<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dan,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think there’s a bit of confusion here. From what you’re describing about pinging google, and the screenshot you provided, the modem is getting an IP from the network properly, and has full communications.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think what you’re seeing is that your laptop/computer connected to the modem may not be getting an IP address, which wouldn’t come from the network, but instead from the modem itself.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In step 12 of the client configuration instructions we have you disable the modem from providing DHCP to devices to make sure the modem doesn’t interfere with your home network if you plug it in there. If you plug the modem into your home network, you can give it an IP on your network on the modem’s ethernet interface, or if you plan on it being a separate network where DHCP wouldn’t interfere, you can add that back to the ethernet interface as well.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This latter scenario is described in the “Next Steps” section of the client configuration instructions page, but we don’t make it the default because everyone’s use case will be different.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Nigel</div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 17, 2016, at 18:07, Daniel Ransom <<a href="mailto:danra995@yahoo.com" class="">danra995@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453072791088_19046" class="">Bart,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453072791088_19047" dir="ltr" class="">Thanks for the advice on the QRT-5. It looks very nice; I might upgrade to that. With my vertically polarized sector antenna I found -77 dBm this afternoon, and when I rotated the antenna 90 degrees (now horizontal) my best was -88 dBm. Again, this is a line-of-sight path at 5 feet above the ground (possible Fresnel-zone problem?).<br class=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453072791088_19023" dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453072791088_19401" dir="ltr" class="">Today I had good results with my MikroTik Metal 5SHPn transceiver modem (reprogrammed with v6.32.3) and the sector antenna. This time my connection attempt was mostly okay! I could see network activity on tool > traceroute 8.8.8.8 (see attached), and I could ping <a href="http://google.com" class="">google.com</a>, averaging around 80 ms (median about 40 ms). However, I could not get an IP address from the network. Any ideas why?<br class=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453072791088_19022" class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453072791088_19244" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453072791088_19402" class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453072791088_19244" class="">So, next it's up into the trees behind my house (tomorrow). Already I have a dacron rope there--placed with my trusty KR4LO Air Boss pneumatic line launcher. Down the tree and into the hamshack it's 330 feet, so I'm right at the edge of the maximum cable run. Definitely, I will be injecting 24 Vdc!</span></div><br class=""> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453072791088_18975" class="qtdSeparateBR"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453072791088_19842" class="">73 from Dan at K7MM</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453072791088_19824" class="">509 330 6398<br class=""></div></div><div style="display: block;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453072791088_18963" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453072791088_18962" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453072791088_18961" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453072791088_18965" class="y_msg_container"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453072791088_18974" size="2" face="Arial" class=""> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453072791088_18976" size="1" class=""><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453072791088_19186" class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453072791088_19185" style="font-weight:bold;" class=""></span></b></font><div class="yqt6777862686" id="yqtfd81427">_______________________________________________<br clear="none" class="">PSDR mailing list<br clear="none" class=""><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:PSDR@hamwan.org" href="mailto:PSDR@hamwan.org" class="">PSDR@hamwan.org</a><br clear="none" class=""><a shape="rect" href="http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr" target="_blank" class="">http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr</a><br clear="none" class=""></div><br class=""><br class=""></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div><span id="cid:0b1f29e2-7d15-ff62-e6ab-2a686e376447@yahoo.com"><Sector Antenna Metal 5SHPn .JPG></span><span id="cid:94a5a979-891c-eda8-6764-6c9aad46116d@yahoo.com"><K7MM Vert Sector Metal S5 Collins Rd 20160117_1644 .png></span>_______________________________________________<br class="">PSDR mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:PSDR@hamwan.org" class="">PSDR@hamwan.org</a><br class="">http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>