Samsung Series 6 TV and Comcast Network Setup
So if you’re like me and testing a cable connection with your Samsung TV and your automatic
network setup just won’t grab the gateway and DNS information here’s how to setup your connection manually with a router. In this case a Linksys WRT54G.
Type in 192.168.1.1 in a web browser on your computer and log into your router. For most of you that don’t believe that you need to secure things like this settings page, your information will be default or blank. (I don’t believe in not having simple security set up so if you need to look up the default info to log into your router I’ll let you do that before you continue by using direction from some other site). Otherwise enter the password you setup for accessing your router’s settings.
Under the Setup tab and Network Setup look at the range of DHCP addresses that you have. Choose one above this range. For example if your range is 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.110 then enter 192.168.1.111 later in the Samsung setup. This will be your IP address that you’ll use with the TV.
Check out your Subnet Mask settings here too. For most of you this will be 255.255.255.0 Record this so you can enter it in your Samsung TV’s menu later.
Since you’re connecting to a Linksys router your Gateway will probably be 192.168.1.1, if not a Linksys then use the address that you use to access your router’s setup menu in a web browser.
Now here is the tricky part. You need to get your DNS server information. On a UNIX (Linux) machine, this means a Macintosh computer as well for those of you who still don’t know that OSX is built on UNIX, you need to open a terminal (scary to those who think OSX is only graphical) and type in the following command. cat /etc/resolv.conf
(This will work for most of you, but resolv.conf stores DNS Server information that you’ve used so most of you will get 2 addresses when you type this in since Comcast will give you two DNS server addresses that will be stored in resolv.conf. One of them should work.)
Now that you’ve gathered your information press the Menu button, scroll to Plug & Play, then Network Setup, press Enter then Internet Protocol Setup, press Enter and choose Manual Setup.
Scroll down and Enter the IP Address (192.168.1.xxx (aka the one you chose outside of your normal range)), Subnet Mask (probably 255.255.255.0) Gateway (probably 192.168.1.1 if you have a Linksys Router) and one of the DNS server entries you got from using cat on the resolv.conf file. Then navigate back up to the network test option and run the test, if it fails on the DNS entry then try the other DNS address assuming there is one.
– 013 if you want to provide the DNS stuff for Windows please do. I know how to do it, but am pissed off with how much it sucks lately and do not want to provide support for it for free for at least another week.
Hi, I found everything, IP, mask, gateway and DNS (I have a 3). What I don’t get is the range.
According to my webpage, my starting IP adress is 192.164.1.100. And the maximum of DHCP users is 50. Does that mean the range is from 100 to 150? I tried 192.164.1.151 with all 3 DNS and it didn’t work.
I still get issue with the ping.
All the maximum of DHCP users setting means is that 50 users can request addresses automatically from your router at a time. It’s a way to keep everyone from grabbing addresses if your router is unsecured, busy, etc. and restricting it to 50 total users. If you are hard wired then you should be able to use an address between 192.164.1.100 and 192.164.1.150, so try something like 192.168.1.140 or something inside of that range by inputting it manually. Keep in mind that in the unlikely even that 50 people will actually connect to your router at once, any address in the 100 to 150 range can be handed out automatically, but will be handed out in order, device 1 being 100, device 2 being 101, so on and so forth (since computers like to start numbering with 0 instead of 1) usually. Still if you use an address like I suggested you will probably be ok. If you provide us with more details, like what OS you’re using, we can provide more specific details on how to list info, etc.
I’ve been digging thru the web trying to find an answer to my problem, and thought I’d post here.
I have the Samsung C6500 TV and I’m trying to connect it to a new D-Link DIR-655 Wireless router. Rather than using the Samsung adapter, I purchased a Netgear WNCE2001 Universal Adapter – basically it spoofs an ethernet connection. It will auto populate the network information (I’ve also tried manually), but it will continually fail the gateway ping, stating that it’s not connected to the gateway. It will even populate the TV in my router setup, so I can see the TV’s mac address, and I can ping the TV from the computer. I enabled WAN ping response thinking that might be the problem, but no luck.
Anyhow, just thought I would throw it out here and see if you had any ideas.
Thanks!
~John
Sorry, I haven’t tried this with a non-Samsung wireless adapter yet.
Thanks for the response..
So, it turns out Fry’s dropped the price big-time on the Samsung adapter, selling it for $43.00. Plus, it’s dual band, whereas I believe the older ones were just 2.4. So, long story short, I returned the 2.4 router that I bought and got a dual-band, plus the Samsung adapter and everything is working perfectly!