New Router Problems

[aces961]

So I have a router hooked up to cable internet and to two computers. The computer that I first set the cable internet up with is able to access the router information using its ip address. That computer is also being assigned a IP from the router however it can't access the internet. The other computer is accessing the internet fine. As far as I can tell the internet options and settins are the same on both computers. Zone Alarm and Norton and the Windows firewall are off on both computers and both computers are running XP Pro. Any ideas as to what the problem may be.

 

[JackMDS]

Clone the Original MAC to the Router's menu.

Switch off every thing.

Start the Cable Modem, when stable switch on the Router, and then switch on the two computers.

 

[martind1]

so the computer that was originally hooked to the modem can not access the internet behind the router, but the second computer can reach the internet from behind the router?


are you sure the ip settings are correct on the first machine?

 

[aces961]

 

[aces961]

Apparently the problem was the following. In order to install the router I had to clone the ip address of the card I installed the cable modem with. Figuring that this was the problem though I couldn't really understand why this would be the problem since the router manual instructs you to clone the mac address I just went out and bought a 5 buck ethernet card from circuit city installed it and internet works on this computer now through that card and the router. I'm still not sure how the router got released if it made the card it was installed from unable to access the internet. Then again it could be some safegaurd the cable company built in to prevent router use or something.