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    Ok right now I am hating computers, almost a year ago I bought my first laptop and wanted to be able to access the internet at the same time as my dad while he was on his computer. So the logical option was to buy a router, which I did and after a bit of aggravation I was able to set up and get working. Now about a week ago my dad informs me that his internet wouldn't connect, so i'm guessing after he muddled with the settings he gave up and plugged the internet directly into the computer, leaving me without the net access. So I have spent about 2 hours each night trying everything to get this bastard connected again with no luck. My computer connects fine but his is being an absolute pain in the ass, I think because it is a mac. I even had the network thing on his computer saying it was connected and had access to the internet but when I opened firefox it wouldn't load anything. I'm just about ready to chuck his computer out the window as im getting that frustrated. Right now I hate computers and wonder why can't things just be easy with them?

    Edit: Does anyone know a good computer help site?
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    Nope. sorry. But network shit is far harder than people think it is. you might want to bite the bullet and bring in a computer dork to have a look at it. I have a router... sitting in a box for almost two years. Never could get it working right.

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    You likely have to assign it an IP...like say if your dads IP is 23.222212 then yours should automatically be 23.222212.1 and any others a slight variation of it. I think you can also assign it a distinct IP also.

    If you can find the disc/program for the router, and for the extention which is your computer and rerun it, that may help.

    Not sure on a good site tho...i'd just google and have a look.

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    So now your Windows computer is connectng to the router and getting on to the net no problem. Unless you had to actually type an IP address into your computer, it means that the router is assigning an ip address to your computer. If you go to a command prompt and type ipconfig, you will proobably see an ip address like 192.168.xxx.xxx

    Your Dad's MAC is probably not being assigned an IP addrss by the router because it is configured to get an IP addrsss from the ISP. If you are using ADSL, which is high speed through the phone lines, then that is not the same as TCP/IP. Your Dad's Mac probably needs a configuration change to work with DHCP, which is a form of TCP/IP. All this is assuming your Dad's MAC is now plugged back into the router.

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    right click on his connection and goto repair, it will release and renew your IP address.

    works for me when my router stops working for no reason.
    thats for pc though I dont know if mac will have the same option
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    Quote Originally Posted by CGM View Post
    So now your Windows computer is connectng to the router and getting on to the net no problem. Unless you had to actually type an IP address into your computer, it means that the router is assigning an ip address to your computer. If you go to a command prompt and type ipconfig, you will proobably see an ip address like 192.168.xxx.xxx

    Your Dad's MAC is probably not being assigned an IP addrss by the router because it is configured to get an IP addrsss from the ISP. If you are using ADSL, which is high speed through the phone lines, then that is not the same as TCP/IP. Your Dad's Mac probably needs a configuration change to work with DHCP, which is a form of TCP/IP. All this is assuming your Dad's MAC is now plugged back into the router.
    Yep my computer gets an IP fine, the shitty mac won't though. The only way I can get it to connect is to manualy assign the DHCP, putting in the IP, subnet mask and router. I also manually assigned the same IP to the computers MAC on the routers homepage, it says its connected to the net but nothing will load, ping, etc. It's just giving me to shits, but hey maybe it'll keep me off the net for a while.
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    try plugging it into a different port on the router
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    Quote Originally Posted by Salty View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by CGM View Post
    So now your Windows computer is connectng to the router and getting on to the net no problem. Unless you had to actually type an IP address into your computer, it means that the router is assigning an ip address to your computer. If you go to a command prompt and type ipconfig, you will proobably see an ip address like 192.168.xxx.xxx

    Your Dad's MAC is probably not being assigned an IP addrss by the router because it is configured to get an IP addrsss from the ISP. If you are using ADSL, which is high speed through the phone lines, then that is not the same as TCP/IP. Your Dad's Mac probably needs a configuration change to work with DHCP, which is a form of TCP/IP. All this is assuming your Dad's MAC is now plugged back into the router.
    Yep my computer gets an IP fine, the shitty mac won't though. The only way I can get it to connect is to manualy assign the DHCP, putting in the IP, subnet mask and router. I also manually assigned the same IP to the computers MAC on the routers homepage, it says its connected to the net but nothing will load, ping, etc. It's just giving me to shits, but hey maybe it'll keep me off the net for a while.
    Are you able to ping the router, or your own computer, from your Dad's computer?

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