- Aug 21, 2008
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Hi, new here, and almost 100% sure someones posted similar problems, however mine seems a little unique.
Recently I moved into a house with no internet whatsoever, so my parents called up charter and had em install cable internet. Everything seemed 100% fine until I tried to plug in the WRT54GS router. To make a long story short I'll just summarize the problem. Keep in mind theres two computers, my parents which is right beside the router and modem, and mine which has a wireless card and is upstairs.
When the network cable goes directly from the modem to parents computer, it works perfectly fine, however if it goes from modem, to router, to computer, it shows that it's connected, however we recieve no internet and aren't able to ping any outside sites.
When the router is plugged in to the modem, my computer upstairs will also get a signal saying it's connected, however it is local only.
Okay, with that in mind is there something I should do before it works? My friend has charter and I talked a bit with him, but all he could come up with is I need to open ports (which I really have no idea where to begin as I'm more or less new to networking.)
I updated the firmware, which gave no positive or negative result, and am reluctant to fiddle with any of the routers other settings until I can get advice from more experienced people.
Thanks for any help - TG
Recently I moved into a house with no internet whatsoever, so my parents called up charter and had em install cable internet. Everything seemed 100% fine until I tried to plug in the WRT54GS router. To make a long story short I'll just summarize the problem. Keep in mind theres two computers, my parents which is right beside the router and modem, and mine which has a wireless card and is upstairs.
When the network cable goes directly from the modem to parents computer, it works perfectly fine, however if it goes from modem, to router, to computer, it shows that it's connected, however we recieve no internet and aren't able to ping any outside sites.
When the router is plugged in to the modem, my computer upstairs will also get a signal saying it's connected, however it is local only.
Okay, with that in mind is there something I should do before it works? My friend has charter and I talked a bit with him, but all he could come up with is I need to open ports (which I really have no idea where to begin as I'm more or less new to networking.)
I updated the firmware, which gave no positive or negative result, and am reluctant to fiddle with any of the routers other settings until I can get advice from more experienced people.
Thanks for any help - TG