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Posted by Bill M. on October 4, 2005, 6:02 pm
On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 13:44:22 -0400, Tom Stiller
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>> Just got married and moved in with my wife, who has Comcast cable broadband.
>> (Had previously been on Verizon DSL.) She has a Motorola SB1500 SURFboard
>> cable modem and a LINKSYS BEFSR41 router; runs Windows XP Home. (Pretty
>> sure it's SP2.)
>>
>> Looking at the quick setup guide for the router, I tried plugging my Windows
>> XP Home SP2 box in. Didn't work. Tried a few things, then finally got it
>> to work when I found that I can get one computer (but not both) running
>> broadband. Pattern seems to be that the one I plug into port 1 (or whatever
>> it's called) on the router works, but not the other.
>>
>> Any suggestions on how I can get both to work simultaneously? I did some
>> web/USENET searches on this, and can't quite figure it out. (I went to the
>> admin web page for the router, and it says it's set up for 50 PCs, not
>> merely 1.)
>>
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>A couple of things. The cable modem should be plugged into the "WAN"
>port and port 1 is connected internally, but with reversed directional
>sense, to the "Uplink" port
I don't think the BEFSR41 has that relationship between Port 1 and the
WAN (Internet) port, and there is no "Uplink" port. Some older
equipment was like that, though.
>If the router has DHCP enabled, you should configure your computers to
>seek a DHCP IP assignment from IP address 192.168.1.1. If DHCP is not
>enabled, manually assign the computers IP addresses in the range
>192.168.1.[1..254]
Eek! <g> 192.168.1.1 is already in use by the router's LAN port, so
your example for the computers should be 192.168.1.[2..254].
>You should also specify the router's address (192.168.1.1) as the DNS
>server.
Sorry to be nit picky, I'm just trying to avoid confusion.
--
Bill
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