bill collier
02-01-2018, 6:21 PM
We purchased a Chinese fiber laser from Coletech and are struggling with getting the laser to connect with our PC. I see there are some Cole-tech owners on Sawmill Creek, so I'm hoping someone can help.
The instructions - such as they are - give 2 IP addresses, one for direct Cat5 cable connection and one for wireless. Here's what it says:
Set up IP Protocol 4 for IP 192.168.3.XX, with the XX being any value from 3-198.
Set subnet mask the default, which defaults to 255.255.255.0
In the marking software (which came with the laser), click on Device Management and add a device with the IP address which was set up in the first step.
Click "Connect" and the icon in the software should indicate the PC and the laser are communicating.
Instead, we get a pop-up error telling us the connection has failed. We've tried both hard wired and wireless with same results.
One of the images in their instructions show the bottom 2 fields in IP Protocol 4, DNS1 and DNS2, being blank. We've tried them blank and also tried various values in them with no results.
I suspect it's something simple that we're overlooking.
Any help appreciated!
PS - We have 2 other fiber lasers and 4 CO2 lasers from Epilog and others, so we're not complete newbies. We bought the cheap Coletech for little one-off jobs so we can keep our "real" lasers productive.
The instructions - such as they are - give 2 IP addresses, one for direct Cat5 cable connection and one for wireless. Here's what it says:
Set up IP Protocol 4 for IP 192.168.3.XX, with the XX being any value from 3-198.
Set subnet mask the default, which defaults to 255.255.255.0
In the marking software (which came with the laser), click on Device Management and add a device with the IP address which was set up in the first step.
Click "Connect" and the icon in the software should indicate the PC and the laser are communicating.
Instead, we get a pop-up error telling us the connection has failed. We've tried both hard wired and wireless with same results.
One of the images in their instructions show the bottom 2 fields in IP Protocol 4, DNS1 and DNS2, being blank. We've tried them blank and also tried various values in them with no results.
I suspect it's something simple that we're overlooking.
Any help appreciated!
PS - We have 2 other fiber lasers and 4 CO2 lasers from Epilog and others, so we're not complete newbies. We bought the cheap Coletech for little one-off jobs so we can keep our "real" lasers productive.