Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Bangor, ME
Posts: 10157

networking shit that is just fucked up...

well my brother is having troubles hooking up to the cable in his apartment, everyone else can hook up except him

well he came over here and tried to network with the router that is (obviously) hooked to our dsl......nothing

but for some odd reason we were able to swap files from each others computers

i deleted all the dialup networking shit, and even disabled and deleted his modem drivers, i cannot for the life of me understand what the hell is going on!!!!
i mean we are going through the router to swap files, why the fuck couldn't he access the internet with his computer?!

im baffled here, the only thing i could suggest is some odd fluke with windows and re-install

but im open to any and all suggestions you all might have to offer...

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: A New England
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If it wasn't running through the router I'd say you have NetBEUI installed, and his TCP/IP is fucked.

It does definitly pass via the router?

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Beatrice, Nebraska
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Try going to Control Panel ---> Network and remove his TCP/IP protocol settings that are bound to his cable modem/router/NIC or whatever. Reboot, bind TCP/IP to it again, set up the proper settings for it (default gateway IP, and whatever else), reboot, and see if that works.

When my DSL router stopped working it was cuz my TCP/IP settings were fucked up.

If that doesn't work, you might want to call the ISP or the tech help number they should have supplied with the cable doo-bob.

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Location: Bangor, ME
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the tcp/ip settings were fine

and my parents are hooked up through the same router, and theirs works. we hooked his up to MY network, and it didn't work...

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Maybe you've hit the max number of people you can run through that router with the bandwidth available?

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nope sp, it was the same cable for my parents, we just hooked it up to his computer

and there are four spots on the router

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The router dynamically assigns the IP?

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yes goatboy

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Location: Beatrice, Nebraska
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DHCP?

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192.168.0.1

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side note: WTF happened to our mods?
*stamps foot*
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[This message has been edited by AlcoholSoopaFiend (edited 03-16-2001).]

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Maybe it should work, but I don't like the last two octets. I think, and I'm no networking expert by any means, that ".0.1" might be a problem. Maybe not.

Just to make absolutely sure, are all the IP addresses of the computers hooked to the router 192.168.0.*?

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Bangor, ME
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ok here we go

my computer is fine, my parents is fine
we can swap files and connect to the internet
the router ip is: LAN Port :
IP Address : 192.168.0.1 DHCP : Server
IP Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.0

thats what it automatically uses out of the box

my computer: 192.168.0.2
parents: 192.168.0.3
brothers was: 192.168.0.4
gateway same as router (duh): 192.168.0.1

its my brothers computer that was having the problems


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As per request. Here my two penneth. You said your brother could not access the net. Can he ping the route? Why don;t you specify the Gateway to assign IP with DHCP on the network and see what happens?

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