HALP!

[yh125d]

Yesterday, the internet and phone at my house went out all of a sudden. Since this is an isolated outage, AT&T won't send a crew out to fix it until Monday >(

My neighbor's is working fine, so I figured I'd just take my PC to his house, plug it in, and everything would be fine.

WRONG!


All I did was remove his PC and put mine in its place. I have Auto-detect LAN settings on, but it can't make a connection for some reason. I ran ipconfig in command prompt, and it gave me an IP and a subnet mask(whatever that means) but when I go into network connections, the local area connection 2 icon says "Limited or no connectvity"

The worst part, is that even if I get advice, I have to write it down, unhook my neighbors pc, put mine in, try it out, then switch pc's again if it doesnt work to get more advice. Sorry if I seem demanding, but I'm very frustrated over hours of messing around with this. The more detailed and fuller instructions you guys could give, the better.

TYVM in advance!

 

[mechBgon]

We do have a Networking forum but anyhow,

1) you are clearly addicted to teh IntarWeb

2) if you are plugging directly into his modem/gateway, it may have only one IP address available and have it "reserved" for his computer's MAC address. So when your computer comes along with a different MAC address, begging for an IP address, the modem says "sorry bro, I only have one, and it's on hold for that other computer with MAC address 00E0A938CCAF." Solution: unplug the modem/gateway, plug it in again, and see if it lets your computer have the IP address now.

 

[yh125d]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
We do have a Networking forum but anyhow,

1) you are clearly addicted to teh IntarWeb

2) if you are plugging directly into his modem/gateway, it may have only one IP address available and have it "reserved" for his computer's MAC address. So when your computer comes along with a different MAC address, begging for an IP address, the modem says "sorry bro, I only have one, and it's on hold for that other computer with MAC address 00E0A938CCAF." Solution: unplug the modem/gateway, plug it in again, and see if it lets your computer have the IP address now.

I posted in the networking forum first, but not even a single view after 30 mins

I'll try that right now

 

[yh125d]

XD!!!!!!! it works!!!!!!! thank you SO much Mech, now I can make my meeting!


I actually know quite a bit about hardware. ask me about a vid card, and i know which to buy, which is best, all that junk, but when it comes to internet, networks, routers, switches, I get confused as hell. I really need to take a class...

 

[mechBgon]

excellent