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Another Newbie Networking Question -- Answered by skyking!

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I just added an SMC 700FW between my cable modem and my dual-boot ME/W2kPro PC (in preparation for adding a new PC and allowing connection to my laptop). I made the connections, booted the PC up in W2K, ran the SMC set-up, and immediately had a working connection to the internet. Later a rebooted the PC into ME, and was surprised to find that I no longer had the connection to the internet. Booted back into W2K -- interent still there. Booted back into ME, and ran the SMC set-up; it complains that the gateway address does not match and tells me to reset the router (sorry I don't have the exact wording).

I was thinking that the router would assign an address through the port to the PC each time the PC booted up, which shows how little I understand about this. 😱

I'm guessing that the assignment is only made once during the SMC set-up, and that ME doesn't know what the router's already told W2K. If so, should I be looking at assigning the same permenant address in both ME and W2K?

Any help that points me in the right direction will be greatly appreciated!



One other thing I noticed is that the speed of my internet connection seemed to increase noticeably. Is this because the router is blocking all sorts of packets that aren't addressed to my PC (and therefore reducing its workload)?

Thanks!
 
First you should know that of all windows versions Windows ME is the worse when it comes to Network.

The Routers do not care which Windows you are using. If it works with Win2K leave the Router alone.

Go over WinME Network settings; especially look slowly over the TCP/IP settings. Check how IP is obtained and WINS resolution Gateway DNS etc. To start with put all of them on Auto.
 
Boot back into ME and open a dos prompt window. Type ipconfig /release_all, hit enter, ipconfig /renew_all, enter.
If your router is doing dhcp, you should be set.
 
Originally posted by: skyking
Boot back into ME and open a dos prompt window. Type ipconfig /release_all, hit enter, ipconfig /renew_all, enter.
If your router is doing dhcp, you should be set.
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Right on the button!

Thank you very much!
 
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