Thread: Wireless issue

on a side note, laggy, you are correct to change the 169.254.x.x/16 address scheme from the device. this is an IANA reserved address block for a "link local" interface. it's the ip address scheme you see when a DHCP client has a good media connection, and failed to receive an IP address from a DHCP server. it's to allow you to communicate directly to another pc on the same physical network segment in the case of a logical network segment failure (can't obtain an IP address). it is, by it's nature, not supposed to be routable. however, behind a NAT device (such as a firewall/router), you can make it routable.

it's the same theory behind the IPv6 autoconfiguration IP address (the IP address that you always see on a host with IPv6 enabled, but no IPv6 capable routers configured). the difference is that IPv6 was designed to be able to have many IP addresses at the same time, where IPv4 put it in as an afterthought. since most IPv4 users only see/use that IP scheme in the event that DHCP fails, most see it as a bad thing.