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I am staying at my dad's until I can move back into my place in New Orleans and I was wondering if I could use his cable ethernet connection on my computer. I have it set up in his computer room next to his computer and I just figured I could unplug his ethernet and plug it into my system and I could sign onto the internet. It is giving me an error saying that the network is not configured for my computer. Does anyone know how to get around this through maybe changes settings on my computer to allow me to use his cable connection? I can just use his computer to pay bills and check my e-mail and come here to SM, but I like to download music and stuff on my computer. Is there any answer to my delema without having to call the cable company and have some technition come out and charge my dad an extra fee on his monthly bill? I can't imagine that everytime you buy a new computer that you have to contact them to have them help you sign onto the internet. So, I guess what I am trying to do is have the same connection work for both our computers.
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can u go old school with dialup?
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Originally posted by Cory
my sisters bf tried doing that with out connection. He brought over his laptop and out interent thing didnt pick it up or something. It wouldnt work. I really didnt know how to fix it man, wish i could.Comment
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I don't think I could bring myself to that point...lol. I am spoiled ya know. Anyway, I can always use his to do maintenance shit, but I wanted to use mine to download music only, which would take forever on dial-up anyway.Originally posted by num1sonComment
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Thanks anyway, amigo!!! :lm:Originally posted by JUICEComment
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You should be able to unplug your dad's ethernet connection and plug it into your computer and be off and running without any problem. I think I can help you with this - what OS do you run on your computer, XP?Comment
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Originally posted by Scrumhalf
Yep, it should be that simple. Nothing really to it. Now if you’re trying to connect to his wireless router that is a little different.Comment
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I run XP on my computer, but he runs windows 98 SE on his. Is this what the problem may be?Originally posted by ScrumhalfComment
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No, no wireless router. Just a straight ethernet coming into the back of the computer from an external cable modem. And we both have desktop systems.Originally posted by Chadd77Comment
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Cory...there shouldn't be an extra charge for the other computer on the cable bill. If he has a connection through the cable company you should be able to buy a router and some extra cable and just have them hook it up. A one time fee of probably like 50 bucks.Originally posted by CoryComment
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Cable networks are different than DSL networks. They work off the mac address on the subscribers computer as well as the mac address of the cable modem. All you need to do is go by a 4 port ethernet router that you can spoof you fathers mac address onto. Once you do that you can then plug your computer and your fathers computer into the switch and be off and running. You can also do this with any type of wireless router if you prefer to do that.Comment
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yeah man you need an ethernet router and get an extra cable so tht you can plug in both pc's at the same time. If you are going directly from the cable modem to the pc then you are probably having troulbe because there is a static ip addressed assigned to the mac address of your dads computer. An ethernet router is cheap and that will fix this problem.Comment
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Nope, shouldn't matter. The cable internet connection DOES NOT know what computer is hooked up to it, not do you need any special software, setup etc. to hook up another computer to the incoming connection. The company may come up with some BS just to get a service call and squeeze some bucks from you but don't bite. My current home network has 6 computers hooked up to it - 2 Linux boxes, 2 XP laptops, 1 Windows 2000 PC and 1 Win98 PC and they all connect to the internet and to each other just fine.Originally posted by Cory
Here's what you should do.
Hook up your computer to the connection.
Go to start > run.
1. In the box, type in: CMD and hit ENTER.
You should get an MSDOS-like command prompt that says c:\> or something like that.
2. Type in: IPCONFIG/RELEASE and hit ENTER.
Wait for a few seconds - it will think for a bit and return a bunch of things like: Ethernet Adapter Local Connection: blah blah
and IP Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where xxx should be a bunch of numbers - should be all zeros at this stage.
3. Type in: IPCONFIG/RENEW and hit ENTER.
Wait for a few seconds - it will return the same screen as before but this time, the local connection adapter will have a bunch of numbers - that's your IP address.
4. Launch your explorer or firefox or whatever and see if you can make a connection. It should work at this point.
Post or PM me if it doesn't. This shouldn't be very hard to figure out.Comment
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Try powering off the modem also.Comment
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