Re: Linksys BEFSR41, running cards at 100-full mode...

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Date: 10/14/02 

Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 00:21:13 GMT

"NeoSadist" <neos@dist> wrote in message
news:uqk1k6gdtkvcad@corp.supernews.com...
> First what OS are you running on each computer?
> Secondly, are you using DHCP?
> You left out a TON of info. Please reply to group.

I wasn't aware it was needed, apologies.

Initially, I was running Win98SE, and my roomates were both running
WinME. From day one we had this problem, and only discovered how
to fix it through trial and error. The problem is identical on all three
machines. If you leave the network card on default settings, you can
not see anything. The router, other computers, nothing.

One roomate and I have switched to XP in the last couple weeks,
the other still uses WinME. (I just switched over this weekend to
XP pro).

We do have DHCP enabled in the router.

I use a fixed address, and have for a long time, going back to when
I was still running Win98SE. Initially I was the only one. It was
working fine. Gave myself an address and setup my TCP/IP
properties based on instructions I was given here and other web
pages. I did this because I needed to open certain ports to play
some games online, and was told by people that I had to have
a fixed address to get it working. I don't know if that's 100%
true, but it did work.

Since then I have changed one of the two other computers to fixed
address as well, so he too could open some ports he needed. The
other wants me to do the same for him too, so since we'll all be
fixed at that point, can I disable DHCP, and will it make any
difference?

This came up as a result of my switching to XP this weekend. I
wasn't able to see the net or anything at first and figured it didn't
think about the card change right away. Once I figured it out, I got
fed up with this ongoing problem and decided to post to see if
anyone could help.

Please excuse if I'm proving to not know alot about this stuff. I'm
not an expert. Much of what I did was based on things I read and
instructions from others. I posted HERE about my problems with
the port forwarding about 6-8 months ago IIRC.

Everything in the router is setup as the "defaults", except that we
have some ports forwarded on the forwarding page. If there is
any other info I can include, I'm glad to do so. But I wasn't sure
what was needed. As I said, we were told that it was a router
setting to fix the problem, so I didn't assume that these details
were needed.

Jim

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