Recent content by nathank

Aluminum dissipates heat better. Not sure about the rest since I can't afford one.

As far as the cable goes...a dedicated line is better because once you start splitting the cable (like most TV coax is done at least once or twice) you lose signal power as well as quality. It's ok for the TV because they require a pretty crappy signal level. However, your modem is very picky...

I think you would only need a crossover if you're connecting unlike ports. If you're going from one uplink to the uplink on the hub you can use regular cable. likewise for the normal ports. If you go from uplink to regular use crossover. I'm pretty sure this is how it'd work but you may want...

First(if you haven't tried this already)...try and connect a PC that's unable to get online directly to the modem. If you're still unable to get online try pinging a popular IP address like yahoo's. If you can ping out you have a Winsock or at least some kind of Windows issue. If you can't...

I would recommend the second one. Taking CCNA courses and just do a little studying for Net+ on the way. There's some things on Net+ not covered in CCNA, so you might want to pick up a book for it. Net+ is definitley one you can handle on your own, without paying for training.

yes, plug the correct end of the ide cable into your secondary drive. Also, to set the jumper just refer to the manual if you still have it, otherwise if you're lucky your jumpers on the old hard driver are marked. As long as the old hard drive is using a file format recognizable by your OS...

I really don't know a whole lot about DHCP, but I believe you can give out IP's with DHCP by MAC ID for each NIC. I think it just pulls the same IP for each machine every time they boot up. By not specifying the outsiders MAC's in your DHCP table they shouldn't be able to pull IP's.

Does Cox use DHCP or static? I was thinking it was just a DHCP issue, where the routers don't want a new IP address. Also, what brand of modems are you using?

I'd like to pick one up, however my wife controls the checkbook. I guess I'll have to start strategically planting hacker articles around the house. I'm not sure the lease time for IP's but I believe it's around 7 days. Because it's not required for us to know that sort of thing it's basically...

Thanks Remy, but you don't have to go through any extra trouble. I was just hoping there was some generic setting out there that I could recommend to eliminate too many call-backs. I don't use a router myself so I wasn't really all that familiar with their internal support or differences across...

There shouldn't be any added hassle with hooking the hub up to the router. It's just like splitting one port into 4.

OK, the ISP uses DHCP. The routers need to be rebooted quite a bit. Is it possible they don't function well using DHCP? Most of these routers are probably pretty low price Best Buy kind. Any kind of generic setting that will prevent this? As soon as the router is rebooted everything is OK...

Sounds like a virus. If you don't have any anti-virus download the klez removal utility from downloads.com

You don't need NetBeui for your SB Modem. It's non-routable without a big headache so Im' pretty sure you could just remove that. You could probably get rid of one of those dial-ups too. If you remove both and reboot I believe one of them should come back.

Yeah, I have some ERD's, I'm just lazy. But at this point it seems the easiest way to get rid of the error. Thanks all.