Sounds to me like your laptop is being assigned an IP address by the cable
modem instead of the router. Do you have a cable modem that has wireless
support? If so that is probably the cause.
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Sounds to me like your laptop is being assigned an IP address by the cable
modem instead of the router. Do you have a cable modem that has wireless
support? If so that is probably the cause.
yah crocket, brighthouse cable modem, a nice fast one at that to Road Runner
i have it connected to a WRT54G Linksys
I'm not sure why you would lose your lan when ever the cable goes out. Even if it was a cable modem/router combo I'd think lan would still stay up but you just wouldn't be able to connect to the internet.
The more important issue would be why is your cable going out? It should really never go out unless you are in a hurricane or they are working on the lines. Does it go out very often?
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I'm not sure why you would lose your lan when ever the cable goes out. Even if it was a cable modem/router combo I'd think lan would still stay up but you just wouldn't be able to connect to the internet.
The more important issue would be why is your cable going out? It should really never go out unless you are in a hurricane or they are working on the lines. Does it go out very often?
yah , every couple days it will flicker, sometimes i have to turn the modem & router on and off
You are getting your Internet connection from your cable company and you don't understand why your router doesn't work when your cable goes out?
The local Lan should still stay up even if it's not connected to the internet. Computers that are networked together don't have to have internet to be able to talk to each other.
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I have issues with my wrt54g too sometimes. I have to reboot it to get back online. You sure its not just the router dropping all connections rather than the cable going out? Like are your connected lights lit up on the modem, but you lose internet?
I have issues with my wrt54g too sometimes. I have to reboot it to get back online. You sure its not just the router dropping all connections rather than the cable going out? Like are your connected lights lit up on the modem, but you lose internet?
Very similar. I think this is what happens, cable modem loses the internet for a minute or 30 seconds, then my router loses the cablemodem, then when the cable modem comes back to life it cant find the router.
But none of the above should affect my laptop connecting to the router.
I'm not really worried about loosing internet every now and then. BUT my security system uses ip cameras on my network and the pc I connect to this syestem is my wireless laptop.
Yea the router shouldn't go down.. maybe go and pick up one at best buy or somewhere local and it it doesn't solve the issue take it back.. lol
Routers are so cheap now you can normally pick one up well under a hundered. Also if yea need any help on the cable stuff let me know, I know a thing or two about that, can probably get it fixed for you. You can hit me on ICQ if yea want sometime.
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