Still struggling with internet connection to Haiku

What I have found is that:
1) I can ping to the local host (127.0.0.1)
2) I can ping to the OS IP (right now it's set at 192.168.1.0)
3) Cannot ping to anything else

Another thing I found is that the Network Preferences box seems to go back to Static from DHCP when I shut it down. I thought that perhaps, as my router is not set up to accept static IPs, it was getting confused with this and this was the reason for me not being able to get an Internet connection.
Still asking questions in the forums but getting few answers and , up to now, no valuable answers.