Got it working! Thanks Stan! Jeffery
On Jan 26, 2011, at 3:11 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: > Sorry, I meant "as Paul and Steve have suggested . . ." - I got the > questioner and responder mixed up. > > On Jan 26, 2011, at 4:08 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: > >> I just moved my Apple Airport Extreme from a Time Warner net in one state to >> a Charter net in another. Which amounts to the same thing. >> >> 1. As Paul and Jeffrey have suggested, first you need to reset your router >> and then put in the new parameters. >> a. Leave the Airport disconnected from the cable. But turn it on. >> b. Use your Mac, turn on the Airport utility. It should "see" the >> Airport. >> c. Set up the Airport with wireless network name, password, DNS, etc. >> 2. Turn off (disconnect) the cable modem. Turn off (disconnect) the router. >> 3. Link the modem to the router. >> 4. Turn both modem and router back on. >> 5. Go surfing. >> >> You can do all of the above also by direct-connecting any of the routers to >> your Mac, then using Airport utility (for Airport) or by linking to the >> router via browser (try 192.168.1.1) and making the appropriate changes. In >> any case, a key step will be powering off the cable modem after you have >> done the router re-set. >> >> stan >> >> On Jan 26, 2011, at 3:33 PM, steve harley wrote: >> >>> On 2011-01-26 12:33 , Jeffery Smith wrote: >>>> I just got switched from AT&T to Cox Internet service. They gave me a >>>> non-WiFi modem, so I tried to connect it up with one of my three previous >>>> Wi-Fi routers (Belkin, Apple, Cisco), and could get all three of the WiFi >>>> routers to work but not one of them will attach me to the Internet >>>> (through wireless or through an ethernet wire from the back). If I go >>>> directly from the back of the Cox modem to my Mac, the internet comes up. >>>> For some reason, my WiFi routers cannot seem to get the Internet signal >>>> from the modem. I tried 4 different ethernet wires (between modem and >>>> router) just to make sure that wasn't the problem. And I did make sure >>>> that the modem was connected to the right ethernet connection (ingoing, >>>> not outgoing). >>>> >>>> Is there something obvious that I'm missing here? All three routers do >>>> make a connection with my computers, but no Internet signal is detected. >>> >>> it could be any of a few things; have you double-checked the basics? for >>> one thing, the ethernet cable should go from the modem to the WAN port on >>> your router >>> >>> if the modem is keyed to only admit one MAC (not "Mac") address, you'll >>> need to spoof that address on your router; also check how the modem is >>> configured -- if the modem is doing DHCP you may need to set your router to >>> bridge mode; you may also want to check the DNS settings on the router and >>> reset them to Cox's DNS servers if they are set to the old AT&T numbers >>> (not needed if you are using something like OpenDNS or Google DNS) >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
