Alright… so after formatting and getting all my securities and junk back onto my computer it is time to connect to the internet.
Here’s the deal:
I’m connected to a HUB which is connected to a CABLE MODEM and then the INTERNET… there’s 2 other computer connected to this HUB…
So I’m trying to get on the internet, so I’ve been messin’ around with the Network Wizard and Internet Wizard and piss, but nothing is working.
I’m told by the douche that sits across from me that I don’t need the IP or anything like that to get connected, that it’ll do it all automatically… well, so far nothing is happening automatically.
Anybody know what I am supposed to do to get hooked up?
humm how many computers 3 well you cant have them all on at the same time only 2 turn one of them off. unless your behind a router. then you can have more…
if you’re going to lan it up, and dont have a router, look into bridging the connections on another computer. i dont remember if that takes 2 network cards thuogh. but that might be a quick fix. for a permanent fix, it is really gay and not fixy at all.
I was connected to the Internet as of Yesterday Morning through an independant connection, where my Network Cable runs upstairs into the Router or Modem or whatever it is… so there’s no “Only 2 computers can run at once” bull tootie because we have 4 computers running at once, one of which is on a Wireless router or hub or whatever…
If you had 3 or 4 computers, you were connected to a router. The other ones can surf, yes?
Go to start-run type CMD for a command prompt
ipconfig [enter] will tell you what ip the router gave you.
if it’s 169.xxx.xxx.xxx or 0.0.0.0 it’s stuck
type ipconfig /release [enter] to let it go
then type ipconfig /renew[enter] to pick it up properly.
type ipconfig [enter] again and your router should heve given you
an address like 192.168.xxx.xxx
if it did, you just need to tell Explorer tools-internet propertiess-connections to never dial and (LAN SSETTINGS) auto detect.
Usually you need to do this before NEtscape, Mozilla or Opera will work, it’s got to figure out the proxy settings. the router does the rest.
If it doesn’t pick up its 192 address & you’re using a network cable, check it isn’t a crossover & your NIC is enabled.
If you have a wireless card, scream for Jason he knows a few trix. If you need wireless drivers I can supply them
I just wiped a guys drive on Sat and upgraded him to XP home. I got my disk from MSoft w all the Windows updates (well all as of Feb 28) and ran it, and next boot the modem and NIC were gone. If I put them back in from OEM CD, they got erased on reboot. Then I rolled back driver thru XP and they stayed. Nutz.
NO im still lookin on ebay… im looking for a dual g4 500mhz for my server… then ill buy copy of Panther server and run my webserver / mail server / file server…
