Hi guys, i seem to have encountered a problem. I want to plug my somputer straight into my cable feed. Without going through a router. Problem is, when i do so, i dont get a connection. Look at attached scribbling for my setup. When i switch the blue cable (My computer) with the green one, i should be pluged right in, but apparently not. Please help, i really need to connect without a firewall.
You could just disable your router’s firewall.
Don’t you mean “The Sushi Man Requires Your Help” ?
ROFL,
I couldn’t read what you were saying because I was laughing so hard with the blueprints you attached… :lol:
Hmm - taking your green wire and simply attaching one end to modem and another end to your PC should work.
When you do so, goto Run, type in ‘ipconfig /release’ w/o quotes and wait til a dos window flashes. Wait a few seconds, goto Run again and type in ‘ipconfig /renew’ w/o quotes and wait until the dos window closes. You’re not getting connection because your computer still tries to find the old DCHP which is changed.
Wow. ok Thanks Maxtr0sity. I will try that.
@Kirupa, that is basically what i was trying.
Update: Still seems broked.
Try this:
Go to Control Panel>Network Connections>Local Area Connection (right click, properties) then do the properties of the Internet Protocol thing, and then you can put in your change it to “Use the following IP Address” and put in w/e your connection’s IP is. There’s also other boxes below that you will need to fill out. Subnet mask is usually 255.255.255.0 .
I think you have to get your DNS information from your ISP. Maybe you wrote it down somewhere already.
I can’t guarantee that will work, but I think it has a chance.
Try to set it on automatic first though, mine’s on auto. Before I learned to open some ports, I did the same thing and the ipconfig thingy worked. Also, try internet settings, make sure if you’re still using IE, it’s configured, try FF if you haven’t.
I tried to not use a router, just a switch with 2 comps and a modem pluged into it, didn’t work. Not what you asked but i thought I would say that.
i’m not sure about cable, but for my adsl it required PPoE login. perhaps there’s some kind of logging in you need to setup that was previously done by your router.
@ cr125 - I have to use this router, it’s my mother’s company policy, Don’t ask.
@ Everyone else. Thanks for the help, but for some reson my DL rates have skyrocketed. No idea why. Bittorrent Loves me now though.
get to network connections
right click the connection icon
scroll down and find tcp/ip then click properties
set to automatic
click ok or close
click ok or close again
right click the connection icon
select disable
the icon should turn gray
disconnect the ethernet cable from your computer
go to start
then run
then type “cmd” in the blank and click ok
at the black box type
“nbtstat -R”
it should say something like “successful purge and preload of the NBT remote cache and name table”
type exit
go to your modem
disconnect the power
disconnect the coax cable
unplug the ethernet cord from it
wait about 30 seconds
plug the coax cable back into the modem
then connect the power
allow the modem to start up - should take about 30seconds - you will see the lights blink on, then they should come and start doing that pulse blink deal
plug the other end of your blue cable(the one that was in the router)
into the back of the modem
plug the other end(where your computer is) back into your computer
right click the connection icon
and select “enable”
start internet explorer
Thanks!
when you plug it back into the router - so everyone can use it - you will have to do kind of the same thing - only unplug all the computers from the router when you do it -
the router pulls the IP information from the modem and pseudo stores it - then assigns all of the computers connected IPs. If you just plug and unplug often times the IPs will hang up and be stored. the router has to know that connection was terminated and then restored.
so you would unplug your computer from the modem
power it down disconnect the coax
unplug the computers out of the router.
power down the router.
plug the cable modem back up and wait for it to start up-
plug the router back into the modem
power up the router
plug the computers back into the router.
if the computers are running windows 2000 or xp they shouldnt need to restart.
now your computer might need to disable and renable the lan connection like we did above to refresh the IP assigned to it - hopefully the router will push it down to you.
