Alright, here's the deal. I just recently got cable internet and now for some reason my computers just cant manage to see one another...so therefore, no backups, no remote printing, no nothing...Ill give you an idea of the layout. I have three computers all in different rooms, that attach to a switch and then the cable modem's ethernet cable attaches to the uplink port on the switch... Before I had ricochet internet which was on my main desktop, richochet is a wireless internet that uses a usb modem. I compared the Ip addresses, the subnet masks and the default gateways to eachother and they were all different, and now if try to change them to the same thing, the internet doesnt work....so what can i do to fix this problem, because i would really like to be able to back up my important docs and print and such items as that...Thanks in advance...
I think your flaw is having a switch, and no router... You need a router to seperate the Internet from the LAN, and dish out IP's (and a whole lot of other things). A switch just won't cut it... EDIT: Damn you Doug
Much appreciated guys, I will defenitley go pick one up soon, ill let you all know if it works after that or not...
And it probably has a switch integrated too? That might be the reason they call it a Modem/router/switch combo
Well I purchased a Linksys Broadband Router with Speed Booster and Wireless G integrated...everything works seamlessly now, thanks for all you help guys. I appreciate it...Sincerely, Colin
wOOt I beat Casey (on a network topic) But serious guys, we are starting to look like "the good, the bad and the ugly"... And not much longer untill the mod's will rain upon us...
