setting up my router

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xjsc16x
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 22:51    Post subject: setting up my router Reply with quote
My dad just got the internet set up in his house through the cable company. I plugged in his old linksys router and the internet was not being recieved either through wiring or wireless (works when the comp is plugged in directly from modem). So I brought my e1000 v2.1 with dd-wrt and set it up, still no luck. I looked at the default gateway through ipconfig and it is 97.81.40.1 weird?? Anyways, please help I can't figure out how to set it up :/

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 23:35    Post subject: Reply with quote
Did you try rebooting the cable modem before you connected it to the a new device? I have often had trouble getting things to work if I have made any changes in the vicinity of the modem. Rebooting the cable modem before connecting it to anything different usually gets things going.
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xjsc16x
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 12:27    Post subject: Reply with quote
Dougz wrote:
Did you try rebooting the cable modem before you connected it to the a new device? I have often had trouble getting things to work if I have made any changes in the vicinity of the modem. Rebooting the cable modem before connecting it to anything different usually gets things going.


I have not. Will try as soon as I get home from work, so that I don't mess with his cable hahah.
xjsc16x
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 21:42    Post subject: Reply with quote
Dougz wrote:
Did you try rebooting the cable modem before you connected it to the a new device? I have often had trouble getting things to work if I have made any changes in the vicinity of the modem. Rebooting the cable modem before connecting it to anything different usually gets things going.


Justin tried it and it works now ^_^ hahah thanks man, I thought that it would have been a lot more complicated but it looks like I was mistaken.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 15:40    Post subject: Reply with quote
There's another nifty feature that could prove to be useful in the future is rebooting is not an option. Under Setup->MAC Address Clone, there is an option to spoof the MAC address. You can use this to disguise the router as the original computer.
xjsc16x
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 18:09    Post subject: Reply with quote
Mechy09 wrote:
There's another nifty feature that could prove to be useful in the future is rebooting is not an option. Under Setup->MAC Address Clone, there is an option to spoof the MAC address. You can use this to disguise the router as the original computer.


Actually, I tried that on both routers and surprisingly it didn't work.
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