- Nov 3, 2001
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OK, a friend of mine called me over to his house to help him. He has 3 PCs networked all running XP. His router went out, he bought another one, now the PCs cannot see each other.
The DSL connection works fine on all three computers and they are all on the same workgroup. The DSL connects to the main compute by USB. That computer then plugs into the WAN port of the Linksys router, the other computers are plugged into the other ports.
I got there and the computer with the DSL connection shows that connection and then a bridge with the "local area connection" and is manually confiured to 192.168.0.1 while the Linksys is giving out 192.168.1.x .
1. If I take the main computer off of the WAN port and move it to one of the other ports the internet is no longer shared.
2. If on the WAN port there is no 2-way traffic across the router.
Thanks for any help, I've never worked with DSL before, I'm used to cable that goes directly into the router.
The DSL connection works fine on all three computers and they are all on the same workgroup. The DSL connects to the main compute by USB. That computer then plugs into the WAN port of the Linksys router, the other computers are plugged into the other ports.
I got there and the computer with the DSL connection shows that connection and then a bridge with the "local area connection" and is manually confiured to 192.168.0.1 while the Linksys is giving out 192.168.1.x .
1. If I take the main computer off of the WAN port and move it to one of the other ports the internet is no longer shared.
2. If on the WAN port there is no 2-way traffic across the router.
Thanks for any help, I've never worked with DSL before, I'm used to cable that goes directly into the router.