, and it does not show up with an ip address, I do not have a way to log into its interface. At least as far as I know. My problem is that if I attach the WAN output of the Grandstream to the WAN input of my router, the Grandsteam still does not show up as a device, and I lose my internet connection. If I could turn its dhcp server off, maybe I could change my set up to emulate yours.

plug the gs wan into the lan of router plug computer into lan port open browser and 192.168.2.1 and you can change the settings.
best bet is just have everything ready ,call support to walk you thru it.

[MarkTomlinson]

If you don't mind, may I ask what aspect of the design of the Belkin F7D2301 allows it to use the 502 behind it, when other router models do not, and how did you find out it had that feature.

Honestly, I had an old router and just decided to replace it because so many other people had their ATA behind the router. I figured mine was just a crap router. I just took a chance, really.

The longer version of the story is that I had a Netgear running DD-WRT. Then, also, I had no problem with the ATA behind the router and had didn't have to port-forward to it or anything. But I'm constantly tinkering and bricked my Netgear, so I threw in an old Belkin I had laying around. But that's when I found I had to have my ATA in front of the router. After several failed attempts of trying to unbrick the Netgear, I gave up and bought the first router I could find that had port-forwarding in case I needed it. Lo and behold, the new Belkin worked flawlessly. So I decided to stop tinkering with the routers and just leave everything the way it is.