Router Problems

[SAHALL98]

My nephew called me and has problems. He just moved into a house with three other guys, (I told you he had problems!) and cannot get his internet working. They have Roadrunner cable modem and a router. The other three computers get the internet fine. He has Win 98, they have XP and 2000. He has a green light on his NIC, plus blinking yellow light. His workgroup is the same as the others. He had Roadrunner at his old house by himself with the same NIC and has not changed any settings. It only gives a Page Not Found error. Does he have to enter the address of the router or run a setup cd?

[omendata]

Try a winipcfg?
See if he is getting a valid address!

Try renewing the ip address!

ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
You can do that within the winipcfg dialogue box!

Was he using a different router at the old house?

[SAHALL98]

At his old house, he had no router. It was just him and a cable modem. Now he wants to connect to the router.

[the_mac]

he has to call the local road runner offices to get his modem registered there. depending on how far he moved, its worth a try though.

[Picard]

Originally posted by the_mac
he has to call the local road runner offices to get his modem registered there. depending on how far he moved, its worth a try though.

He should not need to do that, he's connecting thru a router, unless he took his modem with him. The other two are able to connect, though, so that is not likely the problem.

If the router is not set to assign ip addresses, he'll have to set a static address on his PC, with the router's lan address set as both the gateway and dns server. Following omendata's suggestion can help determine if the router's DHCP is functioning. It does not matter what the workgroup is for this purpose.

[comp_nut]

from experience having xp and win98 computers connected to
my router cause problems,the computer with xp on it always
took over even thou the win 98 one setup the router

solution for me i had to log on to the router [192.168.2.1 ] SMC
and setup again

btw most carriers don't like you sharing internet access

[the_mac]

Originally posted by Picard
He should not need to do that, he's connecting thru a router, unless he took his modem with him. The other two are able to connect, though, so that is not likely the problem.

If the router is not set to assign ip addresses, he'll have to set a static address on his PC, with the router's lan address set as both the gateway and dns server. Following omendata's suggestion can help determine if the router's DHCP is functioning. It does not matter what the workgroup is for this purpose.

sorry, didnt catch that, im a little out of it.;)

[omendata]

Just say no!

[the_mac]

Originally posted by omendata
Just say no!

Thats not what i meant, not at the time atleast.

[bubbalou32]

Originally posted by comp_nut

btw most carriers don't like you sharing internet access [/B]

The whole purpose of a router is to share a broadband connection. I checked into it with my service (RR thru Time Warner) when I got first connected and the only condition was that they would not support the router if I had problems. Their only concern is that they only see one IP address.

One year later they were selling routers themselves as an "added service".

I would consider broadband service to be overpriced if a had to pay for each PC connected.

[the_mac]

Originally posted by bubbalou32
The whole purpose of a router is to share a broadband connection.

actually the whole purpose of a router is to provide NAT and therefore slow down the problem of ip addressing limits.

;)

[omendata]

Cannabis also slows ye down mac.....

Just say no!

Maybe ye were tripping and the router was actually a gigantic rat at the time - tweaking its nose isnt going to give you more bandwidth!
:D

[the_mac]

Originally posted by omendata
Cannabis also slows ye down mac.....

Just say no!

Maybe ye were tripping and the router was actually a gigantic rat at the time - tweaking its nose isnt going to give you more bandwidth!
:D

lol, i hope you werent referring to my ip addressing limits thing when you talk about more bandwidth. :)

That was funny though. But what i am talking about is the problem that there are only so many ip address in ip version 4, so routers solve this by creating another network which is able to access the network on the other side of the router, this is what nat is, network address translation.

and yes, the cannabis does slow me down ;)

[omendata]

Yeah it doeeeeeeeessssss doeeeeeesnt ittttttt...............