So I switched from cable to ADSL, but didn’t check if my wireless router could work out of the box. Well, it turned out that it could because I could surf the Internet just fine, or so I thought.
By not changing the settings to accomodate the ADSL modem, there was a weird phenomenon happening that caused frequent time-outs, FTP uploads failing, MSN messages not being sent or received properly, message loss, and the dreaded Page “Unable To Display” message in your browser until you refresh.
With such a host of problems, I did more research on my network configuration and tried to get my SpeedTouch ST536 ADSL modem to work with my Belkin wireless router properly. In fact, I was about to flash the SpeedTouch and get everything working in a bridge-mode setup until I discovered that there was an easier way!
If you think about it — the SpeedTouch can actually function as a router, and you can just use your wireless router as an access point. It means you don’t really fully maximise your router’s capabilities, but by using this setup, you ensure the fastest and most optimal way to configure your network.
How To Configure Your Wireless Router
In order for this configuration to work, you’ll need to do just a few things, in this order:
1.) Change your wireless router’s IP to 192.168.1.2 (it most probably was 192.168.2.1 or 192.168.0.1 etc.)
2.) Disable DHCP (dynamic IP assignment) in your wireless router’s configuration panel
3.) Plug the ST536 modem’s cable into your wireless router’s LAN port (not WAN port or MODEM port). This is the same type of port that your computer is connected to your router by.
4.) Disconnect and connect any computers that are currently connected to your network.
Done! 
This method worked for me, and I’m darn happy with my network now!
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August 29th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
By using the speedstream as modem cum router and the wireless router as a switch, can I still access the wireless router with a WIFI laptop?
Thanks in advance
August 29th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
yup you can, that’s what i’m doing
October 23rd, 2008 at 11:01 pm
DANG Alvin!!!!!!
I really had some doubts about your solution but, hell yeah!!!!
it works like a charm
Brilliant man, you are just brilliant
Thanks for the fix
October 23rd, 2008 at 11:46 pm
no problems
December 6th, 2008 at 11:40 am
I did the same thing, but did not take down the ip address of the access point, now i need to go in to setup the wireless encryption, how do i get in?
December 6th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Hmm if you’re using Win 2000 or Windows XP, these steps should do the trick:
1) Click on Start
2) Go to Run
3) Type in: cmd
4) At the prompt, type: ipconfig /all
The gateway listed for your network adaptor is also your access point’s IP address
January 10th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Works great for me too via Linksys wrt54G with ddwrt firmware. Was going to find the long way of bridging it till i stumble onto your blog. Thanks mate!!
April 12th, 2009 at 6:05 am
Hi Alvin, I guess I need your help here. Currently I’m using SingNet broadband and I want to change my ISP to Starhub (wireless broadband). My question is.. to setup the wireless network can I use back the SPEEDTOUCH ST536 modem given by SingNet? Or must I get a wireless modem router?
April 12th, 2009 at 11:17 am
You mean Starhub’s mobile broadband? In any case, the SPEEDTOUCH ST536 modem is an ADSL modem configured to SingNet’s settings, so you can’t run it with Starhub’s cable network, or mobile broadband network. You’ll need to get a wireless router if you’re changing to Starhub and want more than 1 connection.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:37 am
Hi Alvin
This has worked well for me, I can now access my network through the wireless, I can access the admin page of the modem (speedtouch 536) however I cannot get access to the internet. If I put the ethernet cable to the computer I can access the internet, but not when I use wireless. Do you have any ideas what I would need to do to get internet access.
Thanks
Jon
October 15th, 2009 at 7:57 am
Hi Jon,
your comment is really nice with have a good info…..keep it up.
October 18th, 2009 at 4:46 am
I managed to fix it.
Changed the IP of the wireless router to 192.168.1.2
Then I entered an IP address for my computer 192.168.1.100, and default gateway as 192.168.1.254 (speedtouch IP) I took the Cable from the speedtouch out of the WAN and connected it via the standard port.
It worked..
Thanks again anyway.
Jon
March 7th, 2010 at 5:07 am
Hi there, just wanted to say what a great hand this was, we were about to sell our router and try a new one, as our belkin router wouldn't work with xbox live and voip, but using your method, everything works great! Thanks so much
March 25th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
hi, i have a st536 as well, but i have no idea how to set it up through router. this is wad i did.
1. i set up the st536 into bridge mode thru ie via the ip address of the modem.
2. connected the modem to my linksys wrt160nv2 router. left every configuration as it is, except, i put connection type to pppoe and keep conection alive by redialling every 30s. also, i set dhcp reservation to enabled.
3. i connected the modem's cable to router's “internet” port. and connected the pc to router thru the “pc1″ port.
is there anything i did wrong? cause im experiencing unstable connection. it will randomly disconnect and reconnect on and off and it happend quite a lot of times for a day.. please advise me thoroughly as im not very tech savvy. thx a lot for ur help. (:
June 25th, 2011 at 4:18 pm
Hi Alvin, I am using a Thomson ST536 (non-wifi) connected via ethernet cable to a Linksys WRT54GL (tomato firmware) and I would like to DISABLE the router features of the ST536… this is because I want to avoid “double NAT” as it probably is the case right now. Will your setup do the job? Thanks, Rykel
June 25th, 2011 at 8:39 pm
Yup, sounds like it would
August 6th, 2011 at 12:17 pm
Alvin. Only two words: THANK YOU.
January 30th, 2012 at 6:58 am
Hi Alvin,
Thanks for your blog.. It help me a lot!
Once again, Thanks!
Cheers!