Re: Network connection issues

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Hi,

Well, if the connection works when you plug the computer directly into the
modem, then doesn't when you add the router, then therein lies the problem.
Make sure to power everything down, then bring them up in this order: modem,
router, and then the pc - waiting for each to fully power up and get
connected. Once up, try logging into the router from the pc. If it fails,
then either the router is bad or your network settings are wrong. Can you
ping the router?

As to the one machine that cannot connect directly through, try the steps
here, but it may be that the network card or its driver is bad:

How to troubleshoot TCP/IP connectivity with Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314067

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

<kaylans@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1145612321.196123.127090@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Our network was working fine for several months, but now we're having
an issue. Two of the three computers I've tried work fine if you plug
them straight into the ADSL modem, no issues at all. The minute you
plug them into the router, though, the internet stops working. If you
plug the modem straight into the router, none of the computers can
recognise that it's there, they can't connect. I'm using a D-Link
DSL-302G modem, and a D-Link DI-707P 7-port switch router.

This happened when I was away several weekends ago, and ever since it
hasn't been working. The only computer that was on it that weekend is
the one that now can't even directly connect to the modem, but that one
isn't plugged into the network while the others are trying to connect
and failing. The computers can talk to each other via the network, they
just can't talk to the modem - I can't connect one computer via the
modem and then use the router to connect the rest of the computers up,
nor can I connect the modem directly to the router and connect all the
computers through the network.

Can anyone offer any insight?

Cheers,
Kate



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