Do you have a broadband router? or hub? Router has 2 antennae coming off it for wireless capability? If you have a router, are any of your computers connecting to it wirelessly or are all hardwired to it?
On DIM 8200, get into network connections via control panel? Right click network connection and select Properties? Make sure both the "Show icon..." and " Notify me..." boxes are checked? Select "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" Properties? Make sure IP address and DNS Servers are being obtained automatically?
I have a broadband hub. I performed the steps you listed in your reply, but still can not access the internet. My Local Area Connection is connected according to the ballon window.
To get some more info about your network issue, please do this: Click Start->Run and type in CMD. Click OK. When the black window appears, type in ipconfig /all and press Enter. Please reply back here with all of the information which is returned including IP Address, Default Gateway, DNS servers. This information will help answer some questions about how your system is trying to get to the internet.
Hubs are dumb network devices. All they do is split up the network feed. They have no intelligence. Your cable modem supports only one intelligent network device.
For a network to work properly, you have to have a router. (Actually, there is another way, but it involves having a PC be the router, and there are drawbacks to doing this.) The router connects to the broadband modem, or, in the case of having a fiber optics DSL feed, straight into the network Ethernet feed from your provider.
The router defines your network and provides all the network intelligence for sharing your Internet connection between all of your computers and any other devices that can sit on the network, like print servers.
If what you really have is a hub, then I can guarantee that you have never had both computers on the network talking to the Internet at the same time.
Another thing you need to know, since you are using a cable modem:
Cable modems can only work with the PC they saw when they booted up. In other words, if you hook a PC to a cable modem and start the modem up, it will talk just fine. If you then disconnect the PC and connect up another PC, it won't work until you reboot the modem. Therefore, when you get a router and connect it up, you will have to reboot the modem before it will talk to the router. You should then be able to use both PCs on the network.
By the way, you can use either a wireless or wired router if both PCs are in wiring range of the router. Wireless routers usually have several wires ports as well as the antennae mentioned in another response above. However wired routers do not use anntennae, and some wireless routers have non-visible anntennae.
Please repost here when your problem is solved and let us know which solution worked for you.
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January 21st, 2006 17:00
zsmom
Do you have a broadband router? or hub? Router has 2 antennae coming off it for wireless capability? If you have a router, are any of your computers connecting to it wirelessly or are all hardwired to it?
On DIM 8200, get into network connections via control panel? Right click network connection and select Properties? Make sure both the "Show icon..." and " Notify me..." boxes are checked? Select "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" Properties? Make sure IP address and DNS Servers are being obtained automatically?
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January 21st, 2006 20:00
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January 22nd, 2006 17:00
zsmom,
To get some more info about your network issue, please do this: Click Start->Run and type in CMD. Click OK. When the black window appears, type in ipconfig /all and press Enter. Please reply back here with all of the information which is returned including IP Address, Default Gateway, DNS servers. This information will help answer some questions about how your system is trying to get to the internet.
Steve
zsmom
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January 28th, 2006 19:00
Got a router and rebooted the cable modem. Everything is working as it should. Thanks to all for your help.
Message Edited by zsmom on 01-28-2006 03:24 PM
zsmom
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January 28th, 2006 19:00
Not sure how to close a thread, but the issue has been resolved. Thanks to all who helped.
Message Edited by zsmom on 01-28-2006 03:25 PM
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January 28th, 2006 19:00
- Sid
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January 28th, 2006 19:00
Hubs are dumb network devices. All they do is split up the network feed. They have no intelligence. Your cable modem supports only one intelligent network device.
For a network to work properly, you have to have a router. (Actually, there is another way, but it involves having a PC be the router, and there are drawbacks to doing this.) The router connects to the broadband modem, or, in the case of having a fiber optics DSL feed, straight into the network Ethernet feed from your provider.
The router defines your network and provides all the network intelligence for sharing your Internet connection between all of your computers and any other devices that can sit on the network, like print servers.
If what you really have is a hub, then I can guarantee that you have never had both computers on the network talking to the Internet at the same time.
Another thing you need to know, since you are using a cable modem:
Cable modems can only work with the PC they saw when they booted up. In other words, if you hook a PC to a cable modem and start the modem up, it will talk just fine. If you then disconnect the PC and connect up another PC, it won't work until you reboot the modem. Therefore, when you get a router and connect it up, you will have to reboot the modem before it will talk to the router. You should then be able to use both PCs on the network.
By the way, you can use either a wireless or wired router if both PCs are in wiring range of the router. Wireless routers usually have several wires ports as well as the antennae mentioned in another response above. However wired routers do not use anntennae, and some wireless routers have non-visible anntennae.
Please repost here when your problem is solved and let us know which solution worked for you.
- Sid
Message Edited by splait on 01-29-2006 10:19 AM