Recent content by Dries

Well, posting to this forum was sort of my last effort to see if I wasn't going completey beserk. As I posted in another thread somewhere, I believe routers should have a validation date on the packaging from now on. I'm not sure if someone messed with the firmware, I certainly didn't, but this...

Hmmm I'm starting to suspect that routers need a "prefer to use before xx/xx/xx" on the packaging from now on. I had problems with my US Robotics router which worked fine for 2 years but then stopped all of a sudden. They were so gentle to let the router live for an extra year since warranty is...

Well, the documents say that 192.168.123.254 IS the default ip address. But manually configuring this doesn't allow me to ping it. I was thinking my my ethernet card is a 10/100Mbit card but looking at 3com's website it might be only a 10 Mbit network card. Which should still work fine because...

Hi Deran, thanks for your reply. However, the DHCP service seems to fail to give me a proper Gateway address. (And I think the subnet mask it returns is strange as well) Here is the output of ipconfig /all: Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : latem...

Hi, I have problems reaching my USRobotics router. The model is USR988000. My aim is to connect 2 computers (1 winXP, 1 MacOSX) to the internet. My first step in this proces is reaching the router from my XP machine. I am absolutely sure that my ethernet card is installed okay. (I can connect to...