On Tuesday 23 January 2007 12:41, Greg Wallace wrote: > Well John, I went down to Fry's today and bought a Netgear 4 port router. I > tried to set it up and it couldn't even connect to my ISP, which is cable > modem and assigns ip addresses automatically (so how could it fail to get > the address?). So, I plugged my leaky Belkin router back in and was up and > running again immediately. I guess I'll try a D-Link router next.
Are you SURE you plugged the WAN port into the cable modem? Did power cycle the router after plugging it in? I submit that if Netgear couldn't even get an ip on a cable modem they would have long since gone out of business. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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