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Router Networking Issue

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imported_griffis

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I was trying to hook up a small network at my house just for two desktop computers. They are both running XP. I am using a Linksys router and one computer will work on the internet just fine but the other will not. An IP will show up on the one that is not working but the DNS suffix does not register with comcast. Is there something special i missed in order to get both of these computers to work with this router. Any help is appreciated. Thanks
 
DNS suffix is not an issue you need to concern yourself with. So your getting an internal IP from your router? Run ipconfig /all from a command prompt. Your gateway will be your router. Ping that address. Make sure you have local connectivity first. Once that is done you can being figuring out why your not hitting websites. If when you run ipconfig /all your dns IP's are not your router's address as well ping one of the DNS servers IP's. If that works ping www.google.com. Let us know how that goes.
 
I tried pinging all of the DNS addresses and received no response on the non-responding computer. It seems as if the router is not sharing the connection between both computers but with only one. Is there something that i may have not setup correctly?
 
In General you can debug the Network Settings of a computer by following these steps.

Step One. Check the Network parameters in the Computer?s Device Manager. Make sure that the drivers are installed correctly; there is No IRQ conflict, and No Ghost installation. http://www.ezlan.net/faq#ghost

Step Two Verify Basic network setting in the OS: http://www.ezlan.net/Installing#verify

If the above two Steps indicates that every thing looks good but functionally it does not work.

Step Three. Check (and repair if necessary) the Socket Layers, Winsock, and or refresh the TCP/IP Stack. http://www.ezlan.net/clean#refreshnet

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If your router has the dns settings in it's system then simply use the IP on the lan side of the router (usually 192.168.1.1) as the default gateway and as the dns server. Without any dns server address in your IP (tcp/IP) properties you wont be able to connect to the internet.

Also make sure that the computer that cant connect has an IP on the same network as the router (so it's IP should look something like 192.168.1.xx).
 
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