2Wire Home Portal + Router Question

[EricW]

Recently, charter comm changed the way they give out IP addresses in my area (Dallas), and at that point, my 2Wire HomePortal (100?) ceased to work. The tech support said it was trying to allocate IP's in a forbidden range or some such. They suggested I get a router (I have to pay for each additional IP now).

So would a config like this:

Cable Modem->Router->HomePortal->Ethernet Hub and a Phone network as well.... work?

Thanks in advance.

 

[ericboo]

Sounds fishy. Your Homeportal should get an IP from your ISP and then distribute internal IP's via DHCP (which is the way I assume it works). Can you configure your portal to get an IP? Did they used to have static IP's and switched to dynamic?

If your portal does no network address translation, you could just add a router like your config shows, but you should not need a hub. The router will have 4 ports, where you can plug the Homeportal into one, and any other computers into the remaining ports via ethernet, if needed.

 

[EricW]

The homeportal *seemed* to remember which PC's were on the network and didn't want to "forget" about them, even when they weren't in the network itself. I searched for documentation on how to make it forget, but never found any. The IP's were always "dynamic", but they changed the way they were handed out or some such (No more free IP's), and the ranges themselves changed.

 

[thorin]

1) He meant the IP your ISP assigns to your 'Home Portal' not the IPs it assigns to your home computers.
2) What model/manufacturer of 'HomePortal' are you talking about.

Thorin

 

[EricW]

HomePortal 100 from 2Wire is what it is.