Problem Fixed Thanks to all who helped

Schola

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Ok I applied for an ethernet connection for my college. I am staying on compus. So I got the paper today that basical says, thank you for applying, here is your information. So they gave me my IP address, Gateway address and subnet mask. I have the card installed right, I used it last week at a lan party so I know it works. I am plugged into the hub which is plugged into the ethernet jack in the wall. That port that is connecting the wall and hub is set to uplink.


I entered the information under the tcp/ip settings for my network card, and the gateway under the gateway section. What do I have to do next, the college is dumb. I set Internet explorer to autodecet settings. That did not work.

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Schola
 

Wizkid

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Depending on how the wall is wired you may not have to use the uplink on the hub. Also, check if all the links lights are on on the hub.
 

Schola

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I will try without the hub and see if that works. And yes all the lights are on the hub for both my computer and my roomates. We can ping each other and all that also.

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Schola

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Have not tried pinging the gateway. Will try. Does not work either with out the hub.

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Schola

Edit: When I try to ping the gateway it says Destination Net Unrecievable

 

Lore

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A side note - don't you have a residential computing staff to assist you with matters as such?

Make sure your subnet is set up correctly. If you can ping your roommate's computer, that means your TCP/IP stack is alive and well, but the subnet may be incorrectly configured so you can't reach your gateway.

Does your roommate's computer work?
 

dc

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well, it sounds like your school just screwed up. :)

call them.

dc
 

G41184b

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I could be wrong but you might need a crossover cable to connect between the wall and the hub, do you have one or do u use a regular cat5 cable?
 

Schola

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They are kinda screwed up. I don't think we need crossover cable to connect the hub to the wall.

Schola
 

office boy

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And your sure that you have a connection light on for each port that has a cable pluged in?
 

Schola

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Yep each light is on for both his computer and mine. And when he gets stuff off my ftp, that he can see. Are computers can see each other. The light that says it is recieveing and transmitting is working. Also that light next to the uplink port is blinking like it is recieving and transmitting data

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Zeeliv

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Hrmm, If you both entered the settings just as you were given then it seems that the problem is either between the hub and the gateway somewhere (whether that be in your room or farther down), or they screwed up with the settings they gave you. Are your neighbors having any troubles? I'd give a call to whoever deals with this sort of thing at your school.
 

ERJ

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Have you tried plugging directly into the socket yet? If not, do it and then try pinging the gateway (ping x.x.x.x -l 1024 -t). The way you have it set up to the wall is right (uplink port to wall socket). Try a different cord from the uplink port to the wall. I know it sounds stupid but sometimes the easiest things give the most trouble. What OS are you running? What type of hub? You will probably also have to add some DNS settings to get DNS resolution when everything is said and done. However, that will not stop you from being able to ping the gateway.

Good luck,

ERJ
 

Schola

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Ok I will try to switch the cable that is connecting the hub and the wall and see if that makes any difference. Yes the uplink port is the one connected to the wall socket. The hub is a Netgear 10 Base 6 port ethernet hub. It was supplied by the school. I brought mine from home so I will try that one also.

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Schola


Edit: I tried switching eithernet cables for the hub to the wall. I tried a different hub. And sill nothing
 

NicColt

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How did you fix it. Sometimes when the ip number is within a certain range from one another the card won't release the ip number, you will have to refresh it from winipconfig it worked for me.