WINXP, a laptop, and a @home connection

[Slogunz]

ok heres my problem...........

I install XP on a laptop (dell latitude) ( PII, 256, 12gig). At the time i had no ethernet card for it so no drivers were added during installation. @home shows up today to install internet on my roommates computer. he leaves and her computer is working fine. i go to the store, purchase a hub and a ethernet card for my laptop, plug it in, install drivers (everything is working ok at this point). i plug @home modem into hub, at connect our computer to the hub also. i lose both conections at that point. so i decide that i'll just hook up the laptop and not worry about the network till tomorrow morning. i plug the laptop into the modem and still no net, plug in my roommates and she's fine. i call @home and the tell me that they can issue up to 3 ip's per house at no charge and that she could she my network card but i still had no connection to the internet. HELP PLZ.....

 

[Slogunz]

smump

 

[Blueoak]

You'll need to setup different IP address for each computer. If both computers are trying to use the same IP address, then only one will work at a time. I believe if your roommate turned off her computer and you hooked yours back up to the hub and rebooted it, it would be able to connect to the internet.

 

[gsaldivar]

I would go back to the store and exchange the hub you bought for a router.

I've never heard of @home giving multiple IP's out at no additional charge. Even assuming this is correct, since @home is going bankrupt you may be looking at a new ISP sooner than you think.

Basically what the router will do for you is create your own private LAN which is hidden from the ISP, allowing you to create and use as many IP numbers as you want.

At any rate, you can probably do without the router in the short-term by properly configuring your IP setup on each computer. But if your ISP changes hands, or decides to start charging for extra IP numbers (a standard practice), you may regret purchasing the hub instead of the router in the first place.

Hope this helps - Good luck!

 

[Slogunz]

well it's not @home but it is cable, i used @home because i wanted to generlize the situation, i live in canada and cabel internet is cheaper here then anywhere else world wide. right no the deal is, no payment for 6 months, then it's $20 a month. this includes upto 3 ip's per house (per paid connection).

my short term solution was to just plug in the laptop directly to the cable modem. this is where my problem lies. roommates compter works fine running win98, my laptop (XP-PRO) just won't see the internet. XP's firewall is diabled.

The ip it's giving me is nowhere close to the ip tech support had said mine was.

thx for your help so far

 

[Muadib]

You don't need an extra ip. The easy way out is to return your hub, and get a cable router. Your short term solution should have worked, but you need to use the same settings that your friend's pc is using.

 

[Blueoak]

If you don't have more than one IP, then get a cable router/hub (Netgear RT314 is pretty good) and use its NAT.

 

[Richard98]

Maybe too simple, but I assume you changed the computer name (ID) and other network settings on your laptop to be the ones provided by your cable internet company.