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Major Technical Difficulties! Can someone help?

Postby TheLoneTerran » Sun Aug 20, 2006 5:21 pm

Alright, this is kind of long and drawn out but I will try to be as clear as possible.

We purchased a router so I can have internet access for my laptop for college because both computers will be regularly used and Internet Access is mandatory.

I follow the directions perfectly, demo, written, tech support, and the danged router still will not work.

All the proper lights come on, Power, WLAN, and Port one. But the DMZ light stays off which I believe means that it's not broadcasting the signal.

I call tech support and after about an hour, still nothing works. I go into CMD mode and type in Ipconfig but it does nothing, the cursor just moves down a row and blinks and I am unable to type anything else.

We're not sure whats going on but we have moved the router from Static IP to PPPoE. Verizon and Linksys are unable to help now. Heavy and I inspected the comp and we think the internet is actually running through the comp but Windows does not recognize it and will not let us open us.

Heavy might be able to shed some more light on the problem, I hope he posts here with what he remembers as well.

If anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated.
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Postby BigBossMonkey » Sun Aug 20, 2006 5:37 pm

ipconfig/release
ipconfig/renew

Hope it helps.
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Postby FloobieDoobie » Sun Aug 20, 2006 7:43 pm

ipconfig will hang during a DHCP lookup. It should timeout and give you an address in the 169.x.x.x scope if it can't find a dhcp server.
Do you have link on the NIC on your PC?
Have you tried using a static IP instead of dhcp?
WWFD?
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Postby TheLoneTerran » Sun Aug 20, 2006 8:41 pm

It is fixed now, it took several hours but it's fixed, for some reason it was set on PPPoE and had an Automatic Config-DHCS coding.
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