Adding my ADSL to my existing wireless network… Help!?

Adding my ADSL to my existing wireless network… Help!?
Evening all,

I have recently moved house. At my old place I had cable internet connected with Optus using the standard Motorolla modem and my netgear router. I have recently moved and have connected ADSL 2+ with Optus and now have a different (sagem) modem and the same netgear router. I have tried to set up the wireless connection in my new place (connecting the internet, my wireless printer/scanner thingy and mine and my partners laptops) but I just can’t seem to get it right. The internet connects fine on my laptop (Dell) but the printer is sporatically offline and my partner can connect to the network locally, but cannot connect to the internet and the printer is offline too.

The current network is the same as the old one, so I was thinking that it might be best to delete the network entirely and start again, but theres a catch. I cant get into my router, because it seems my ip address is changed from the standard 192.168.1.x and i can’t seem to get it to reset.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I am willing to get a pro in to fix it, but I would really like to try it myself.

Best answer:

Basically you’ve changed from Cable internet to DSL. You need to setup your DSL Connection in your NetGear Router under connection type. I imagine it’s PPPOE which requires a username and password to authenticate to Optus.
Use an ethernet cable to connect to your router and manually give yourself an IP address of 192.168.1.10. You should be able to login now and change the connection type from cable to PPPOE and enter your user name and password provided by Optus.

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