At&t 2wire 2700HG-B Basic Dsl Wireless Router Setup
If you are reading this document, you probably are looking for on how to set up your new At&t 2wire dsl router. Throughout this document I will be using a 2wire 2700HG-B wireless router, but this tutorial will also apply to other routers that 2wire provides At&t with.
The first thing to do when setting up your 2wire dsl router is plug the dsl filters into all your phone jacks, where you plan having a telephone. On one of the dsl filters, you should see a dual filter that reads Phone and DSL/HPNA, on the side that says DSL/HPNA plug a phone line into this port, then run the other end of the phone line into the phone port on the back of the 2wire dsl router.
After you have connected the phone line, plug a ethernet cable into port 1 of the router, then connect the other end of the ethernet cable into your pc. Once you have made the connections between your pc and the dsl modem, and the modem and the dsl filter. You can then plug in the power adapter into the router, then plug the power adapter into the wall outlet.
Once the 2wire dsl router powers up, you should see a green light next to power, ethernet, and dsl. Once you see these lights turn green on your 2wire router, the next that you need to do is open a web browser such as Internet Explorer. After you open your web browser, you should see a windows that resembles the one below. Once you see this window, press the next button, which should then ask you to download the 2wire dsl setup tool.exe.
Once you have installed the 2wire dsl setup tool, the 2wire gateway authentication screen should open, simply select the yes button.
After you have authenticated your 2wire router, you must set an administrative password for your router. I recommend setting a password with upper and lower case, with a few numbers for security reasons. This password will come in handy if you are trying to change settings on your 2wire router. To access the router in the future to change any settings, simply type 192.168.1.254 into your web browser.
After you have set a password for your router, click the next button to begin registering your 2wire modem with At&t.
After you have registered your router, read through the agreement then click I Agree button. After you have accepted the agreement with At&t sbc yahoo dsl, you will need to create a user name and password for your dsl account. To begin setting up your new user name and password enter you land line telephone number that you have received from At&t.
After you have created your new username and password, there will be another progress screen, then click the finish button. After you have completed the about steps, close down your current browser and reboot your computer, this will resolve any network problems. After you pc reboots open you web browser and being surfing the internet with your at&t 2wire dsl router.
If you are interested in port forwarding on your 2wire router, open a web browser and type in 192.168.1.254 into the URL address bar. Once you have clicked the submit button and window resembling the one below should appear. The password that you created earlier for you 2wire router, will be the one you use here when changing setting on your 2wire dsl router.
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I set up the 2-wire two years ago and it recently died so I bought a new one. Do I have to go through the same set up again? Do I have to uninstall the old one?
I am now using a laptop instead of a desktop. Do I have to plug the ethernet cable into the laptop?
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You will have to set it up again, but all you should have to do is set your username and password into the router. The username and password is the one you originally setup when you first installed the router. You can enter the username and password by going typing 192.168.1.254 into the address bar in a web browser. You need to have a ethernet cable plugged into port 1 on the router. Once the gateway screen open click on the Broadband link tab then on Advanced Settings. Type in your username and password and make sure the sure the connection type is set to PPPoe. If this doesn’t work, call At&t or you isp on how to set it up to their dsl service.
It needs to download 2wire_DSL_setup_tool.exe but it says Internet explorer cannot download it, and they did not send a disk, So im on another computer hoping to find the .exe and burn it to a cd and use it on other pc. Is there a way?
After you have connected the computer to the router, try typing in this addresss: https://sbcreg.sbcglobal.net/
Also take a look at this setup guide that I wrote for Mandriva Linux. I had the same type of problem when setting it up on a linux pc. Even though you are probably using a Windows based pc, this guide could help you troubleshoot the problem. http://www.server-servers.com/install-att-yahoo-dsl-linux-os/
Yes I would like to know if you guys can HELP me out to get my AT&T 2 wire 2701HG-B gateway wireless router with DSL modem up running
And also when I get the DSL modem from my brother law I think I did get the right software for this 2 wireless DSL modem 2701HG-B Gateway
So I hope you guys can HELP me out ok
My 2Wire is all set up and running. However, I’d like to delete or remove a couple of the devices (computers) that are now inactive. How do I remove these inactive devices? There is no place in the web UI for removing devices.
You can’t really remove the devices, but there is a setting to disable viewing inactive devices. Go to the gateway screen (192.168.1.254), then click on the Home network tab at the top of the screen. Once inside the home network tab, click on the advanced settings. At the bottom of the advanced settings screen you will see a option for Display Settings. Uncheck the box for “Show inactive devices in network list”. Hope this help you.
Dustin
Thanks Dustin. I noticed that option for disabling the viewing of inactive devices, I tried that but it did not help my situation. The problem is that I have a computer on the home network and it is one of those inactive devices. That computer is unable to get IP address (gets 169.x.x.x). If I’m not able to remove the device I’d like to re-activate it. Currently the computer is a device on the home network that is unable to get on the internet due to inability to get IP address. So, if I cannot remove device I’d like to re-activate it. How do I do that? Thanks.
There has to be a reason why your computer is not getting a ip address. 169.x.x.x is the default for a pc that is not getting a ip address. I would need more information to solve this problem for you. You could reset the modem, by holding the reset button on the router for 10 – 30 seconds, but you need to know what your router username and password is. You could call At&t for this information but could be on the phone for a while. I don’t know if you have a prewired network or how you have the cabling installed.
Try running a different ethernet cable from the router to the computer. What mean is disconnect the router and install it right next to the pc and use a different ethernet cable. You should be able to aquire a ip address from the router, but you won’t have any internet at that time. At least you would be able to determine if you have a bad cable, ethernet card or router. If you could please give me more info, I will gladly help you out.
I have 2wire from Bell, but I’m not with Bell, I’m with Acanac Inc. Bell done the Drive-loop for Acanac to serve me internet. However I am unable to by-pass the Bell Welcome Page. Please, is there anyway to do that?
I’ve encountered a recent problem. I am no longer using the 2wire setup, but now I cannot connect to the internet via anythin else. Although I can connect to the new router f wirelessly as well as direct LAN or even the modem itsel. Is there a way to uninstall anything that was involved with 2wire? or to disable those drivers to allow myself to connect to a new network connnection.
Francisco, the 2Wire 2700 and 2701 are just DSL PPP0E routers with wireless capabilities, all you need to do is configure it with your user name and password from what ever DSL ISP provider you have by going to the gateway screen (192.168.1.254) and it should connect, I have AT&T and upgraded to U-Verse and with my extra 2700HG-B I had a friend with Verizon that I configured it for with no problem.
I have the 2wire gateway 2701hg-b through AT&T. I had no idea this was a wireless router. How can I add my laptop to this device (wirelessly)? My printer, as well?
Thanks.
I figured out how to get my laptop on the network….but don’t see an ADD button for new peripherals, so that I can add my laser printer. It’s an hplaserjet4300dtnsl. I’ll play around with this a little more. I just may figure it out…