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?